GROWING HERBS WITH MARGARET ROBERTS by Margaret Roberts

This is a companion volume to Margaret Roberts' Book of Herbs, and although its main purpose is to instruct us on how to design a herb garden and grow our own fragrant, culinary and medicinal herbs, much of the text is devoted to their fascinating uses.

There are recipes for unusual culinary delights such as marigold cakes, chive blossom vinegar, horehound candy, lucerne summer drink and nasturtium sauce.  There are step by step instructions on how to make insect repellent sachets, pot-pourris and beauty aids like dandelion freckle bleach and watercress complexion cure.

Natural, easily applied country remedies are listed, among them convalescent broth, corn cures, sunflower cough syrup, eczema wash and violet nerve tonic.  A herb and ailment reference chart gives effective remedies for everything from anaemia to warts.

The finely detailed colour illustrations and thumbnail sketches are by Joan van Gogh.  They are botanically accurate to ensure instant identification of species described in the text.

Hard cover, good condition.  209 pages.