04 March 2017

Journal of Miss Lottie M. Davis - March 1935 - April 1935

Massanutten [Peaked Mountain] in Distance
Journal March – April 1935
Page 114
March 1935
  3 Mar 1935 – Miss Minnie Nichols died sixty-five years.
  2 Mar 1935 –                       Shifflett died.
  7 Mar 1935 – Mr. Painter moves to Mrs. Baugher.
  8 Mar 1935 – Doughnut day at Miss Brill made.
  2 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Walter Miller operated on.
  2 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Nan Offenbacker Sale.
  8 Mar 1935 – Mr. Wilmer Miller died age sixty-five years.
  9 Mar 1935 – Mr. W.E. Lucas taken to Hospital.
  3 Mar 1935 – Phillis Monger operated on Charlottesville.
Newspaper Headlines 
Page 115
March 1935
29 Mar 1935 – Mr. W.E. Lucas left Hospital.
31 Mar 1935 – Mr. Irvin Meadows funeral at Shenandoah.
30 Mar 1935 – Ed McDonal had arm taken off.
12 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Jack Dearing died age eighty-five years buried at Koontz.
     Mar 1935 – Mrs. Stella Meadows shot at Jollett.
12 Mar 1935 – Dr. Foster goes to Stanley.
14 Mar 1935 - Mr. Geo Deavers died age eighty-one years.
16 Mar 1935 – Graney went to see Mr. John Chapman.
17 Mar 1935 – Went to cemetery.
17 Mar 1935 – Scarf in Sunday room.
17 Mar 1935 – C. [Communion?] plate to Sunday room.
1935 Convertible
17 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Ella Hammers operated on.
  8 Mar 1935 – Anna Mae Huddle married Wilson Morris.
20 Mar 1935 – Big time at Brills house.
23 Mar 1935 – Kyger get his third car.
25 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Ernest Meadows died – age twenty-eight years.
27 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Ernest Meadows  funeral.
15 Mar 1935 – Mr. Painter moved at Baughers.
30 Mar 1935 – Dr. Miller stop by.
31 Mar 1935 – Mrs. Thomas and family came down.
Page 116
April 1935 –
  3 Apr 1935 – Mr. Thomas Hensley son Isaac died age thirty-two died in Ohio.
  3 Apr 1935 – H.S. Guill get six months.
  8 Apr 1935 – Snowed all day Mon[day].
  8 Apr 1935 – Margaret Robinson married Monday.
  9 Apr 1935 – Kyger get living room  Suite.
     Apr 1935 – Minnie Plum new baby boy 11 lbs.
  5 Apr 1935 – Mr. Hitt moved out of Powell house.
  9 Apr 1935 – Started centerpiece.
10 Apr 1935 – Mr. John Chapman went to hospital.
     Apr 1935 – Harold [Davis] get car.
14 Apr 1935 – Mr. Ben Ware died in car age fifty-three years.
Snow and More Snow 
16 Apr 1935 – Snowed and real cold.
16 Apr 1935 – Third bottle of Tonic in Hospital.
15 Apr 1935 – Annie Hutton in Hospital.
16 Apr 1935 – Guy and Vela Maude [Monger - children of Clark and Lelia Davis Monger] - converted at U.B. Church on Tuesday night.
14 Apr 1935 – Dr. Miller goes away.  Sunday.
12 Apr 1935 – Alfred Powell married to Mrs. R.
     Apr 1935 – Miss Lorene Rush married.
15 Apr 1935 – Finished B. bedspread $10.00.
26 Apr 1935 – Beulah paid $6.00 on bedspread.
20 Apr 1935 – Mrs. [?]
26 Apr 1935 – Uncle Fount Banks died.
28 Apr 1935 -  Aunt Sis was here Sunday.
25 Apr 1935 – Mr. Kyger get General election.

