‘New. Principles of Gardening. 
3. The Temperature. 
Rofemary is hot and dry in the fecond Degree, and of an 
aftringent or binding Quality. 
4. The Medicinal Virtues. . 
Rofemary is given againft all Fluxes of Blood. The Flowers 
are very good againft all Infirmities of the Head and Brain, 
proceeding from a cold and moift Caufe. They dry the Brain, 
quicken the Senfes and Memory, and ftrengthen the mufcu- 
lar Parts. | 
The diftill’d Water of the Flowers being drank every Mor- 
ning and Evening, the firft and laft rhing after rifing and going 
to Bed, takes away the Stench of the Mouth and Breath, e{pe- 
cially when there are afew Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon and An- 
nifeed fteep’d or infufed therein. Bre only" : 
5. Its Cultivation. 
Rofemary is increafed by Slips of the laft Year's Shoot, be- 
ing twifted at the lower end, and planted in March or Aprit 
in any kind of Soil. 
N. B. That Slips of two Years Growth will not firike Root, 
the Wood being too hard; the like of Lavender. _ 
ao oe. 
Of Garden Rue. | 
 suesl at. dts Names. ai ii 
RUE is called ine Latin. Ruta hortenfis, as 
aes a ) led Rauten, in 
“alfo in Italian, in High Dutch ’cis called | 
Low Dutch Ruijte, in Spanifh Aruda, in French Rue de 
fardin, and in Englifo Herb-Grace and Rue. 
There is another kind of Rue that 1s wild, called in Greek 
aiyavey, in Latin Ruta fylvefiris, in Galatiasand Cappadocis 
uaav, and of feveral Harmala; the Arabians call it fHarmel, 
and the Syrians Befara. 
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