In My Garden Among the rarer vegetables I fancy that
purslane is beginning to rise in favour. To my palate it is very pleasant either as a cooked vegetable or in salad. Among herbs I would give a high place to hyssop, which— to some noses—has a yet more pleasant smell than thyme. It is peren- nial and no trouble. Black mint is worth growing ; and on the subject of mint I have been struck by the great difference between different strains. Some have a very much more distinctive smell than others. One correspondent—from Sheffield—alleges that this is a scentless year, that the herbs have gone the way of musk which lost its scent suddenly and mysteriously some fifteen years ago. I have not even seen the plant once grown by very many cottagers—for a good many years. So fat as my experience goes the season has been singularly fragrant all round. Incidentally what did Keats mean by the "musk-rose"? Was the doll
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