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New Principles | of Gardening. 
The Juice of the Damask Rofe makes the Belly foluble, as 
alfo will the Juice of the Musk Rofe. 
The Syrrup doth moiften and cool » allays the extreme Heat 
of hot burning Fevers, and quenches Thirft. 
The Oil of Rofes mitigates all kind of Heat, and will not 
fuffer Inflammations or hot Swellings to rife, or being rifen, it 
inftantly affwages them. 7 : 
The Conferve of Rofes being taken fafting in the Morning, 
and the laft thing at Night, comforts the Heart, and weak 
Stomach that is moift and taw, ftrengthens the Liver, Kidneys, 
and other weak interior Parts, | 
5. Their Cultivation. 
Both Red and Damask Rofes are increafed by Layers, or 
Suckers, and delight in a freth fandy Loam. 
The beft time to tranfplant them is Odfober or November, 
in Rows about three Feet apart; but in the Gardens about 
London, they generally plant them in the midt of their Straw- 
berry-Beds at the aforefaid Diftance, or fome {mal] Matter more 
or lefs. as 
AN, B.. That the Red Rofes are gather'd for Ufe when in 
“Bud before they are near blown open, and the Damask Rofe 
not till they are full blown. 
SECT. xxi 
Of Saffron, 
fut 115 vay ts Its Names. = 
AFFRON is called in Greek xeonde, in Latin Crocus, j 
S Arabick Tahafaran, in Spanifh earn, and in Englifb 
affron. 3 
2. ts Defcription. 
Saffron is a bulbous rooted Flower, as the feveral Kinds 
of Spring and Autumn Crocus’s are, but much larger. The 
Flower appears in the Autumn, and is of a purple Colour, 
fomething inclining toa blue, and not much unlike the blue 
I : |  —— Crocus 
