"Xhe TraEtical Kitchen Gardiner. 307 



Coaftmary, the balfamita of the bota- 0/ coaji^ 

 nifts, ab odore balfamino dl^ia^ as the la- ^''^^n- 

 borious Stephens and Brown affure uS;, is 

 an excellent balfamick, healing herb $ and 

 tho' not much ufed in the kitchen, is 

 endued with wonderful properties in 

 pharmacy and phyfick 5 for which rea- 

 fon it ought to have room in the gar- 

 den. There is but one fort figufdj, 

 which is the balfamita mas, or male bal- 

 fam, Ger.p. 648. or otherwife, the cof- 

 tus hortorum major of Tarkinfon, 78, 

 the common coaftmary. 



SECT. VII. CHAP. LVIII. 



Of fuch herbs as are required to be raif 

 ed in a garden, for the ufe of a labo- 

 ratory:, diftillary, dec. 



THere are at leaft twelve forts of 

 this thiftle, that have been long 

 cultivated in our Englifh gardens, the 

 chief of which are the cardmis benedic^ 

 tus, or the blelTed thiftle, Ger, p.wjii 

 7 ark, 957. fo well known for its 

 wonderful operation in all emetics, that 

 I need not prefume to trouble my reader 

 with any large account of it, \^hich it 

 X 2 would 



