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Rhodium wood, beat them well together and make them 

 in small silk bags. 



Mrs. Glasse. The Art of Cookery (1784). 



An agreeable sweet-scented Composition. 



Take Florentine Orrice, a pound and a half ; Rose 

 Wood, six ounces ; Calamus Aromaticus, half a pound ; 

 Gum Benjamin, five ounces ; Cloves, half an ounce , 

 and Cinnamon an ounce ; beat the whole into powder 

 and fill your bags with it. ^ ^.^ gf f ^ j 



Bags to scent Linen. 



Take Rose Leaves dried in the shade, Cloves beat to a 

 gross powder, and Mace scraped ; mix them together, 

 and put the composition into little bags. t, • , 



Ingredients for various Sorts of these little Bags or Satchels. 

 For this purpose may be used different parts of the 

 Aromatic Plants ; as Leaves of Southernwood, Dragon- 

 wort, Balm, Mint, both garden and wild, Dittany, 

 Ground-ivy, Bay, Hyssop, Lovage, Sweet Marjoram, 

 Origanum, Pennyroyal, Thyme, Rosemary, Savory, Scor- 

 dium, and Wild Thyme. The Flowers of the Orange, 

 Lemon, Lime, and Citron Tree, Saffron, Lavender, 

 Roses, Lily of the Valley, Clove-july flower, Wall-flower, 

 Jonquil, and Mace. Fruits, as Aniseeds, etc. The Rinds 

 of Lemons, Oranges, &c. Small green Oranges, Juniper- 

 berries, Nutmegs, and Cloves, Roots of Acorus, Bohemian 

 Angelice, Oriental Costus, Sweet Flag, Orrice, Zedoary, 

 &c. The Woods of Rhodium, Juniper, Cassia, St. Lucia, 

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