* * VANISHING FLOWERS.
Much has been written in many countries about the loss of scent in musk. This inexplicable disappearance is said to be paralleled by the loss of flavour in some of the herbs, especially tarragon (which incidentally, according to one specialist, enjoys a bumper sale during Goodwood week !) A possible explanation is that Russian tarragon is grown instead of French, which is a much sharper and more " flavoursome " species. It is a herb much more freely used in France than in England, both in cookery and in salads. There is, I think, no doubt that much, perhaps most, of the tarragon sold for salads in England has lost that pervasive tartness which marked the tarragon of an earlier date. Have the professional Hampshire growers of this herb an adequate explanation ?
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