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Harvesting Curing and Uses, by M. G. Kains

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Title: Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses

Author: M. G. Kains

Release Date: May 11, 2007 [EBook #21414]

Language: English

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CULINARY HERBS

Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses

By

M. G. KAINS

_Associate Editor American Agriculturist_

Ah, Zephyrus! art here, and Flora too!
Ye tender bibbers of the rain and dew,
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil,
Be careful, ere ye enter in, to fill
Your baskets high
With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines,
Savory, latter-mint, and columbines,
Cool parsley, basil sweet, and sunny thyme;
Yea, every flower and leaf of every clime,
All gather'd in the dewy morn: hie
Away! fly, fly!

--_Keats, "Endymion"_

[Illustration: Herbs and Children, a Happy Harmony]

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PREFACE

A small boy who wanted to make a good impression once took his little
sweetheart to an ice cream parlor. After he had vainly searched the list
of edibles for something within his means, he whispered to the waiter,
"Say, Mister, what you got that looks tony an' tastes nice for nineteen
cents?"

This is precisely the predicament in which many thousand people are
today. Like the boy, they have skinny purses, voracious appetites and
mighty yearnings to make the best possible impression within their
means. Perhaps having been "invited out," they learn by actual
demonstration that the herbs are culinary magicians