OF FLORA. 6s 



thoroughly with the other ingredients; 

 and three days after you have put in the 

 lafl Flowers, put the whole into a glafs 

 cucurbit, lute on the head carefully, place 

 it in a water bath over a flow fire, keep 

 the receiver cool, and draw off five quarts 

 of Spirit, which will prove of a rare qua- 

 lity. As a medicine, it is far more effica- 

 cious than Balm-water; and for its fine 

 fcent, one of the beft perfumes. 



77. Compound Cyprus Water, 



Take a gallon of Spirit of Jafmine, 

 infufe in it half an ounce of Florentine 

 Orrice grofsly powdered, a quarter of an 

 ounce of bruifed Angelica-feeds, three 

 fcraped Nutmegs, three ounces of White 

 Mufk-rofes bruifed, a drachm of Spirit 

 of Orange, and fifteen drops of EfTence 

 of Ambergrife. If it is not the feafon 

 for Rofes, when you make this Water, 



put 



