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It should never be forgotten that growing herbs as a commercial source of drugs is extremely risky, for two excellent reasons. The amateur may be able to raise the herbs with apparent success only to find that the essential ingredient is so sparse as not to be worth extracting. Other people, especially in Europe and Asia Minor, with centuries of experience, a better climate, and carefully selected varieties grow these medicinal herbs better and more cheaply than we can. Except for the herbs that all old-fashioned container gardens grow for sentiment because they once yielded simples, the herb gardener of today specializes in the herbs with fragrant or decorative foliage or those which contain the ingredients that no chemist has ever yet imitated-mostly essential oils. It is these that everyone wants to grow, store, and use in a variety of recipes that mark the users of them as among the gastronomically elect. As to the fragrance that comes from foliage, it is much more available and plentiful than flower fragrance, and hence more useful, but it never approaches the ravishing odors of jasmine or tuberose.
Page 1: Why we need herbs
Page 2: Reasons for Growing Herbs
Page 3: Scoffing at Herb Gardeners
Page 4: Fragrant and Useful
Page 5: Herbs as Medicine
Page 6: Herbs and Commercial Drugs
Page 7: Grown anywhere
Page 8: Fragrance of Herbs
Page 9: The soil and flavors
Page 10: Most important Herb families
Page 11: Plant Families containing
Herbs
Page 12: Oils, Flavors, and Diet
Page 13: Learning from Herb History
Page 14: Cooking with Herbs
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