314 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



ing those rooms of which they are the greatest 

 ornament. 



There are lavender gardens of consider- 

 able extent in the neighbourhood of London, 

 and the lavender-water of British distillation 

 is now generally preferred to that of France. 



The oil made of this plant is called oil 

 of spike; but the shops generally make it with 

 turpentine, impregnated with the flowers ; 

 and the turpentine has indeed the smell, but 

 not all the virtues of the flowers commu- 

 nicated to it. The true oil of spike should 

 be made only of the flowers with water.* 



* James. 



