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"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."
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"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."

"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."
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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use."

"Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where."

"All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration."
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