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Lavender. Lave^idula^ 



A COMMON plant in our gardens, native of 

 the warmer parts of Europe; it is of a shrubby 

 nature in the stem^ but the rest is herbaceous it 

 grow^ayard high. The trunk, or main stem, is 

 thick, woody, lirm, and covered with a whitish 

 bark. The j^oung shoots from this, are tender and 

 greenish ; and on. these stand the leaves. Thej are 

 long, narrow, and of a pale green colour, and standi 

 two at each joint. The stalks which bear th^ 

 flowers, are square, green, and naked ; the flow- 

 ers stand in short spikes, or ears ; they are small, 

 bliie, and very fragrant; the cups of the flowers 

 are whitish. 



These flowers are the part used ; they are good 

 against all disorders of the head and nerves. They 

 may be taken in the form of tea. The famous 

 spirit of lavender called palsy drops, and the sweet 

 lavender water are made with them. The spirit 

 of lavender called palsy drops is thus made best. 



Put into a small still a pound of lavender flowers, 

 and five ounces of the tender tops of rosemary, put 

 to them five quarts or'common melasses spirit, and a 

 quart of water : distil ofi* three quarts ; put to this 

 cinnamon and nutmegs, of each three quarters of 

 an ounce, red sanders wood half an ounce ; let 

 these stand together a week, and th^n strain ott the 



spirit. 



The lavender water is thus made- Put a pound 

 of fresh lavender flowers into a still with a gallon 

 of melasses spirit^ "and draw off five pints. This 

 U lavender water. 



Lavender Cottow. Abrotonumfixmina. 



A LITTLE shrubby plant, frequently wild ia 



