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them have yielded all their Virtue towards the 
Growth or the Herb, Flower, and towards per- 
fecting the Seed, and confequently can be of ve- 
ry little fervice lor any medicinal Purpofe. The 
bell Tune therefore to take up all kinds of them 
is, when the young Leaves jull begin to appear 
above Ground. It is then, the Root is provided 
Avith its full Strength to anfwer either Vegeta- 
tion, or phylical Ufes. 
The fitteft Time to gather an Herb, is when 
the Flower is juft ready to open- 
The Flowers, when they are full blown, and 
The Fruit and Seed when kindly ripe. 
Small Roots will dry very well if Ipread on a 
dry f loot, but large ones muft be cut in Slices 
ftrung and hanged up to dry. 
Herbs ftiould be tied into fmall Bunches and 
hanged up where there isdry Air but no Sun, and 
as foon as they are diy enough, they Jhoald be 
put up in Paper Bags and kept from the Duft. 
The Flowers fhould be fpread thin upon a 
Linnen Sheet on a Table or dry Floor w- hercthe 
San cannot reach them and afterwards put up 
as the Herbs, oi which is better in Cuuiiter.i. 
