The Ufeful Family HerhaL 



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Its Trunk is very thick in Prop 

 Leaves are each compofed of three < 



TI 



of fmaller, thefe ftand 



D 



four Pairs 

 from one 



another on the common Stalk, the Flowers are 



little 



d 



d they g 



in Clufters, fa 



that at a Dillance, they look like the Bunches of 

 Elder Flowers. The Fruit is a round Berry often, 

 each of the Bignefs of a Tare. The Wood of this 



Tree is ligh 



paler coloured, and of 



loofer 



Grain than the Eajiern Rofewood 



The "Wood is faid to be good in nervous Dif 

 orders, but we feldom make anv Ufe of it- 



* 



, Rosemary. 

 ROSMARINUS. 



Pretty Shrub, wild in Spain and France^ and 



kept in our Gardens. It is five or fix Feet 



high, but weak and not well able to fupport it- 



felf. 



1 he Trunk is covered with a rough Bark. 



The Leaves fland very thick on the Branches, 

 which are brittle and flender: They are narrow, 

 an Inch long, and thick, and they are cf a deep 

 Green on the upper Side, and whitifh underneath. 

 The Flowers fland at the Tops of the Branches 

 among die Lea^^ es, they are large and very beau- 



greyilh Colour, with a fomewhat r'ed- 



tifu' 



of 



a 



ifh Tinge, iind of a Ytry fragrant Smell. Rofe- 

 mary, when in Flower, makes a very beautiful Ap- 

 pearance. 



The flowery Tops of Rofemary, frefli gathered, 



If thev are ufed in 



contain its greaten: Virtue. 



the Manner of Tea for a Continuance of Time, 

 they are excellent againlt Head-achs, Tremblings 

 of the Limbs, and all other nervous Diforders. 



A Conferve is made of them 



a 



Ifo 



which very 



well anfwers this purpofe: But when the Conferve 



is made only of the picked Flowers, it has lefs 



Virtue. 



