COUNTRY & GARDEN: Herbs No 14: White horehound

The Independent - London | March 4, 2000| | Copyright

PERHAPS IT'S just because I sometimes write novels that white horehound catches my fancy. It sounds to me the perfect title for a sequel to The Hound of the Baskervilles: "The Spectral case of the White Horehound." It also brings to mind an anecdote about the poet Percy Shelley's son, who kept a pack of hounds at Boscombe, his home near Bournemouth. Sir Percy had a terrible fright one evening when he looked out of his window and saw what he thought were a pack of ghost- dogs fleeing across his lawn; a guest with a playful sense of humour had taken a brush and a pot of white paint to the ...

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