New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-21
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rs a TALKS
HINTS EoR A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GARDEN.

HINTS FOR A KITCHEN-WINDOW GARDEN.
II is about the proper time to start kitchen
window garden for spring During the long Lenten
weeks and the spring months this garden Will
furnish most OF the herbs necessary TO give TO
soups. stews and salads the appetizing touch or
favor which is especially grateful at this season.
All dried herbs that be replaced with green
ones should be discarded and green herbs used.
Grocery stores have for several weeks shown
punches OF chives in their windows. These are
pleasant reminders OF the Holland influence OF our
city Delicate little onions were as extensively used
by the old Knickerbocker housewives as they are
now by German cooks. They may still be found
growing in old New York and Hudson River gar
dens lineal descendants from the garden stock OF
the days when the Dutch ruled New-Amsterdam
To prepare a kitchen-window garden. have q
wide shallow box fitted in sunny WINDOW. III
the sill is not wide enough 10 support the box, put
/, on stout iron brackets Let there be good drain
age II there is no box of earth In the cellar
saved for this purpose from last season. will be
necessary to get sufficient potting soil at the green
house. II the earth is already on hand. fertNze IL
well with a little guano or bone meat.
Plant in it two parsley roots and two or three
lunches of chves; These Will furnish ieT M gar :.
a most delicate and delicious plant. ana MAKES
pretty salad garnish, being more a ncate green
an excellent seasoning herb for salads IL comes
up quickly and grows rapidly from the SEQ, t
flavor IS good herb to SOW In the window -Dox
IL grows wild in some parts OF this country ana IN
England where II was formerly employed as d
aayoring herb to an old English drink known as
n cool tankard. ..,.,,.o
the famous mince OF herbs used by the FRENCH to
season cold sauces salads and similar dishes None
OF these are useful in hot cookery except TARA
eon and chives. II is difficult TO get tarragon AZ
This season The little that is sold In the market
Is I'm small punches and is raised In the hothouse'
Paragon plants cannot be purchased In the mar
ket until late in April or May when they may De
dug out of the garden 49,. -.
The use of tarragon vinegar In a salad taxes we
MACE Of the herb. The seasoning mixture OF the
i've herbs mentioned is employed in comparative
in equal quantities. and thoroughly mixed through
any salad Of green leaves or OF meat or Ish' 10
give a havorng touch. A young woman once ue-
scrlbed this mince, often used In the farisldhn
salads as the delicious little bits OF grass she
found in French salads. 49,.
Chives are used in potato soups and in Some other
hot cookery but the bouquet OF herbs USED IN
hot cookery Is quite distinct thing from Inc
.:n1ince'' or ravigote used in cold dishes Inc
'bou1uet" usually consists OF blade OF soup
which is the only hert II is always necessary
TO keep dried in the house. two cloves tnree
hra inches of parsley and a sprig OF thyme my ie
NAV he sown in the window-garden, and Is apout
the only plant in the bouquet that can De raised
in this way. . .o. ons saoa can
he sI,nplied from the dried stock until II Is tme
70 raise them in the garden they are use9 IN IN
English stuff1ngs for meat ana poultry, anu !.
sausages therefore they are not often neeoen a.
this season OF the year-such dishes Deohs ~ ~
cold month"; and not 10 spring II does not pay 70
reisa salad herbs now unless one Is fortunate
enough to possess a small hothouse LOT io'oi's
early vegetables and SALADS