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New Principles of Gardening, 
2. Their Defcriptions. 
(1.) Winter Savory is an Herb very like unto Hyffop, but 
lefs, more tender and brittle. It confifts of many {mall Branches, 
beautifully befet with narrow fharp pointed Leaves, which are 
fomething longer than thofe of Thyme, among which out of 
Husks grow white Flowers, fomething inclinable to 4 light 
purple. The Root is very fmall, as alfo are the feveral Branches 
(as is faid before) but are in general very hard. 
(2.) Summer Savory has very little Difference from the Win- 
ter Savory, excepting that its Leaves are not fo clofe fet toge. 
ther, and when its Seed is Tipe in the Autumn, it immediately 
perifhes. 
3. Their Temperatures, 
Winter Savory is hot and dry in the third Degree, but 
Summer Savory is not quite fo hot. 
4. Their Medicinal Virtues. 
Both Kinds of Savories doth naturally make thin, and clean{e 
the Paflages, and are very good againft Wind, being boiled and 
eaten with Beans, Peafe, &c. which are of a windy Nature. 
5. Their Cultivation. 
They are both propagated from Seed fown in March, and 
delight in a frefh mellow Soil. 
3. BG Tio XML) 
Of Self:-Heal 
1. Its Names. 
» ees, A! is called in Latin Prunella, and by fome 
alfo fooke- Heal, Sicklewort and Self-Heal> And altho’ ’tis a 
very common Herb in the Fields, and well known to every 
one; yet I cannot but recommend its being cultivated in the 
cua ig &! eee a Phyfick 