26 February 2017

Invasive Plants Which Are Not Native to The United States

Pueraria montana var. lobata (Kudzu)

There are eighty known species which have been brought to the United States that are now known to be invasive and detrimental to our soil. How many do you have in your yard, garden or fishpond?  They are as follows:
Acer platanoides (Norway Maple)
Aegopodium podagraria (Goutweed)
Ailanthus altissima (Tree of Heaven)
Akebia quinata (Chocolate Vine also known as Five-leaved Akebia)
Albizia julibrissin (Silk Tree also known as Mimosa Tree)
Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard)
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Porcelainberry)
Aralia elata (Japanese Angelica-tree)
Arthraxon hispidus (Small Carpetgrass)
Arum italicum (Italian Arum)
Bambusa vulgaris (Common Bamboo)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese Barberry)
Broussonetia papyrifera (Paper Mulberry)
Buddleja davidii (Orange-eye)
Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos (Spotted Knapweed)

Canadian Thistle

Cirsium arvense (Canada Thistle)
Clematis terniflora (Sweet Autumn Virgins-bower)
Cynanchum louiseae (Black Swallow-wort)
Cynanchum rossicum (Pale Swallow-wort)
Dioscorea polystachya (Chinese yam)
Elaeagnus umbellata (Autumn Olive)
Epipactis helleborine (Broadleaf Helleborine)
Euonymus alatus (Winged Burning Bush)
Euonymus fortunei (Winter Creeper)
Fallopia japonica (Japanese Knotweed)
Ficaria verna (Fig Buttercup)
Glechoma hederacea (Ground Ivy also known as Gill-over-the-ground)
Hedera helix (English Ivy)

Orange Daylily

Hemerocallis fulva (Common Daylily also known as Orange Daylily)
Heracleum mantegazzianum (Giant Hogweed)
Hesperis matronalis (Dame’s Rocket)
Humulus japonicus (Japanese Hop)
Hyacinthoides hispanica (Spanish bBuebells)
Hydrilla verticillata (Hydrilla)
Kalopanax septemlobus (Castor Aralia)
Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel)
Lespedeza cuneata (Chinese Lespedeza)
Leucojum aestivum (Summer Snowflake)
Ligustrum obtusifolium (Border Privet)
Ligustrum ovalifolium (California Privet)
Ligustrum sinense (Chinese Privet)
Ligustrum vulgare (European Privet)

Japanese Honeysuckle

Lonicera japonica (Japanese Honeysuckle)
Lonicera maackii (Amur Honeysuckle)
Lonicera morrowii (Morrow’s Honeysuckle)
Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife)
Mahonia bealii Lleatherleaf Mahonia)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese Stiltgrass)
Miscanthus sinensis (Japanese Silvergrass)
Morus alba (White Mulberry)
Murdannia keisak (Marsh Dewflower)
Myriophyllum aquaticum (Parrot-feather)
Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian Water-milfoil)
Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. undulatifolius (Wavyleaf Basketgrass)

Nodding Star of Bethlehem 

Ornithogalum nutans (Nodding Star-of-Bethlehem)
Ornithogalum umbellatum (Sleepydick)
Paulownia tomentosa (Princess Tree)
Perilla frutescens (Beafsteak Plant)
Persicaria perfoliata (Mile-a-Minute Weed)
Phellodendron amurense (Amur Corktree)
Phragmites australis (Common Reed)
Phyllostachys aurea (Golden Running Bamboo)
Pseudosasa japonica (Arrow Bamboo)
Pueraria montana var. lobata (Kudzu)
Pyrus calleryana (Callery Pear)
Quercus acutissima (Sawtooth Oak)
Rhodotypos scandens (Jetbead)
Ripidium ravennae (Ravenna-grass)
Rosa multiflora (Multiflora Rose)
Rubus phoenicolasius (Wineberry)
Salvinia molesta (Giant salvinia also known as  Kariba-weed or as Water Fern)
Schoenoplectus mucronatus (Bog Bulrush)
Spiraea japonica (Japanese Meadowsweet)
Trapa natans (Water Chestnut)
Urtica dioica (European Stinging Nettle)
Viburnum dilatatum (Linden Viburnum)
Vinca minor (Common Periwinkle)
Wisteria floribunda (Japanese Wisteria)
Wisteria sinensis (Chinese Wisteria) 

19 February 2017

Journal of Miss Lottie M. Davis - January - February 1935

Welcome 1935 [Internet Photo]
January 1935
Page 112
January 1935
 21 Jan 1935 – Mrs. Josah Dean came home.
 12 Jan 1935 – Ora Dean married.
      Jan 1935 – Mr. Underhill died.
   6 Jan 1935 – Mrs. Dewl          died age eighty years.[Spaces are in the original entry.]
 10 Jan 1935 – L.A.S. had doughnut day –first one.
   6 Jan 1935 – Ruby Chapman married.
   5 Jan 1935 – Mr. Floyd Leap got new car.
   6 Jan 1935 – Went to Sunday rooms.
 13 Jan 1935 – Bill [Davis] an Clarine spent day here.
 12 Jan 1935 - Lelia [Davis Monger] had shower for Mrs. Marie Monger Painter.
 15 Jan 1935 – Mr. Thurston Sellers died age sixty-two years.
 14 Jan 1935 – Mr. Hubert Miller in Hospital.
 18 Jan 1935 – Mr. Jim Saums foot taken off.

