Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden; Together With Numerous Receipts From Contemporary Authorities

by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Overview

Eleanour Rohde was a well-known gardener and garden historian with a passion for herbs and herb gardens. In this 1922 book, Rohde provides readers with a complete, yet concise, guide to herbs—from creating an herb garden to using the herbs in various recipes including teas, syrups, conserves, pies, wines, waters, and perfumes. As well as illustrations of historic herbal knot gardens, the volume also contains interesting bits of herbal lore from throughout the ages. The work concludes with a chronological listing of key herbal texts from the fifteenth through the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781429010856
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	12/15/2007
Series:	Applewood Books
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eleanour Sophy Sinclair Rohde (1881 - 1950) was a British gardener, garden historian, and horticultural writer. She collected unusual herb and vegetable varieties, and also worked as a garden designer. One of her best known designs was the herb garden for Lullingstone Castle in Kent, England. Her work did much to encourage the modern popularity of herb gardens.

Read an Excerpt

...Even those of us with the smallest suburban plots can make a delightful herb garden, and no matter how tiny it is a perpetual joy. Herbs ask so little and they give so much. All that the majority of our common herbs want is a fairly poor soil (the poorer the better for the aromatic herbs) and plenty of sunlight. People who know nothing of herbs imagine that it might be a dull garden consisting of only foliage plants. But there is no blue more beautiful than that of borage, whilst valerian, mallows, marigold and the stately mullein (to mention only a few examples) make lovely splashes of colour. There need be no limit to the size of the garden, for, as one eminent herbalist tells us, there are on an average about seven hundred different remedies for most of the common ailments, but it is undoubtedly the moderate-sized garden which is the most attractive, This little book only deals with the few well-known English wild and garden herbs which every one can grow and use....(From Preface.)

Table of Contents

CONTENTS PREFACE.....vi I. OF HERB GARDENS.....i II. KNOTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE'S GARDEN.....20
III. OF SUNDRY HERBS.....29
IV. OF SALLETS.....140
V. HERB POTTAGES.....154
VI. HERB PUDDINGS.....160
VII. HERB DRINKS AND HOME-MADE WINES.....165
VIII. ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS.....187
IX. OF THE PICKING AND DRYING OF HERBS.....200
X. OF SWEET SCENTS.....206
AUTHORITIES.....220
INDEX.....225

Recipe

CONTENTS PREFACE.....vi I. OF HERB GARDENS.....i II. KNOTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE'S GARDEN.....20 III. OF SUNDRY HERBS.....29 IV. OF SALLETS.....140 V. HERB POTTAGES.....154 VI. HERB PUDDINGS.....160 VII. HERB DRINKS AND HOME-MADE WINES.....165 VIII. ADDITIONAL RECEIPTS.....187 IX. OF THE PICKING AND DRYING OF HERBS.....200 X. OF SWEET SCENTS.....206 AUTHORITIES.....220 INDEX.....225