5i CHAPTER 4* 
tyme that Herbes, Flowrs, and Seeds 
" fhould be gathered, to be kept the whole 
" yere, with the Virtue of Herbes when 
they are ftilled. Alfo a general Rule of 
all manner of Herbes, drawn out of the 
" auncient Book of Phyfick by W. C." 
London, by Copland. i2mo. 
BOTAKICAL GARDENS. 
The revival of Botany, and the confe- 
quent eftablifliment of profeflbrfliips, gave 
rife to Botanical gardens ; a new fpecies of 
luxury in horticulture, of Angular emolument 
to fcience. Thehiftory of antient gardens, hi- 
therto not fufficiently illuftrated, merits the 
inveftigation of the moft learned and able 
writer: of the pen of aRAPiN,aMEURSius, 
a Seguier, or a Gronovius. We learn, 
however, that even Botanical gardens are of 
antient date. If it may be credited, what is 
related of At talus, the laft king o£ Per* 
gamusy who from his love of phyfic ha^ 
been ftiled the phyfician, he collefted in his 
garden hellebore^ hmbane^ aconite^ and other 
poifonous herbs, to make experiments oil 
criminals with counter- poifons. Crete, from 
the 
