INDEX 



Addresses of French firms for 

 Herb, Plants, and Seeds, 20 



Alecost, or Costmary, 57, 65 



Alkanet, 145 



Angelica, 143 ; cultivation of, 144 ; 

 in ice puddings, 144 



Animals, self-cure of, 130 



Anise, 48 ; in part payment of 

 taxes, 52, 



Aniseed at drag-hunts, 57 



Antipathies of Plants, 13 



Aromatic Herbs, 47 



Art of ' Simpling/ 130 



Artemisia maritimum, or Old- 

 Woman, 122 



Aspect, 15 



Bacon, Sir Francis, on Burnet, 38 ; 

 on Saffron, 95 



Balm, 116 ; for wine and tea, 122 



Basil, 14, 100 



Basil-snuff for nervous headaches, 

 29 



Bay, 116 ; leaves in rice puddings, 

 123 



Bergamot, 107 ; in Thymol, 110 



Betony, 133, 134 



Blue Woodruff, 107 



Borage, 35, 107, 109 ; flowers 

 preserved for sweetmeats, 41 ; 

 leaves for claret-cup, 41 



Bought Herbs and Garden Herbs, 6 



Brahmins and the Tulasi Plant, 28 



Browning on Fennel, 63 



Bugloss, 132 



Bush-Basil in Fetter Lane Sau- 

 sages, 29 



Bush Sweet Basil, 25 



Calamint, 77 



Camomile, 81, 100 ; as plants' 

 physician, 85 ; as substitute for 

 grass, 84 ; Falstaff on, 84 



Camomile-tea, recipe for, 85 ; to 

 relieve neuralgia, 85 



Caraway, 48 ; at London Livery 

 Dinnei-s, 50 ; in Sauerkraut and 

 Kummel, 50 



Cardoons, 150 



Cassia, cooling effect of, 74 



Cat-Mint, 70, 107 ; as face-wash, 

 77 ; tea, 76 



Cecil, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn, His- 

 tory of Gardening, 92 



Oerfetiil, 9 



Chervil, 14, 35 ; cultivation of, 36 



Chicory, 107, 109; a Christmas 

 salad, 42 ; beauty of blossoms, 

 110; uses of, 110 



Chives, 91 ; propagation of, 92 ; 

 in sandwiches, 92 



Oiboule, 9 



Clover, Red, 132 



Colchicum, prescribed for James I. 

 by Sir TTieodore Mayerne, 96 



Colt's-foot, 133 



Coriander, 14, 48 ; in sugar-plums, 

 49 ; seeds in curry, 49 ; com- 

 pared to manna, 49 



Corn-Mint, 70 



Costmary Flowers to place in 



presses with Lavender, 65 

 Cresses, 16 



Culpepper, 4, 30, 73, 134 

 Cultivation of Angelica, 144 

 Caraway, 50 ; Chervil, 36 

 Lavender, 120 ; Mints, 78 



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