English Herb Gardens.With photographs by Clive Boursnell.1986.Many coloured photographs.160 p.4to.Cloth.

Contents: Foreword by Rosemary Verey/ Introduction/ The Gardens/A Glossary of Herbs/ Gardens Open to the Public/ Photographer's Notes and Acknowledgements/ Select Bibliography/ Index. - From the preface:On reflection I do not think that there has been a period in gardenhistory when the herb garden has played a more important role both ingarden design and in the use of herbs for cooking than it does today.In medieval monastic gardens the culinary herbs were grown among thevegetables, while the physic herbs were cultivated in a separate plotby the monk in charge of the infirmary. They were grown in individual,narrow, parallel, rectangular beds for ease of picking and in the caseof the medicinal herbs to help prevent unfortunate mistakes inadministering the wrong remedy.