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I can aflure that Seeds taken from 

 Cones five Years old, grow very 

 well, which is of lingular Uie to 

 know} for fince their Seeds will 

 grow Co old, we need not defpair 

 of bringing them from the moft 

 diflant Parts of the World, (pro- 

 vided they are brought in the 

 Cones) for otherwife they will 

 keep but a fliort time, which is 

 the Reafon why the Seeds of the 

 Silver Firr are fo rarely good^ for 

 the Cones of this Tree when ripe, 

 fall to Pieces on the firfl: Touch, 

 and fcatter out their Seeds, but 

 the Seeds of all the Kinds of 

 Pines are with fome Difnculry, 

 taken out of the Cones ; therefore 

 it would be a very good Method 

 to preferve the Seeds of Firrs in 

 dry Sand, until the Spring of the 

 Year, which is the proper Seafon 

 for fowing them. 



ABROTANUM, or Southern- 

 wood j 



This Plant is better nown by its 

 outward Appearance than by any 

 diflindl Characters which can be 

 given of it, agreeing in moft Parts 

 with the Worm-wood, from which 

 it is not eafy to feparate it. 



Of this Plant there are fix or 

 feven different Sorts, which are 

 Natives of Europe i but there are 

 not above two of them common 

 with us in the Englijl) Gardens, 

 which are, 



I. Abrotanum i ma^ angujiifo- 

 lium majus. C. B. Fin. Common 

 Southernwood. 



2.. Abrotanum ; mas angufti- 

 folium minus. C. B. Fin. The ieller 

 and Narrrower-leav'd Southern- 

 wood. 



Thefe two Sorts are eafily in- 

 creas'd, by planting Cuttings, in 

 a Ihady Place, in any of the Spring 

 or Summer Months. The firft of 

 thefe Sorts is fometimes ufed in 



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Phyfiek, being accounted good to 

 deftroy Worms in Children. 



It is ufed in Gardens as an Un- 

 der-fhrub, and may be kept to a 

 handibme round Head j but it is 

 chiefly raifed by the Gardeners near 

 Londo/i to furnirti the Balconies 

 of the Citiieni, in the Spring and 

 Summer Months; it enduring the 

 Smoak of the City better than 

 moft other Shrubs or Plants, and 

 affords (to fome People) a grate- 

 fuil Smell. 



ABROTANUM FOEMINA. Vi^ 

 die Santolina. 



ABSINTHIUM} Wormwood. 



The Characiers of this Plant are. 



It hath an indetrjninate Stalk, 

 branching out into many fmall Shoots 

 rohich are furni(h\l -with Spikes of 

 naked Flowers hanging downward j 

 the Leaves are hoary, and of a bitter 

 Tafte. 



There are many Varieties of the 

 Sea Wormwoods in England, which 

 are promifcuoully gather'd by the 

 Herb- Women, and fold in the Lon- 

 don-Markets for the Roman ^rm- 

 v/ood, and are thought by fome 

 preferable to that } but as thefe are 

 for the moft part accidental Va- 

 rieties, fo I ihall only mention tho!e 

 Sorts which are cultivated in the 

 Gardens. 



I. Absinthium i vulgar e ma jus, 

 J. B. Common Wormwood, 



1. Absinthium,- Fonticum tenui- 

 folium incanum, C. B. Fin. True 

 Roman Wormwood. 



3. Absinthium; maritimum la- 

 venduU folio, C. B.Fin. Sea Worm- 

 wood, with Leaves like Lavender. 



4.. Absinthium ; infipidum, ab- 

 finthio vulgari fimile, C. B. Fin. 

 The infipid Wormwood i it is folikc 

 the Common, as not eafily to be 

 diftinguinVd, but by fmelling and 

 tafting the Herb, unlefs by fuch 



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