The Kitchen (garden. 
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The Vfe ®f Baulme. 
Raul me is often vfed among other hot and fweete herbes, to make baths 
and walhings for mens bodies or legges, in the Summer time, to warmeand 
comfort the veines and finewes, to very good purpofe and effed , and hath 
in former ages beene of much more vfe then nowadaies. It is alfo vfed by 
diuerstobeftilIed,bcingftecped in Ale, to make a Baulme water, after the 
manner they haue beene taught, which they keepe by them, to vfe in the 
fteadof ‘-y/qutviu, when they haue any occafion for their owne or their 
neighbours Families , in fuddaine qualities or paffionsof the heart : but if 
they had a little better direction (for this is fomewhat too rude) it would 
doe them more good that take it: For the herbe without all queftion is an 
excellent helpeto comfort the heart, as the very fmell may induce any fo to 
beleeue. It is alfo good toheale grecne wounds, being made into falues : 
and I vetily thinke,that our forefathers hearing of the healing and comfor- 
table properties of the true naturali Baulme, and finding this heibe to be fo 
effedluall, gaueit the name of Baulme, in imitation of his properties and 
vertucs. It is alfo an herbe wherein Bees doe much delight, as hath beene 
found by experience of thofe that haue kept great flare ; if the Hiues bee 
rubbed on the infide with fame thereof, and astheythinke it drawetho- 
thersbythefmellthercof to refort thither. Plinic faith, it isaprefent re- 
medy againft the flinging of Bees. 
Chai. X. 
Mentlot. Miatcs. 
v.i liloci , it . . .'ire: : 1 1. . 7 
T Here are diuers forts ofMints.bothofthe garden, andwilde, of the woods,' 
mountaincs,and (landing pooles or waters: butl will onely in this placebring 
to your remembrance two or three forts ofthc moll vfuall that are kept in gar- 
dens, for the vfes whereunto they are proper. 
Red Mint or browne Mint hath fquare brownilh flalkes , with fomewhat long and 
round pointed leaues, nicked about the edges, ofa darkegreene colour, fet by couples 
ateuery ioynt, and ofa reafonable good fent: the flowers of this kindcarercddilh, 
(landing aboutthetoppes of the flalkes at diflances: the rootes runne creeping in the 
ground, and as the reft, will hardly be cleared out of a garden, being once therein , in 
that the fmallell peece thereof will growe and encrcafeapace. 
Spearc Mint hath a fquare greene flalke , with longer and greener leaues then the 
former, fet by couples, ofa better and more comfortable fent, and therefore of much 
more vfethen any other: the flowers hereof growe in long cares orfpikes, ofa pale 
red or blulh colour : the rootes crcepe in the ground like the other. 
Party coloured or white Mint hath fquare greene flalkes and leaues , fomewhat lar- 
ger then Spearc Mint, and more nicked in the edges, whereof many arc parted , halfc 
white and halfe grecne, and fome more white then greene, or more green then white, 
as nature lifteth: the flowers (land in long heads clofe fet together, ofa blulh colour:, 
the rootes creepe as the reft doe. 
The Vfe of Mintes. 
Mintes arc oftentimes vfed in baths, with Baulme and other herbes, as a 
helpe to comfort and ftrengthen the nerues and finewes. 
It is much vfed either outwardly applycd, or inwardly drunke, to ftreng- 
then and comfort weake ftomackcs, that are much dueh to caftiag : as alfo 
for feminine fluxes, lcisboylcdinmiikc for thofe whofe ftomackcs arc 
apt 
