{$ The Scented garden ^ 



it very well and when tis very dry put some amber grease 

 pounded and some civet ; rub it about the leaves what 

 quantity you please ; so you may keep it in bags as long 



' " A Book of Simples {circa 1650). 



A perfume for a sweet hagg. 



Take half a pound of Cypress Roots, a pound of Orris, 

 3 quarters of a pound of Rhodium, a pound of Coriander 

 Seed, 3 quarters of a pound of Calamus, 3 oranges stuck 

 with cloves, 2 ounces of Benjamin, and an ounce of 

 Storax and 4 pecks of Damask Rose leaves, a peck of 

 dryed sweet Marjerum, a pretty stick of Juniper shaved 

 very thin, some lemon pele dryed; let all these be powdered 

 very grosely for the first year and immediately put into 

 your baggs ; the next year pound and work it and it 

 will be very good again. 



Mary Doggett : Her Book of Receipts (1682). 



Our great- grandmother's sweet bags. 



Equal quantities of dried lavender, verbena and sweet 

 geranium leaves. 



For Ordinary Linnen. 



Take of orrice 8 pound, callamase 2 pound, damaske 

 powder a pound, cloves a pound, gallingall half a pound, ] 

 benjamin half a pound, storax half a pound, lavender a 

 pound : to every pound of rose leaves you must put a 

 pound of powder. A ^ QJ ^^ ( ^ l5so)> \ 



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