Chap. 13. Engkjb Herbs . 
here is to be noted that the yellow Anemone differs 
much from all the reft of the Jingle various Colored 
Anemonies, for its Leaf is much like to a Common 
Mallow Left finely dented about the edges , 0 green 
011 the lop , and fomething reddifh underneath , its 
flower is yellow , and the Head or Thrumb in the 
ruddle is yellow alfo. In all thefe Colored Jingle 
Anemonies, when the flowers are blown away , there 
remains a ' 'Head whereon grows the Seed , which is 
Jmall and black , or blackifh , inc/ofcd in a kind of 
feft Wooll or Down. 
IV. The Double Garden Anemone. The Root is, 
thick and Tuberous much like to the Root of the for- 
mer : and indeed the Roots , Leaves and Stalks much 
refemble the former Jingle Anemones, but the Leaf 
is not altogether fo finely cut and Divided , as the red 
or Purple-flowerd fingle are : at the top ofi the Stalk 
t here ftands a fair flower either red orfcarlet , crim- 
fon, purple blewifh , orange , tawney , yellow or white , 
ormixt with fiome of thefe ^ Conffting of divers broader 
Leaves , with fever al rows of narrower Leaves one 
within another , which together make a very fair and 
beautiful flower , the middle Head being thick clofed 
either of a gfeenifh , or whitifh Color , or with red 
Colored Thrumbs tipt with blew , or various accord- 
ing to the Colors of the flower. After the F lowers, 
there foMptos she Heads which contain the Seeds as 
the former. Here note , that the double yellow Ane- ! 
mone has fuch broad roundifb Leaves as the Jingle j 
Kind, but fomewhat larger or ranker , and the Stalks 
are befet with larger Leaves , more deeply cut in on 
the edges, and the flowers are of a more pale yellow , 
with fome purplijh Veins on the out fide ■, and there is 
befides t hefe , fo great a variety ofi mixt Colors , in 
this Kind of Anemone,zu/r/;> broad Leaves arifing every 
year from the ■ J owing of the Seed, of fome of the 
Choiceft , that it is wonderful to obferve , not only the 
variety of fingle Colors , but the mixture of two or 
three Colors in one flower , befides the diverjity of 
the bottoms of the flowers , and of the Thrumbs or 
Threads in the Middle. But in all thefe various 
Colored double Anemones , the greateft wonder of 
beauty is in the variety of double flowers , that ar if e 
front the other fingle ones, fome having two or three 
'rows of Leaves in the flowers , and fome fo thick of 
Leaves as a double Marigold, or double Crow- 
foot, and of the fame fever al Colors that are in the 
fingle flowers , that it is almoft impoffble to exprefs 
them fever ally • fome falling out to be more double 
in one year which are lefs double in another year , 
yet very many abiding conftantly double as at firft. 
This we thought good to advert if e in General ', that it 
may be applied to each variety , and every Kind of 
flower of each- variety in particular, to fave the far- 
ther trouble of endlefs Defcriptions, and a needlefs 
multiplication of Words to no purpofe. 
V . The Places. Thefe were moft of them brought, 
to us from Conftantinople, fome from Italy, and fome 
from Germany -, but now they are Inhabitants, and 
Natives of our own Country, and may be found 
almoft every where in Gardens, efpecially in Phy- 
fick-Gardens, and the Gardens of induftrious Th- 
rifts. 