Driving in 1935's Snowstorm [Internet Photo]
 23 Jan 1935 -  Big snow.
 28 Jan 1935 -  Eleven below zero here.
 27 Jan 1935 – Mr. Hubert Miller died age sixty-five years.
 29 Jan 1935 -  Mr. Hubert Miller funeral.
 23 Jan 1935 – Snowed all day.
 21 Jan 1935 – Paid for window at U.B. Church.
 23 Jan 1935 – Mr. Jessie Saums died.
 30 Jan 1935 – Mrs. Harper Sinmett died at Hospital age forty-four.
 29 Jan 1935 – Mr. John Hensley died age eighty years died at Lacy Spring Funeral McGaheysville.
 29 Jan 1935 – Mr. Earman died age eighty-seven years.
February 1935
  3 Feb 1935 – Mrs. Bud Offenbacker died age eighty-seven years.
  3 Feb 1935 – Louise Herring operated on.
  5 Feb 1935 – Lelia [Davis Monger] joined Ladies Aid[e].
  8 Feb 1935 – Doughnut day here made $28.28.
 10 Feb 1935 – Mr. Tom Yancey died age sixty-five years.
 11 Feb 1935 – Mrs. Mollie Cook died age sixty-five years.
 16 Feb 1935 – Grany went to McGaheysville to a B.
 17 Feb 1935 – Mrs. Eva Fisher Stanley new boy baby.
 21 Feb 1935 – Mrs. Ora Dean Hensley went to Hospital.

1930's Covered Dish Dinner  [Internet Photo]
 21 Feb 1935 – Covered dish supper made at Mrs. G. Lamb.
 25 Feb 1935 – Mrs. Alice Keezle Gillan operated on at R.M.H[ospital] Monday.
      Feb 1935 – Boyon Keezle operated on.
 25 Feb 1935 – Ruth Baugher came over with.
      Feb 1935 – Mr. J.E.H. Hughs operated on.
      Feb 1935 – Mr. Roy Kyger with taken out.

14 February 2017

Happy Valentine's Day

Is Valentine’s Day Really What You Think It Is???
Valentine’s Day is many things to many people. We as Americans believe it to be a day honoring love and romance.  Tokens of love, candy of all types, dinners in fancy restaurants, red roses, special music, poetry, and the list goes on, are given in abundance.

Regardless of whether you love Valentine’s Day, are still on the fence about it, or you hate it, you most probably will never believe how Valentine’s Day began.  Let’s journey back into time to take a brief look at how this celebration of “love” actually started.

To do this, we must go back into time to third century Rome, where we learn of a Bishop Valentine, a Christian priest, who was born and lived in Interamna
St. Valentine

While on a temporary stay in Rome, this man was imprisoned, tortured, and martyred on the 14th of February in the year, 273 [For more detailed information please see the official English version, San Valentino: Biografia.. Diocese of Terni, which was written in 2009 most probably after a very careful examination of all earlier sources.]

There are many legends attributed to this mysterious saint. One of the most common story about St. Valentine is that at one point in his life, as the former Bishop of Terni, Narnia and Amelia, he was placed on house arrest under Judge Asterius. While discussing religion and faith with the Judge, St. Valentine pledged the validity of Jesus. The judge immediately put Valentine and his faith to the test.

Judge Asterius presented St. Valentine with his blind daughter whom many accounts suggest was adopted and challenged St. Valentine to restore her sight. If he succeeded, the judge vowed to do anything St. Valentine would choose for him to do. Placing his hands onto her eyes, Valentine restored the child's vision.

Judge Asterius was humbled and obeyed Valentine's requests.  The Judge broke all the idols around his house, fasted for three days and was baptized, along with his family and the entire forty-four members of his household. The judge then freed all of the Christian inmates under his control.
Christian Being Marytered
We must remember that compared to Rome’s chaos and heathenism, Christianity was very peaceful and orderly. But for Roman politicians, the religion was a threat to their authority. Roman law declared Christianity a crime, and practicing Christians were punished in the worst ways imaginable.

