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and cholerick Humours; as alfo doth the middle Bark, but in 
a more violent Manner. 
The Leaves pounded with Deers Suet are good for hot Swel- 
lings and Tumours, and greatly help the Gout. 
The inner and green Bark is a very ftrong Purge; being 
ftamp’d, and the Juice prefs'd out and drank in Wine, is very 
good againft Choler and watery Humours, and efpecially the 
Dropfy. 
The Flowers gathered in April or May and dried, being 
fteep’d in Vinegar, are very wholefome for the Stomach, fweeten 
the Blood, create an Appetite, cut, and make thin all grofs 
and raw Humours, \ 
5. The Parts for Ufe. 
~The young Buds and tender Leaves for Pottage. 
The Flowers being dried for Vinegar, and 
The Berries, which are ripe in September, for Syrup or Wine ; 
of which Kinds, the white is the moft agreeable for Wine, 
it being free from that very ftrong Tafte which the black Elder 
much abounds in. About five Years ago I drank part of a: Bot- 
tle of white Elder Wine, made by that zygensous Nurfery Man, 
Mr. Peter Mafon of Ifeworth in the County of Middlefex , 
which was fo very foft, and of fuch a delicious Tafte, that ’twas 
judged by many, who were competent Judges of good Wine, 
to be as good a White Wine as. they had ever tafted before : 
And ‘tis a very great pity that this, as well as many other Eng- 
lifo Wines, are not propagated much more than have hitherto 
been done. 
6. The Quantity of Buds or Leaves, to be ufed in Pottage, 
muft be a proportionable part with other Soup Herbs: And 
the Flowers for Vinegar are at pleafure; as alfo are the Quan- 
tity of Berries for Wine. 
7. Its Cultivation. 
Both Kinds of Elder are increafed by Slips or Cuttings, 
and will thrive in any fort of Land that is tolerably good, and 
are often found growing wild in Hedges, Woods, ce. 
And altho’ ’tis but very little regarded by Gardiners, yet I 
am well affured, that were they to plant it in Hedges, running 
Eaft and Weft, ix would not only be a great Prefervative, by 
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