Evening star., 1938-04-23

ulc COCI0Se nero CaIQeU, OF Tie All
Hallows' Guild, is spreading the culti-
vation Of herbs to all parts Of the
country.
The quaint garden nestles against
the temporary baptistery of the Cathe-
dral. The shadows Of only few bushes
would cover it all. But it is attractive
ly arranged and divided into three
parts by a path and stone wall, in
the center of which is stone stile.
All day long Gardener Thomas
Clark works the herbs, and fills small
;flowerpots with plants which are sold
within the baptistery to the visitors
who come to admire the garden.
Within Is minutes one morning this
week there were visitors from
Rochester, N. Y; Spokane. Wash:
New Orleans, La, and Dallas, Tex.
Each took away pot, or several pots,
Of herbs as starter for an herb garden
of his own back home.
HERBS grown by the Cathedral
are in the Metropolitan Museum
Of Art in New York City and at Wake
field. Va, where George Washington
was born. The Department of Agri-
culture is working to awaken an in
terest in herbs on national scale,
and the women who run the Cottage
Herb Garden hear continually from
garden clubs in all parts of the United
States, eager to follow the Cathedrals
lead
Herbs are easy to tend. They flower
beautifully. Their pungent favors
bring new vitality to food. They
have certain sentimental attraction
for the inhabitants of country whose
inheritance is principally English, for
gardens in England until the last few
centuries were dominated by herb
plants. They come in great variety
most of them perennial, some biennial
few annual
In the Cottage Herb Garden the per-
ennials are lemon balm, bergamot
burnet. camomile, chives, coskmary,
elecampagne, fennel, germander, scent
ed leaf geranium, Good King Henry,
horehound, hyssop, lavender. lemon
verbena. lovage, mint, mugwort, nepeta
mussini, pennyroyal, sweet marjoram,
rue, rosemary, sage, santolina Caven-
der cotton, winter savory, skirret,
sweet cicely (myrrh), sweet woodruff,
southernwood. tarragon, thyme and
wormWood.
The ANIMALS are ambrosia, sweet
basil, bush basil, coriander, cumin,
saffron and summer SAVIOR The bien-
mails are caraWay, catnip, chervil, Clary
and dill.
THE father Of the Cottage Herb Gar
den is the herb plot in the Bishops
Garden of the Cathedral, which is en-
tered through the Norman Gate, hard
by the baptistry, Its elegance. how
ever, robs it of the casual, friendly
spirit of the smaller garden of the All
Hallows' Guild, whose chairman is
Mrs. Raymond L. Wolven, daughter
q Bishop Freeman.
Brown and White-striped chipmunks
and squirrel named Herbie play
about the little garden and sit in the
crude dipping pool in the Shakespeare
Garden. 1t is pleasant spot and
true to the thought of Mr.. Boston, who
wrote:
"A garden of herbs is a garden of
things loved for themselves in their
wholeness and integrity. 1t is not a
garden of flowers. but a garden of
plants which are sometimes very lovely
flowers and are always more than flow-
ers.
1T is garden of color. seen as
part of garden life and not as its cli-
max and close; of the pleasures and re-
freshments of fragrance. of the fam
tasy and beauty of leaves, of the JOY
of symmetry and design in nature, of
that neglected delight to be found in
garden contrasts and harmonies of
green"