While Roman police conducted merciless witch hunts of Christian followers, Emperor Claudius was still fighting off invaders at Rome’s borders. He needed all the manpower he could get. He declared a ban on all marriages, so he’d have more men ready to fight.

Again, St. Valentine was a Roman priest who felt obligated to help his fellow Christians—even if it threatened his very own life. According to legend, he defied Roman law by aiding Christians fleeing persecution, while he continued to marry Christian couples in secret.

In another version, St. Valentine was sent to Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius Gothicus (Claudius II). According to what is believed to be the first representation of St. Valentine, the Nuremberg Chronicle, St. Valentine was a Roman priest martyred during Claudius' reign. The story relates how St. Valentine was imprisoned for marrying Christian couples and aiding Christians who were being persecuted by Claudius in Rome.


As both of these acts were considered serious crimes, a relationship of sorts developed between the saint and the emperor.  The matter came to a head when St. Valentine attempted to convince Claudius II of the validity of Christianity.

Claudius became enraged and sentenced St. Valentine to death.  Emperor Claudius II commanded St. Valentine to renounce his faith.  St. Valentine refused to do so and was executed [beaten senseless with clubs, stoned and then beheaded] outside the Flaminian Gate on the 14th of February 269.


In many tales of St. Valentine's life, the date of his execution varies from the year 269 as above to 270, 273 or 280. Other depictions of St. Valentine's arrests tell that he had secretly married couples so husbands wouldn't have to go to war. Another variation of the legend of St. Valentine says he refused to sacrifice to pagan gods, was imprisoned and while imprisoned he healed the jailer's blind daughter. On the day of his execution, he left the girl a note signed, "Your Valentine."

It is known that the gate now called Porta del Popolo was previously known as, Porta Valetini.

The romantic nature of Valentine's Day may have been derived during the Middle Ages, when it was believed that birds paired by couples in mid-February.  According to English 18th-century antiquarians Alban Butler and Francis Douce, Valentine's Day was most likely created to overpower the pagan holiday, Lupercalia.  Regardless, since the High Middle Ages, February 14th is associated with a tradition of courtly love and recognized as a day set aside for romance, devotion and love. 


It is known that many of the legends which characterize Saint Valentine were invented in the fourteenth century in England, mostly by Geoffrey Chaucer and his circle of friends, when the feast day of February 14 first became associated with romantic love [Jack Oruch identified the inception of this possible connection in Butler's Lives of the... Saints, 1756, and Douce's Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Mannersee Oruch, Jack B. (July 1981). "St. Valentine, Chaucer, and Spring in February". Speculum56 (3): 534. doi:10.2307/2847741.]

Oruch charges that the traditions associated with "Valentine's Day," documented in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parlement of Foules and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, did not exist before Chaucer [Oruch, Jack B. (July 1981). "St. Valentine, Chaucer, and Spring in February". Speculum56 (3): 534–565. doi:10.2307/2847741].  He goes on to argue that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars.
Saint Valentine of Terni Oversees the Construction of His Basilica at Terni
In the French 14th-century manuscript illumination from a Vies des Saints, Saint Valentine, Bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at Terni; there is no suggestion that the bishop was a patron of lovers [BN, Mss fr. 185. The book of Lives of the Saints, with illuminations by Richard de Montbaston and collaborators, was among the manuscripts that Cardinal Richelieu bequeathed to the King of France].

During the Middle Ages, it was believed that birds paired in mid-February. This was then associated with the romance of Valentine. Although all these legends may differ in ways, Valentine’s day is widely recognized as a day for romance and devotion.

Regardless of who he was, St.Valentine really did exist, as archaeologists have unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to St. Valentine. In 496 AD Pope Gelasius marked February 14th as a celebration in honor of his martyrdom.
 
Skull of St. Valentine
Relics of St. Valentine can be found all over the world. A flower-crowned skull of St. Valentine can be found in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. In 1836, other relics were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina and were identified as Valentine's. These were transported for a special Mass dedicated to those young and in love.

Fr. John Spratt received a gift from Pope Gregory XVI in 1836 containing a "small vessel tinged" with St. Valentine's blood. This gift now stands placed in Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, Ireland.

Other alleged relics were found in Prague in the Church of St Peter and Paul at Vysehrad; in the parish church of St. Mary's Assumption in Chelmno Poland; at the reliquary of Roquemaure in France; in the Stephansdom in Vienna; in Balzan in Malta and also in Blessed John Duns Scotus' church in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland.

