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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



curious book, and may be taken as one of the earliest of 



" still room " guides. 

 1568. Dodoens, R., "Florum et Coronarium odoratarumque 

 nonnullarum berbarum historia." Eemberto Dodonaeo 

 Mechliniensis Medico auctore. Antwerpiae. Ex officina 

 Christophori Plantini. 8vo. 1568. 

 1574. (Cortese Isabella) Secreti di la Signora Isabella Cortese 

 ne quali si contengono cose minerali medicinali artificiose e 

 d'alchemiche e molte del arte Profumatoria appartementi a 

 ogni gran Signoria Venetia. 1574. 12mo. 



1647. Markham Gervase, " The English Housewife," contain- 

 ing 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. 



1680-90. Temple, Sir William, "Essay on Health and Long 

 Life," says : " Fumigation or the use of scents is not practised 

 in modern physic, but might be carried out with advantage, 

 seeing that some smells are so depressing, or poisonous, and 

 others so inspiriting and reviving." Walking in the India . 

 House at Amsterdam, where Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, &c, were 

 kept in great quantities, he was so revived by their aromatic 

 fragrance that both he, and those with him were much exalted 

 in health and in humour. 



1740. Albrecht, B. G. " De aromatum exoticorum noxa et nos- 

 tratium prestantia." 4to. Erfordiag. 



1800. Buc'hoz, J. P., "Manuel cosmetique et odoriferant des 

 plantes." 4to. Paris. 



1801. " La Toilette de Flore." Buc'hoz' Manuel with different 

 title. 



1822. An old English work on perfumes by the once noted 

 Charles Lilly was edited by Colvin Mackenzie. Lilly, or 

 Lillie, was a practical perfumer, and had a shop at the corner 

 of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, where Rimmel's now stands, 

 and he is constantly alluded to in the Spectator, Tatler, 

 Guardian, &c, of his day. 



