The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Clary
CLARY.
Sálvia Sclàrea.—Orvale, Fr.—Scharlachkraut, Ger.
A native of Italy and Syria, and long known in the English garden, where it is a hardy biennial. It is easily raised from seed, which should be sown in March, in any bed or border of common earth. Clary was formerly much used in cookery, but it is not now in much repute. A wine is sometimes made from the herb in flower, which has a flavor not unlike Frontigniac.