St. Valentine is the Patron Saint of bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travellers, and young people.

In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church removed St. Valentine from the General Roman Calendar, because so little is known about him. However, the church still recognizes him as a saint, listing him in the February 14 spot of Roman Martyrolgy.
 Happy Valentine’s Day

05 February 2017

Journal of Miss Lottie M. Davis


November 1934 - December 1934
Elkton - McGaheysville area from Skyline Drive
November 1934
Page 110
  4 Nov 1934 – Went on Skyline Drive.
  6 Nov 1934 – Got thread for B. [Bed] Spread.
  6 Nov 1934 -  Harold get new scale.
  8 Nov 1934 – Harold new phone.
10 Nov 1934 – Miss Helen Miller married.
18 Nov 1934 – Grany went to Chas. Leap.
18 Nov 1934 – Lelia’s children and I went on mountain.  [Children of Lelia Davis and her husband Clark Monger].
12 Nov 1934 – Started B.[Bed] Spread.
16 Nov 1934 – Alma Hammer in Hospital.
21 Nov 1934 – Mrs. J.L. Maiden died age seventy-four years.
20 Nov 1934 – Mr. Dan Zetty died.
29 Nov 1934 – Mrs. Will Herring died age fifty-nine years.
Miss Lottie M. Davis
Page 111
December 1934
 1 Dec 1934 – River out of banks . Truck overturned.
 3 Dec 1934 – Graney and Harold had settled up.
 5 Dec 1934 – Paid L.H. Brice $12.50 for coal.
 6 Dec 1934 – N. Wilson Davis  Store burned. Thursday.
11 Dec 1934 – Got hog from Uncle Luther 276 lbs.  $18.94
10 Dec 1934 – Snowed all day Monday.
13 Dec 1943 – Mrs. Helen Downey Bear new baby.
14 Dec 1934 – Mrs. Helen Downey Bear baby died.
12 Dec 1934 – Miss Josephine Hammer died age seventy-eight.
  8 Dec 1934 – Clark [Monger] get off.
21 Dec 1934 – Shenandoah School House burned.
14 Dec 1934 – First supper in new church. $106.00.
24 Dec 1934 – Helen D[owney] Bear came home.
27 Dec 1934 – Clark and Lelia [Monger] family takes supper with us. 
31 Dec 1934 – Sarah Morris died age twenty-three.

29 January 2017

A Biblical Garden



  Our Valley’s first settlers remembered their very own grandparents telling them of the terrible times their family had endured in Europe, of the disease and famine which had occurred during the Thirty Years War or of some equally devastating event.  It was as real to them as the family stories your own grandparents shared with you.

I have always felt that the remembrance of this awful time and the knowledge that their family had survived, gave courage to those individuals who faced the wilderness and the many dangers lurking within.  Perhaps Indian attacks did not seem quite so bad when compared with the things they knew their families had dealt successfully with in the past. After enduring such horror in Europe and living with constant danger on the frontier, a strong religious belief had developed. This belief system had been transferred to their descendants.  

Many people who live in our beautiful Shenandoah Valley do not realize that many of their very own ancestors were personal friends of Martin Luther, but they most certainly were just that.

 Our ancestors who fled Europe, came to Virginia to more freely practice their deep felt religious beliefs.  Once here, they found that the Church of England demanded the right to control those beliefs by taxing them for the support of the Church of England and also by insisting that only a minister of the Church of England could lawfully perform religious duties. Because of these restrictions, many individuals eventually settled on the frontier.  

The area west of the Blue Ridge within the Shenandoah Valley allowed them to practice their faith as they believe God would have them do. One of the main reasons the American Revolution was fought was to guarantee that right for all time. The Bible has been a valued part of our Shenandoah Valley heritage since the earliest days of settlement.  Gardening has also been a treasured part of life here in our Shenandoah Valley. It is only natural that we consider planting a physical or living garden in honor of both of these traditions.

Alliums = Onions and Garlic
 Plants as found in the Bible:
 Alliums  – Numbers 11:5 – 6.  We remember the fish we ate in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leaks, and the onions and garlic. But now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, besides this manna, before our eyes."

Anemones (Lilies of the field) - Matthew 6:28 -29. "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, and all of his glory, was not arrayed like one of these."

