SWEET LAVENDER. 



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certificate was required ; but prosecuting counsel declared that Lavender 

 was not a vegetable, as the word was generally understood. His lord- 

 ship said he did not see why the word vegetable should be limited to 

 things nice to eat. Lavender was neither animal, nor mineral, nor 

 fire, nor air, nor water, and that pretty well exhausted the natural 

 kingdom. 



