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By good luck, Father Benet was walking at the moment of their arrival in his potherb garden.

Cattle are fond of the herbage, and the plants are considered excellent as potherbs and for salads.

It is a sweet little cottage, with a little garden in front of it, well stored with potherbs, "gilli-flowers gentle and rosemarie;" and has a little wicket gate opening to the road.

Chili plants and Cape gooseberries abounded, and many a potherb pleasant to behold and good in a curry.

"For my part, if I were the owner of the palace, I would bid my gardener cultivate nothing but savory potherbs to make a stuffing for roast meat, or to flavor a stew with."