This section is from the book "Cooking Vegetables. Practical American Cookery", by Jules Arthur Harder. Also available from Amazon: The Physiology Of Taste.
Nepeta. Katzenkraut.
No. 406. - This is a hardy perennial plant, well known as a mild nervine for infants. The plant should be pulled up by the roots when in full flower, and dried in the shade.
No. 407. - The seeds may be sown in drills, twenty inches apart, either in the fall or in spring.
 
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