"Cumfrey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to weed out mammy's herb-garden. He keeps it neat as a pin, but has his fun out of it all the same. It is right under the window, where she can see growing her saffron and sage, peppermint, cumfrey, and all the rest. I don't know the names of half. Frederic calls them "health-root," "lullaby-root," "doctor's defiances," "step-quickeners," or ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various |
