Medicinal garden

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The Medicinal garden

In the Dark Ages the monks had medicinal gardens that were agreeable to walk in, aside from their primary reason for being. A medicinal garden nowadays would scarcely sound right excepting as a reserved space in a botanic garden.

Yet the garden of simples, which is the same thing, is a too-cherished memory of an age when life was less complicated to be wholly neglected where there is room for it as a special retreat. There would be no obligation, even on the part of a New England conscience, to go "simpling" in it; the flowers properly entering into it would make it a gay enough place in which to ramble for the sheer joy of beholding. Any of the "worts," which are legion, may go into it, and there will be blossoms from the coltsfoot of March to the monkshood of October.