Coriander — Exodus 16:31. “Now the house of Israel called its name Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey."
Saffron Crocus
Crocus —  The Song of Solomon 4:14.  “Spikenard and saffron (crocus) calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices."

Cumin - Matthew 23:23. "While unto you, have omitted the weighter matters of the law.”
Dill
Dill — 23:23. Dill is called Anise in the Bible.
 Fig - Malachi 4:33-4.  "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree."

HyssopExodus 12:22. "And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and strike the lintel and the two side posts."
Mint
Mint - Matthew 23:23. See above under Cumin. Pomegranate - 11 Chronicles 4:13.  "And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates of each wreath."

Rue - Luke 11:42. "But woe to you, Pharisees!  For you tithe mint and rue and all manners of herbs, and pass over justice in the love of God."

Wormwood (Artemisia) - Jeremiah 9:15. "Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink."

Beginning in Song of Solomon 4:12 and continuing we learn of the peace and purity of mind which an enclosed garden can give.  A beautiful garden can be planted   using these herbs.  Perhaps you might want to use a piece of statuary or birdbath somewhere in your garden or yard or perhaps even a fish pond to help feed and water the “birds of the air.”
 
Williamsburg's Bruton Parish Church
There are many good examples of Biblical gardens throughout our nation. Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg has a lovely herb garden sponsored and maintained by the ladies of the church.

When beginning to use herbs in cooking, it is best to start slowly and then after you are familiar with the taste, try combinations. 

Fresh herbs can be cut and dried to be stored in airtight containers in a dry dark place. When you use dried herbs, you most probably will want to cut the quantity in half of the amount of fresh herbs you normally use.

Herbs are best added to long, slow cooked food such as soups during the last 15 minutes. If the food is uncooked or cold, the sooner they are added, the better.

A few herbs which were used during Bibical times that you may be familiar with  are as follows:
Basil
 Basil - has a spicy, clove-like taste and scent. Use it with zucchini and in tomato dishes, soups, and stews. It can be used in spaghetti and salads.

Coriander - seeds are crushed and added to fruits, peas, and stews.

Rosemary - a strong more distinctive herb. It goes with beef, lamb, chicken and turkey. Boil it with potatoes, toss it into the peas and cauliflower, and minestrone type soups.  A sprig can be placed in spinach while it is being cooked.

Thyme - wonderful in meat and poultry.  It's an aromatic herb with many uses. onions and eggplant.

Lemon thyme - a great herb to even use fresh in salads.  Simply strip the leaves from the stem and sprinkle over fresh salad greens.

Tarragon - another herb that is a favorite of mine. Use only French tarragon for cooking. The Russian variety has little taste and is more for floral arrangements. French tarragon is used in herb vinegars, salad dressings, herb butters, spreads, fish, shellfish, and poultry of all types.

Recipes For Your Enjoyment!
Herb Butter - One stick butter or margarine softened One-half teaspoon lemon juice Three tablespoons fresh herbs chopped very fine Combine ingredients and mix well. Herb butters may be refrigerated for two weeks or stored in the freezer.
Herb Vinegars
Herbal vinegar -1 cup of a fresh herb. You may add more as you develop a taste for the strength that you prefer. Add clean herbs leaves to 1 gallon of white vinegar. Keep in a warm place for three weeks (sun’s okay}. Strain through a cheesecloth and then bottle. You may add sprigs of fresh herbs in the bottles for visual appeal.  You can also blend several herbs to get a flavor you and your family will enjoy. If you choose to seal these bottles with corks, they can be dipped in hot wax and tied with raffia. Label with a pretty tag.

Infusions of Herbs - Infusions are wonderful for adding instant flavor to teas and fruit drinks. They may be frozen in ice cube trays and stored in the freezer. For each cup of fresh leaves add one cup of water. Simmer over moderate heat until hot. Remove from heat and let cool. Strain off liquid and press out leaves until dry. Will keep in the refrigerator for one week or in the freezer for a year-round use.
Lemon and Mint Ice Cubes
Mints, Lemon Balm, Lemon Verbena, etc. are all great to use. By using cubes made of these herbs, drinks do not become diluted by water as from plain ice cubes. Cherries and other fruits can also be added in the cubes for ice rings which can be made for punch bowls. Even a block can be frozen for use in a pitcher by using a clean milk carton for a freezing container. To keep pieces from floating, add fruits in layers, cover with liquid and then freeze before adding more fruits and herbs.