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" TheGardenof plesfant Flowers. ~~«OAR. 
_ nelle of fight, andro take away {pots,markesand {carres fromthe skin sand 
_ismade inthis manner. Take a quantitie of the flowers of Rofemary, accor= 
ding to yous owne will eycher more: or leffe,| put them into’a ftrong glaffe 
_ clofe ftopped, fet them in hot horfe dung to digeft for fourteeric dayes,, 
which then being taken forth of the dung, and vattopped; tye a'fine linnen 
_ cloth ouer the mouth, andturne downethe me wi, into the mouth 
of another ftrong glafle, which being fetin the hor Sun, anayle will diftill — 
downeinto the lower glaffe ; which preferue as precious for es vfes before 
recited,and many more, as experienceby prattice may enforme diuers. 
There is another oyle Chymically drawne, auaileable in the like manner 
-_formany the fameiawardand outward difeates, viz. for the heart, rheumae 
". ticke braines,and to ftrengthea the memory,outwardly to warme and com- 
fort coldbenummed finewes, whereof many of good iudgement haue had 
. much experience, Frei. ge) ; 
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Myrtu, The Mirtle tree or bufh. 
BON the hot Countreyes,there haue been many forts of Mirtles found out,naturally 
“ [eoringencre, which will not fructifie in this of ours, rior yet abide without ex- 
_ \traordinary care,and conueniencie withall, to preferue them from the fharpeneffe 
of our winters. I {hall only bring youto view three forts in this my Garden, the one , ° 
_ witha greater, the othertwo with leffer leaues;-asthe remainder of ethers which wee 
_ haue had, and which are preferued fromtimetotime, not without much paine and 
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"The broader leafed Mirtle rifeth vp tothe height of foure or fiue foote at the moft 
 ‘withvs, full of branches and leaues growing like a{mall buth, the ftemme and elder 
branches whereof are couered with a dark coloured bark, butthe young with a green, 
_ andfome withared, efpecially vpon the firft fhooting forth, whereon are fet many 
_ freth greene leaues,very {weet in fmell,and very pleafantto behold,foneerrefembling — 
the leaues of the Pomegranate tree that groweth with ys, that they foone deceiue ma- 
~  pythatare not expertthercin, ‘being fomewhat broade and Jong, and pointed at the 
ends, abiding alwaics green:at the ioynts of the branches where the leaues ftand,ceme 
forth theflowers vpon {inall fooreftalkes,euery one by it felfe confifting of fine {malt 
white leanes, with white threds in the middle,{melling alfo very {weet:after the flow- 
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are paft,there doe arife inthe hor Couatries,where they are naturall,round blacke 
aaron they are ripe, wherein are contained many hard white crooked feedes, 
_ butneuer. in this. Countrey, as I faid before: the roote difperfeth it {elfe into many, 
_—-Branches,with many fibres annexedtheretos 186 0 
“| 24 Myrtua ine fea minerefelit, Tae faialler leafed Mirtle, 
_ The fmaller leafed Mirtle is a low fhrub or buh, like vntothe former, but fcarce ri- 
fing {o high, with branches {preading about the ftemme, much thicker {et with leaucs 
 thenthe former, fmalleralfo,and pointed attheends, ofa little deeper greene colour; 
abiding greene alfo winter and fummer,; and very {weete likewife : the fowers are 
white like vato the former,and as fweere, but fhew not themfelues fo plentiful on the 
branches: the fruit isblacke in his natural! places, with {eedes therein as the former. 
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| Weehaneanother fort of this farall kindeof Mirtle, fo like ynto the former botk 
for {malneffe,deepe greene colour of the Ieaucsjand thicke growing of the branches, 
