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body full of raw humours, and fo indeed the Immea- 

 lurable ufe of any thing elfe doth harm. The juice of 

 cucumbers, the face being wafhed therewith, cleanfetk 

 the (kin, and is excellent good for hot rheums in 

 the eyes. It is ufual to ufe the feeds in emulfions, 

 as they make almond milk ; but a far better way, in 

 my opinion, is this : When the feafon of the year is 

 to take the cucumbers, bruife them well, and diftil 

 the water from them ; the- face being wafhed with the 

 fame water cureth the redded face that is. 



" It is alfo excellent for fun-burning, freckles, and 

 the morphew." 



A warm fituation, flieltered from the winds by 

 buildings, fheds, or thickets, and groves of trees^ 

 is of great advantage, and neceflary for a cucumber 

 bed to ftand in ; for were it fully expofed to, and 

 unprotected from, the high and piercing winds, efpe- 

 cially in the winter and fpring months, there would 

 be but little probability of conitant regular fuccefs* 

 For when high winds are fuifered to blow againft a 

 cucumber bed, they have a very powerful effe6l on 

 it ; for in that cafe the heat in a fliort time will not 

 only be greatly abated, but alfo forced and driven 

 into the corners of the frames, and confequently fome 

 parts thereof are rendered too cold, whilll other 

 parts are made too warm ; and of courfe the plants 

 are all equally endangered, retarded in their growth, 

 and perhaps fom.e, if not all of them, totally deftroy- 

 ed. Therefore, when a cucumber bed is about to 

 be built, the firll objeft of confideration fliould be, 



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