184 ~ New Principles of Gardening. 
| 2. Its Temperature, 
Southernwood is hot and dry in the end of the third Degree. 
3. The Medicinal Virtues. 
The Tops, Seed, or Flowers being boiled or ftamped raw 
with Water and drank, are a very good Remedy for thofe that 
are troubled with the Cramp, the Sciatica, and greatly help 
thofe whofe Sinews are fhrunk. 
Being taken in Wine, it kills Worms and expells them, and 
is very good againft deadly Poifon. _ , at 
The Leaves of Southernwood boiled in Water until they be 
foft, and being ftamp’d. with Barley Meal and Hogs.Lard, and 
apply'd asa Plaifter, diffolveth all cold Humours and § Wellings, 
4, Its Cultivation, 
Southernwood or Sothernwood -is increafed by Slips planted 
in March or April, and delights in freth mellow Land, 
- B. That when you plant the Slips, you muft twift their 
lower Parts, as “directed for. Lavender, Ore, >, obs 
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S E-C-T-XXVIE 
Of Thyme. 
- The Kinds and Names. 
HE feveral Kinds of Thyme cultivated in our Gardens are 
Pot Thyme, Limon Time, Maftick Thyme, and marum 
Syriacum or Cat T; Ayme, which in general are well known to 
every one, and therefore need no Defcription. 
2. Their Temperature. 
Thefe Kinds of Thyme are hot and dry in the third Degree. 
2 3. Their 
