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New Principles of Gardening. 
in Italian Boragine, in Spanifh Boraces; and in Englifh Bo- 
rage. 
2. The Defcription. 
Of Borage there are four different Kinds, vig. The Garden 
Borage, call’d in Latin Borago hortenfis; the white flower'd 
Borage, Borago flore aloo ; the never dying Borage, Borago fem- 
per virens ; and a fourth Kind whofe Leaves are like unto the 
jaft, but much thinner, leffer, rough and hairy, dividing its felf 
into many Branches at the Head of the Root, which produce 
very beautiful fair red Flowers. And altho’ there is this va- 
riety of Borage, yet the three laft are to be rejected; the firft 
being for our ufe only. The Leaves of Garden Borage are 
broad, rough and of a yery deep green Colour, and generally 
lying flat upon the Ground: From the Head of the Root, a- 
mongft the Leaves, rifes a Stalk, fometimes about eighteen or 
rwenty Inches high, divided at the upper part into many Branches, 
producing beautiful blew Flowers, each compofed of five Leaves, 
which are fucceeded by Seed, ripe in the Autumn. 
3. Its Temperature. © : 
Borage is evidently moift, and temperately hot and cold, or 
rather a mean between both. 
4. Its Medicinal Virtues. 
The Flowers being eaten in Sallets, exhilarate and make 
the Mind glad. “ 
The Leaves being boiled in Soup make the Body foluble. 
Diofcorides and Pliny affirm, that the Leaves and Flowers 
being put into Wine and drank, drive away all Sadnefs, Dul 
nefs, and Melancholy, and make Men and Women glad and 
merry. 
A Syrup made of the Flowers comforts the Heart , purges 
Melancholy, and quiets the phrantick or lunatick Perfon. 
The Flower of Borage made up with Sugar performs all the 
aforefaid, with greater force and effect, 
The tender Leaves being eaten raw in a Sallet, with other 
Sallet Herbs, create good Blood, and efpecially in thofe that 
have been lately Sick, 
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