New Principles of Gardening. 
broad towards the bottom of the Plant, and leffer towards the 
top, being very foft, of a whitifh Colour, and flightly in- 
dented about the Edges. 
The Stalks are ftreight and round, of a grey Colour, and 
often rife about three or four Feet high. 
The Flowers are produced at the feveral Joints of the Stalks 
from the upper part of the Stem of each Leaf, wherethey joyn 
to the feveral Stems, and are in Form like unto the wild Mal- 
low, but not red as they are, being commonly white, and 
ting’d with a purple. The Knob or Button, which fucceeds 
the Bloffoms whercin their Seed is contain’d, is very like that 
of the wild Mallow. 
The Root is generally very large, tough, white within, con- 
taining a clammy and flimy Juice. 
3. Its Temperature. 
Marfomallow is moderately hot, and drier than the wild 
Mallow. The Root and Seed are more dry, and of thinner 
Parts, and likewife of a digefting, foftning, and mollifying 
Nature. : 
4. The Medicinal Virtues. 
The Leaves of Marfbmallows, digett, flacken, and mitigate 
Pain, and are very good, being mixed in Fomentations and’ 
Pultifes, againftthe Stone, pain of the Sides, and of the Bladder. 
The Decoétion of the Leaves drank does the fame, and not 
only affwages the Pain, but eafily expellsit. | 
- The Decoétion of the Roots is very good againft the Bloody 
Flux, and that not by a binding Quality, but by mitigating the 
Gripings and -Frettings thereof ; for they are not of a binding 
Nature. : 
The Roots boiled in Wine, and the Decodion drank expels” 
the Stone and Gravel, is very good againft the - Flux, 
Sciatica, Cramps, and Convulfions ; and the Seed beaten to 
Powder, and drank in good’old Port Wine, ftops the Bloody 
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Flux; and: all other likes Ifues of Blood. i “iy 
5. The Cultivation. ae 
Mar omallow is encreafed from Seed fown any time in d¢p- 
Bale March, the Leaves and Stalks being xed - 
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