Lavender has a long literary past. With a fine fragrance, medicinal and culinary value, and a history of favor at court, Lavender waxes poetic in these memorable quotes and passages: Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1652) Being an inhabitant almost in every garden, it is so well known, that it needs no description. John Gerard, Herball (1597) The floures of Lavender picked from the knaps,