New Principles of Gardening. 
: 3. Its Temperature. 
Garlick is of a very fharp, hot and dry Nature, in the fourth 
Degree, according to Galen. 
4. Its Medicinal Virtues. 
It being eaten, heats the Body very much, attenuates thick 
and grofs Humours, cuts fuch as are tough and clammy, and 
confumes them; opens Obftrudtions, and is a very great Ene- 
my to cold Poifons, and bitings of venomous Beafts, for which 
Virtues, Galen called it Theriaca Rufticorum, ox the Husband- 
man’s Treacle. 
It greatly helps an old- Cough, provokes Urine, breaks and 
confumes Wind, and is very good for a Dropfie procecding 
from a cold Caufe. It kills Worms in both Men and Chil- 
dren, being eaten raw by Men, and boiled in Milk for Chil- 
dren. 
’Tis a very great help to acold Stomach, and isa very great 
Prefervative againft Contagions and Peftilence. 
5. The Parts for Ufe at Table, 
Ate the Cloves, more to rub the Plates withal to give a 
-Relifh to the Meat, than to eat the Cloves themfelves. 
6. The Quantity is at Pleafure. 
7. Its Cultivation. 
Garlick is very eafily increafed from the Cloves of its Root, 
which is beft done in March, being then planted in light fandy 
Loam, (rather then ftiff cold Land, wherein it will not thrive)’ 
in a Border, about five or fix Inches {quare from one another 5 
and in Fu/y, when the Leaves turn yellow, the Roots muft be 
taken up, and very well dried in the Sun, otherwife they will 
foon rot, as will all other Roots that are to be kept the Win- 
ter, if not well dried at firft taking up. 
N. B. That Rocambole, by fome called Spanifh Garlick, is 
a very ufeful Vegetable , and is much efteemed for its high Re- 
lifh in Sauces. The Parts for Ufe are the fmall Cloves or lit-_ 
tle Bulbs, contained in the Head of the Stem. It delights in 
H a light 
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