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‘encifully in many of our Gardens, where itis fowen, The té.rd, groweth a- 
. Liufanna in Savoy, as Tragus{aith , but only in Gardens with us ¢. The 
fowreh groweth in Cina, as the name expreffeth, and is. chat (as the Apoghecaries 
precend) that is made ufe of in fhops, becau'e they may have the greater price for 
ic, although chat of Exg/and is as effeStuall for many purpofes: The fiftis to be 
founden Mount Baldas, neere Verona in Italy, and on the hills in Switzerland , 
and the fat came out of /taly alfo. Thefe forts flower in June , and the feed is 
ripe in July. The Rootes which are for ufe mutt noc be taken up,till the Stalk and 
Leaves be quit witheredand gone, which will be in Oétober , tor fhould they be 
‘taken before, or after the Leate begins to put forth, they would lo'e much of 
their colour: ' 3 : 
The Temperatare. 
Rubarb is hot and dry, in the fecond degree, of a mixt fubftance, partly airy, thin 
and purging, partly grofle and earthy , whereby itis binding and drying. The 
Monkes Rubarb, which is alfo dry but cooling, is not fo trequentiy uled as former- 
ly, fince the Baltard Rubarb harh been fo pientitull, : 
| The Vertues; : 
Rubarb is fo effeStuall for the Livers that it is called the Life, Sowl, Hears, and 
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bane 
Wine or any 
affwage aa 
