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N. B. Ruta Sylveftris, or the wild Rue, is much more ve- 
hement, both in Smell and Operation 5 and therefore the more 
virulent and pernicious, and not to be ufed in either Meat or 
Medicine. . 
j 4. Its Cultivation. 
Garden Rue delights in a light, frefh, fhady Soil, wherein 
is no Dung, that being its mortal Enemy’ ‘tis encreafed by 
Slips planted any time in March or April, being twilted at the 
bottom at the time of planting. : | Sie 
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SECT. XXI. 
Of Red and Damask Rofes: 
1. Their Names. 
HE Rofe is called in Greek pede, and the Plant it felf 
jodavie, and in Latin Rofa, and according to Plutarch, 
tis called Rodon, becaufe it fends forth great plenty of Smell, 
or- pleatanit Otloturs tac" oe 
The Red Rofe is called in Latin Rofarubra,in French Rofe 
Franche, Rofe de Provins, a Town in Campaigne, ané by 
Pliny Trachinta, or Pranefina. ae 
The Damask Rofe is cailed in High Dutch Leibfarbige Roofen, 
in Low Dutch Provencee , and of fome: Provincialis or Role 
of Province, in Italian Rofa Incarnata, io French Melefia,. 
the Rofe of Me/axo, a City in Afia, from whence ‘tis thought 
*rwas firft brought into thefe parts of Europe. 
And as both of thefe Kinds of \Rofes are very well known, 
there needs no Defcriptienis=® aicboliso + Vito Aoi te SD 
neath 608 sees Oakes oe sea © Sos a 
S 3. Their Temperatures. — 
Red Rofes being dried, do bind and dry, and alfo cool, bus 
Damask Rofes are of a moift, aity-and {pirituous Nature. 
: 4. Their Medicinal Virtues: - of 
I'd Water of Rofes is a great Strenethener of the 
he difti Sf 
y great Refrefher of the Spirits, 
/ The 
Heart, and a ver 
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