24 MARCH 1923, Page 16

Pamphlets of the Whine School of Herb Growing. By Mrs.

M. Grieve, F.R.H.S. (The Whine School, Chalfont St. Peter.) Theory and practice are united, it seems, at the Whins. The reviving of such private enterprise as this for the growing, gathering and drying of medicinal herbs is a splendid idea. Not only is instruction given as to growing culinary and medical herbs, but a market is offered to individual collectors of wild plants which would otherwise be wasted. The special pamphlets on various plants are full of interesting things— quotations from old herbals, modern recipes, derivations of names, quotations from the poets, and the names of the diseases for which the plants are good. Those interested in this fascinating subject should write to Chalfont St. Peter for some of the pamphlets.