Savory

Savory (Satureja), a genus of plants of the natural order Labiatae, nearly allied to Thyme (Thymus). The species are herbaceous and half-shrubby plants, all natives of the south of Europe and the East. The Common Savory, or Summer Savory (S. hortensis), is commonly cultivated in kitchen-gardens for flavouring dishes. It is an annual plant, $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ to 1 foot high, with lilac or white flowers, has a strong and agreeable aromatic smell, and an aromatic pungent taste, and is in common use both fresh and dried for flavouring dishes, and especially for flavouring beans. It is stomachic and tonic. Winter Savory (S. montana) is used in exactly the same way. It is a half-shrubby plant, with prickly-pointed leaves and larger flowers. Its taste is pungently aromatic. Summer savory is propagated by seed; winter savory by slips and cuttings.