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Place.~\ It groweth usually in gardens, and some of it 

 grows wild ia Appleton meadows, in Gloucestershire, 

 where the poor people do gather the buds of young shoots, 

 and sell them cheaper than our garden Asparagus is sold 

 at London. 



Tinie.1 They do for the most part flower and bear their 

 berries late in the year, or not at all, although they are 

 housed in Winter. 



Government and Virtues.'] They are both under the 

 dominion of Jupiter. The young buds or branches 

 boiled in ordinary broth, make the belly soluble 

 and open, and boiled in white wine, provoke urine, 

 and is good against the stranguary, or difficulty of 

 making water ; it expelleth the gravel and stone out 

 of the kidnies, and helpeth pains in the reins. And 

 boiled in white wine or vinegar, it is prevalent for them 

 that have their arteries loosened, or are troubled with the 

 hip-gout or sciatica. The decoction of the roots boiled 

 in wine aud taken, is good to clear the sight, and being 

 held in the mouth easeth the tgotli-ach ; and being taken 

 fasting several mornings together, stirreth up bodily lust 

 in man or woman (whatever some have written to the 

 contrary.) The garden Asparagus nourisheth more than 

 Avild, yet hath it the same eflfedts in all the afore-mentioaed 

 diseases. The decodlion of the roots in white wine, and 

 the back and belly bathed therewith, or kneeling or lying 

 down in the same, or sitting therein as a bath, hath been 

 found effedlual against pains of the reins and bladder, 

 pains of the mother and colic, and generally against all 

 pains that happen to the lower parts of the body, and no 

 less efFedtual against-^tiff and benumbed sinews, or those 

 that are shrunk by cramps, and convulsionSj and helpeth 

 the sciatica. 



Ash Tree. 0. (h. d. 2.) 



This is so well known, that time will be misspent in writ- 

 ing a description of it; and therefore I shall onlj'- insist 

 upon the virtues of it. 



Government and Virtues.'] It is governed by the Sun ; 

 and the young tender tops, with the leaves taken in- 

 wardly, and some of them outwardly applied, are singular 



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