19 JULY 1940, page 13

Country Life

Medicinal Herbs HERBS, to most of us, mean mint and parsley ; chervil and tarra- gon, perhaps, to the more ambitious. Of medicinal herbs our generation knows little or nothing.......

Their Collection

All herbs and roots are required dried. The term herb means the whole plant growing above ground ; it does not include the root. The colour of such plants, cut off at ground......

The Cinema

4 , Let George Do It." At the Empire.---.. His Girl Friday." At the Regal. GEORGE FORMBY might well be described as the English Fernandel. Both in mood and in size of mouth the......

Their Prices The Current Prices Of These Roots And Herbs

must, to the lay mind, be quite staggering. Elder flowers are now quoted at 65s. per cwt., foxglove leaves 95s., marigold flowers 120S. Among the nightmares of all gardeners I......

In The Garden July Is An Excellent Month For The

sowing and planting of certain winter crops, the value of which is now so enormously increased. A new garden, a vacant piece of ground, a plot cleared of earlier crops—all these......