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MK. W. II. 13IDWELL ON SOME OBSOLETE DISHES. 
several are still cultivated, but others have fallen into disuse. Their 
names bring to our minds pleasant pictures of cosy old ladies in 
quiet manor houses, busied in making conserves and cordials, or 
■watching their drying bunches of simples. 
A List of plants considered necessary for a garden, arranged 
in classes from a manuscript of the Fifteenth century in the 
Ihitish Museum — 
Oe Herbes for Potage. 
Borage, langdabefe (buglos), vyolettes, mallowes, marcury, daunde- 
lyoun, avence, myntes, sauge, parcely, goldes (the corn marigold), 
mageroum (marjoram), ffenelle, caraway, red nettylle, oculus Christi 
(clary), daysys, chervclle, lekez, colewortes, rapez, tynie, cyves, betes, 
alysaundre, letyse, betayne, columbine, allia, astralogya rotunda, 
astralogia longa, bassillicum (basil), dylle, deteyne, hertestong, 
radiche, white pyper, cabagez, sedewalo, spynache, coliandre, 
ffoothistle (probably sowthistle, although it is placed under the 
letter F in the alphabetical list), orage, cartabus, lympens, nepte, 
dare.}'-, pacience. 
Of Herbes for Sauce. 
Hertestonge, sorelle, pelytory, pelytory of Spayne, deteyne, 
vyollettes, parcely, myntes. 
Of IIerbes for the Coppe. 
Cost, costmary, sauge, isope, rosemary, gyllope, goldez, clarey, 
mageroum, rue. 
Of Herbes for a Salade. 
Buddus of stanmarche (the plant Alexander), vyolette flourez, 
parcely, red myntes, syves (cives), cresse of Boleyne, purselane, 
ramsons, calamyntes, primerose buddus, dayses, rapounses, daunde- 
lyoun, rokette, red netelle, borage llourez, croppus of red Ifenelle, 
selbestryve, chykynwede. 
Also Herbes to Stylle (Distil). 
Endyve, rede rose, rosemary, dragans (the herb serpentine), 
skabiose, ewfrace (eyebright), wermode, mogwede, beteyne, wyldo 
tansey, sauge, isope, ersesmart. 
