1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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Rosemary, by themselves, or mixed with Lavender Penny royal and Lavender; Horehound; Trefoil flowers ; Sorrel ; Angelica ; Sage ; Cowslips ; and recommends a drink, which he occasionally used himself, made of Ground Ivy and stick Liquorice. This roused the ire of no less a person than Dr. Samuel Johnson, who, as "a hardened and shameless

A TEA GARDEN :

George Morland.

who has for many years diluted his meals

tea drinker ;

with only the infusion of this fascinating plant ; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnights, and with tea welcomes the morning," ^ could not sit still, and have his favourite beverage abused. So he wrote a review whose kettle has scarcely time to cool ;

1 His friend Tyers parodied the last phrase as '' te inviente die, te decedente."