Vin Browne
Borage ; Borago officinalis
The 1852 Cyclopedia of Botany states ; "A rough plant common in our gardens, with great leaves and beautiful blue flowers, it grows to two feet high ; the stalks are thick round fleshy and juicy and covered with a kind of hairiness so sturdy that it almost amounts to the nature of prickles , the leaves are oblong, broad, very rough and wrinkled, and they have the same sort of hairiness but less stiff than that of the stalk ; the largest grow from the root , but those on the stalks are nearly the same shape, the flowers are placed towards the tops of the branches ; they are divided into five parts of a most beautiful blue and have a black eye as it were in the middle,
Borage has the credit of being a great cordial ; but if it possess any such virtues, they are to be obtained only by a light cold infusion ; so that the way of throwing it into cold wine is better than all the the medicinal preparations, for in them it is nauseous".
Borage ; Borago officinalis
The 1852 Cyclopedia of Botany states ; "A rough plant common in our gardens, with great leaves and beautiful blue flowers, it grows to two feet high ; the stalks are thick round fleshy and juicy and covered with a kind of hairiness so sturdy that it almost amounts to the nature of prickles , the leaves are oblong, broad, very rough and wrinkled, and they have the same sort of hairiness but less stiff than that of the stalk ; the largest grow from the root , but those on the stalks are nearly the same shape, the flowers are placed towards the tops of the branches ; they are divided into five parts of a most beautiful blue and have a black eye as it were in the middle,
Borage has the credit of being a great cordial ; but if it possess any such virtues, they are to be obtained only by a light cold infusion ; so that the way of throwing it into cold wine is better than all the the medicinal preparations, for in them it is nauseous".