VI. The Times. They Flower from the begining 
of January to the end of April-, and when they 
begin to fade, the Seed (where there is any) is car- 
ried away with the Wind. But if they bear Seed, 
it muft be carefully gathered, but yet not before it 
is throughly ripe, which you may know by the 
Head, for when the Seed with the Woolinefs begins 
to rile a little of it felf, at the Lower end, ir muft 
then be prefently gathered, and laid to dry for a 
Week or more, which then being gently rubbed with 
a little dry Sand or Earth, will caufe the Seed to be. 
lomewhat better feparated, tho’ not perfectly from 
its Down or Wooll inels, that encompalfes it : with- 
in a Month at the moft after the feed is thus gather- 
ed and^ prepared, ir is to be Sown, for lb you will 
get a Year in its growth, more than you would do 
i t you fowed it in the next Spring : if there is any 
Wooll inels in the Seed, they are to be feparated from 
it as well as may be, and their town pretty thin, not 
too thick, upon a plain linobth bed of fine Earth or 
rather in Pots or Tubbs 5 after die Sowing, life or 
gently ftrew over them fome fine, good, frefll 
Mould, about an inch deep at moft for the firft time : 
about a month after their firft fpringing up, ftrew 
or lift over them in like manner, another inch thick- 
nefs of fine Earth, and in the mean Seafon, if the 
Weather proves dry, you muft water them gently 
and often, but not to over-glut them with moifture : 
thus doing, they will fpring up before Winter, and 
grow fo ftrong, as to be able to abide a fharp Win- 
ter, tho 5 in their Infancy ; but vou ought to take 
fome care in covering them loofely with Straw, 
f ern-leaves, or fuch-like, to keep them from the 
extremity* of cold, which yet muft not lye dole up- 
on them, nor too far off neither. The next Spring 
after Sowing, you may, it you ftj pleale, remove 
them j but in my Opinion it will be better to ftay 
till the next Auguft, when you may remove and fet 
them in order by rows, with a luffi’cientdiftanceone 
from another, where you may keep them till you 
fee what kind of Flower each Plant will bear, which 
you may afterwards difpofe according to your 
mind: many of thefe Plants thus ordered (if your 
Mould is fine, loofe, ftefh and black Earth, not 
Stony, Clayifh, &V.) will bear Flowers the fecond 
year after Sowing, and moft or all of them the 
third year, if the place you put them in is in a 
clear Air, free from the Smoak of Chimnies, For- 
naces, Brewers or Dyers Fats, Mault Kilns, Cfc. in 
which they will never thrive. The ordinary time 
to Plant Anemones inis Auguft, and then they will 
be in flower fometimes before Winter, bur moft 
commonly in february , March and April, few of 
them abiding until May -, but if you keep fome 
Roots out of the Ground unplanted, untill february, 
March and April, and Plant fome at one time and 
fome at another, you (hall have them bear Flowers 
according to their Planting: thofe which you Plant 
in february will flower about the middle or end of 
May, and fo the. reft accordingly, as to the time 
you Plant them in * and thus you may have the 
pleafure and variety of thefe Plants, out'of their na- 
tural Seafons, which is fcarcely to be had in any o- 
ther Herb ; Nature not being fo apt to be provoked 
or forced in other things, as (he is in this. But in 
keeping your Anemone Roots out of the Ground for 
this purpofe, you are to keep them neither too dry 
nor too moift, that they may neither wither, Iprout 
nor rot and in Planting them, you muft not fee 
them in too open and funny a place, but where they 
may have fomething of fhaddow. 
VII. The Vitalities. They are hot and dry in the 
third degree. They Attenuate, Incide, and vehe- 
mently Attract ; and by Appropriation are Cepha- 
lick, Uterine and Arthritick : and are only Altera- 
tives in refpeU to Heat or Cold. 
VIII. . The Specification. It is peculiar a gain ft 
Apoplexies, F.pilepfies, Lethargies, Madnels, Ver- 
tigo : s proceeding from a cold and moift Humor, or 
Diftemper of the Head and Brain. 
IX. The Preparations. The Shops keep nothing 
of this Plant in Store, but you may have, 1 . The 
Roots, Stalks and Leaves. 2. The Juice. 3. The 
Ejfence. 4. The Decottion. 5. A Mafticatory. 6. 
A Gargarifm. 7. A P off ary. 8. An Ointment. 9. 
ACataplafm. 10. A Saline Tintlure. 11. An Oily 
Tinfture-, 
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