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oe 3. Their Temperature. 
Cowflips and Primrofes are of a dry. Temperature, and little 
if at all hot. etid © 
4. Their medicinal Virtues. 
The Flowers being eaten in Sallets, are very good againft the 
Gout and Palfie, and a Conferve made with their Flowers ang: 
Sugar ‘ prevaileth wonderfully againft the Palfie,; Convialfions, 
Cramps, and other Difeates: of the Sinews. PINE é 
5. Their Parts for ufe. 7 
~The Flowers being’ gathered and picked out of their Hofe 
are the parts to be eaten, being firft infufed in very good 
Vinegat, and eaten with other Sallet Herbs in’ Compofition. 
6. The Quantity to be eaten in a Sallet is double the Quan- 
tity of any one of the other Herbs in the Compofition. 
7. Their Cultivation. 
Both Cowflips and: Primrofes being very plenty, in moft moift 
meadow Lands, are therefore very feldom cultivated in out 
Garden. But if any one is defirous to encourage thefe Flowers 
in their Garden, which 1 cannot but acknowledge that they 
very well deferve, ‘tis performed by parting their Roots, and 
tranfplanting their young Off-{ets. And altho’ thefe forts of 
Flowers are very common in Meadows and Fields, which 
make them of fo {mall a value among Florifts; yet when they 
are promifcuoufly planted amongft other Flowers, as Polyanthos’s, 
Hyacinth, Daffodills, Wall-flowers, Flos Adonis, Virginia Stock, 
éc. they make as pleafant and delightful an Appearance, as 
thofe others which require much more Labour and Charge in 
their Cultivations. They begin their Bloom at the End of Fe- 
bruary, and continue to the End of May, the Cowflip except 
ed, which feldom comes into Bloom till April. 
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