'T be (garden of pieafant Flowers . 
ndl'e of fight, and to take away fpots,tnarkcs and fcarres from the skin • and 
is made in this manner. Take a quantitie of the flowers of Rofemary, accor- 
dingxo your owne will eyther more or le/Te, put them into a ftrong glafle 
clofe flopped, let them in hot horfe dung to digeft for fourtcene dayes 
which then being taken forth of the dung, and vnftopped, tye a fine linnen 
cloth ouer the mouth, and turnedowne the mouth thereof into rhe mouth 
of another ftrong glafTe, which being fet in the hot Sun, an oyle will diftill 
downeinco the lower glade i which preferueas precious for the vfes before 
recited, and many more, as experience by pradice may enforme diuers. 
There is another oyle Chymically drawne,auaileable in the like manner 
for many the famein ward and outward difeafes, ■viz. for the heart, rheuma- 
ticke braines,and to ftrengthen the memory, outwardly to warme and com- 
fort cold benummed finewes, whereof many of good iudgement haue had 
much experience. 
Chap. CXIII. 
Myrtm. The Mirtle trecorbulh. 
I N the hot Countreyes,therc haue been many forts of Mirtles found out, naturally 
growing there, which will not frudifie in this of ours, nor yet abide without ex- 
traordinary care, and conueniencie withall, to preferue them from the lharpenefic 
of our winters. I lhall only bring you to view three forts in this my Garden, the one 
with a greater, the other two with lefler leaues, as the remainder of others which wee 
hauehad, and which are preferued from time to time, nbt without much paine and 
i . Myrtus latifolii. The greater leafed Mirtle. 
The broader leafed Mirtle rifeth vp to the height of foure or flue foote at the moft 
with vs, full of branches and leaues growing likeafmall bulb, theftemmeand elder 
blanches whereofare coucred with a dark coloured bark, but the young with a green 
andfomewithared, efpccially vpon the fir ft (hooting forth, whereon arefetmany 
frelh greene leaues, very fweet in fmell,and very pieafant to behold, fo neer refembling 
the leaues of the Pomegranate tree that groweth with vs, that they foone deceiuc ma- 
ny that are nor expert therein, being fomewhat broade and long, and pointed at the 
ends, abiding alwaies green: at the ioy nts of the branches where the leaues ftand,came 
forth the flowers vpon finall footeftalkes,euery one by it fclfe confiftine of fiue fmall 
white leaues, with white threds in the middle, fmelling alfo very fweet: after the flow- 
ers are paft, there doe arife in the hot Countries,where they are naturali, round blacke 
berries, when they are ripe, wherein are contained many hard whitecrookedfeedes, 
butneuer in this Counrrey, as I faid before : theroote difperfeth it felfe into many 
branches, with many fibres annexed thereto. 1 
2. Myrtus minor, feu minore folio. The fmaller leafed Mirtle. 
The fmaller leafed Mirtle is a low fhrub or bulh, like vnto the former, but fcarcc ri* 
ling fo high, with branches fpreading about the ftemme, much thicker fet with leaues 
* t>rmcr ’ frailer alfo,and pointed at the ends, of a little deeper greene colonr, 
abiding greene alfa winter andfummer, and very fweete likewife : the flowers are 
white like vnto the former, and as fweete, but fliew not themfelues fo plentifull on the 
branches : the fruit is blacke in his naturali places, with feedes therein as the former. 
3. Myrtus minor rotundiorefolio. Boxe Mirtle. 
Wee haue another fort of thisfmall kindeef Mirtle, fo like vnto the former both 
for lmalneffe.deepe greene colour of the leaues, and thickegrowing of the branches, 
that 
