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Of die Hiflorie of Plants. 



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to macer ate,clofe coucred fome two or three houres • then fet them to the fire flowly to boyle ad 

 ding thereto three pounds of fugar in powder,letting tbe» to fimper together according to difcre" 

 tion/oroe houre or more j then kcepe it for your vfc. 



fbc fame made another way 3 but better by many degrees : take Rofes at your pleafure, put them 

 toboyle in iaire water, hauing regard to the quantity ; for if you haue many Rofes you may take 

 more water ; if fewer.tbe Ieflc water will ferue 1 the which you (hall boyle at the Jeaft three or foure 

 hot res,cuenas you would boilcapieceof roeate, vntill in the eating they be very tender, at which 

 time the Rofes will lofe their co!our,that you would thinke your labour Ioft,and rhe thing fpoiled 

 But proceed, for though the Rofes haue loft their colour, the water hath gotten the tin /hire there- 

 of; then mall you addc vnto one pound of Rofes, foure pound of fine fugar in pure poudcr and fo 

 according to the reft of theRofes.Thus fhallyou let them boyle gently after the fugar is pat ther- 



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to,continuaily (lining it with a woodden Spatula vntill it be cold, whereof one pound wcHir 



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nether to make thereof an Apothecaries (hop, nor a Sugar-Bakers ftorchoufejeauing the reft for 



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Chap, 2,» 



Of the oZMwlte %o[es. 



% 7 'he Kindts, 



Here be diners forts ofRofes planted in gardens, befides thofe written of in the former chan- 

 ter, wh.Ch arc or moft writers reckoned among the wilde Rofes, notwithitandingwe thinke it 

 conuenient to put them into a chapter becweene thofe of the garden and the brier Rolkas indi te- 

 rcet whether to make them of the wilde Rofes,or of the tame, feeing we haue made thcti dcoizoot 



"efpe«5ts,and that worth 



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The fingle Muske Rofe. 





Rofa cMefcata multiplex. 



The double Muske Roi. 



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