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excellente remedies against diuerse diseases, woundes, 
and other accidentes, with the maner to make distilla- 
tions, parfumes, Confitures, Diynges, Colours, Fusions, 
and Heleynges, a woorke well approued, verie profit- 
able, and necessarie for every man, newlie corrected 
and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine 
places, whiche wanted in the firste edition, translated 
out of Frenche into Englishe by Willyam Warde, four 
parts in one vol., Black Letter, small 4to. 
1647. Markham Gervase, ‘‘ The English Housewife,” 
containing the inward and outward vertues which 
ought to be in a compleat woman, and it treats 
specially of ‘Conceited Secrets, distillations, and 
perfumes.” Herein will be found good old recipes 
for ‘‘ perfuming gloves and jerkins and for the making 
of perfumes to burn, for pomanders, and for sweet 
bagges, Damask water,” etc. 
1648. ‘‘The Country Housewife’s Garden” on the 
division and husbandry of herbs, etc. 
1661. Evelyn, John, ‘‘Fumifugium, or the Inconveniences 
of the air and smoke of London, dissipated.” 4to. 
‘‘He proposed that all low ground circumjacent to the 
city, especially east and south-west, should be divided 
into square plots of from twenty to forty acres, 
separated from each other by plantations of fragrant 
shrubs, such as Sweetbriar, Jessamine, Syringa, Roses, 
and above all Rosemary,” the flowers of which are 
credibly reported to give their scent above thirty 
leagues off at sea upon the coasts of Spain. 
The space between these delicious hedgerows was to 
be filled with Pinks, Gillyhowers, Cowslips, Lilies, 
Musk, Thyme, and Marjoram, and all those blossoms 
‘‘which upon the least cutting and pressure breathe 
out and betray their ravishing odours.” By this means 
‘the air perpetually fanned from so many encompass- 
ing hedges of fragrant shrubs . . . the whole city 
