154 New Principles of Gardening, 
mongft Gardiners is called a Stamel, and is of no Ufe in Phy- 
fick ; therefore not to be entertain’d in a Garden, 
3. The Temperature. 
The. Gilliflower is temperately hot and dry, 
loo io) busrencte Dhe Medicinal Virtues. 7 
“° The: Conferve made of the Flowers and: Sugar is an ex- 
ceeding good Cordial, and being eaten now and then comforts 
the Heart beyond Expreflion, as alfo doth the Syrup being 
drank in Brandy, and is very opening. 
~The Conferve is very good againft peftilential Fevers, ex- 
pelling the Poifon and Fury thereof, and greatly comforts the 
Stomach, 
5. Its Cultivation, 
The Clovegilliflower is propagated by- Layers, as the Carnaz 
tions ( well known to every Gardiner and Florift) in June, or 
the firit Fortnight in Fly; they love alight rich Soil, and are 
very great Bearers, and I believe are therefore called in Latin 
Caryophyllus Multiplex. 26% 0 
> WN. B. df the Flowers are gather’d when wet, and lay’d clofe 
together,, they. will immediately heat and turn: black: 
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SECT. vil. 
Of Dragons, _ 
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1. Ther Names,» - 
HE_ Herb called Dragon, »:is ‘called in Greek Ovanovriey 3 
in Latin Dracunculus; or. ‘Dracontium; andias there are 
two Kinds cultivated in. our Gardenss:7#%.) the: majory ahd the 
minor; they are therefore called ‘Dracontium majus, and Dra- 
contium minus, and very. often Serpentaria major, and of. tome 
Bifaria, and Colubrina, LACT at 
Cordus calls it Dracunculus, Polyphyllos, and Luph, Crifpum, 
andiin Lta/ian tis galled Dragontea > im: High Dutch Schlan- 
ee oe 
genkraut, 
