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mggift'sShop of her own : This Hiould be fup- 

 plied from the neighbouring Fields, and from 

 her Garden. There is no Reafon the Drugs 

 ihould not be as well prelerved, and as carefully 

 laid up, as if the Produdl of a different Climate, 

 though the Ufe of the frelh Plants will in general 

 be bell when diey can be had. 



As there are fome which will not retain their 

 Virtues in a dried State, and can be met with only 

 during a fmall Part of the Year ; it will be proper 

 to add the beft Methods of preferving thefe in 

 fome Way, according to the Apothecaries Man- 

 ner ; and thefe Chapters, with that which fliall lay 

 down the Method of maJcing the Preparations from 

 them for ready Service, will be fufficient to lead 

 to the perfeft Ufe of the ^ledicincs of our own 

 Growth : And it will be found upon Experience, 

 that thole who fufEciently know how to make a 

 proper Ufe of thefe, need feldom have Recourfe 

 to any others. 



C H A p. li. 



Concerning the Methods of coUeSflng and pre- 

 Jervitig Plant Sy and Parts of them for Uje. 



'T^HE Virtues of different Plants refiding priri- 

 -^ cipally in certain Parts of them, and thofe 

 different according to the Nature of the Herb, 

 thefe feveral Parts are to be felefted, and the reft 

 left; and thefe are in fome to be ufed frefh and 

 juft gathered ; in others, either Neceffity, or the 

 natural Preference, make it proper to dry and 

 preferve ;hem; 



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