914 Salmon 's Herbal Lib. L 
and in this lec the 'Roots be Set, a Foot afunder 
(for they fpread wide, and will not thrive if they 
want room.) The belt way of Planting them, is. 
open a wide Hole, leaving or railing a little Hill 
in the middle thereof, then to let the Root there- , 
on, and lpread the Fibres round about it; laltly, 
to cover them with Earth, and lb to Water them 
After the middle ol Augujl , every other Year, 
take them up, and then mend or enrich the Soil 
where they grow, with lifted Neats or Cows Dung •, 
and having Hipped or parted the Roots, and cut 
off the Fibres which are. too long, fet them in the 
fame place again. By this means you will not 
fail to have them thrive, and bearftoreof Flowers. 
But if you let them Hand too long unremoved, or 
in poor or ft iff Ground, you mult expect a crop 
of Flowers accordingly. 
Llil. The raifing variety of them from Seal , is 
a Secret , with which jew are well acquainted , and 
it is to be performed with fomething more than 
common diligence , by the following method. When 
the Flowers are palt and the Stalks begin to grow 
yellow, you may oblerve in the top of the little round 
Seed Veffel, a fmall hole, andthen you may be fure, 
that the Seed is almolt ripe, and which if you do 
ijot carefully look to , will all of it fall before 
you are aware. So foon therefore, as you perceive 
it to be ready, cut down the Stalks, and keep the 
tops upright, for if you turn them downwards all 
the belt Seeds will fall out. Then bind them up 
in Bundles or Handfuls, and place them upright, 
to the Glafs of l'ome South Window, where (by 
the warmth of the Sun) they will harden, and be 
much the better. 
LIV. About the end of Augujl , or beginning of 
September , prepare fome fquare Box or Boxes, ac- 
cording to your ltore of Seeds; let them be 9 or 10 
Inches deep, and of what breadth you pleafe, with 
fome holes in the bottom to let out the Water, which 
fill three parts full with fine Sandy lifted Earth, 
one half whereof let be well rotted Neats Dung, 
which well mingled together, and laid fmooth with 
your Trowel, lay thereon a Fingers thicknefs of fine 
fitted Willow Earth, or for w'ant thereof, of dryed 
Cow Dung beaten fmall, mixed with a little good 
Earth and lifted, and fow your Seeds thereon, mixt 
with Wood Afhes, which by their color will direCl 
you to fow them the more luitably : fow them not 
too thin, for all will not come up; and if they do, 
they may eafily be removed to another place. 
LV. The Seeds being thus low’d, cover them 
half a Finger thick with the fame Earth, you put 
next under them, which prefs down lightly, and 
let them remain in the Sun and Air, till they begin 
to come up, which will be about April next, and 
then they mu ft be removed into the Shade, and 
often gently Watred. As foon as they are grown 
to any confiderable bignefs, take fome of them up 
where they are too thick, and fet them prefently in 
fome Bed prepared for that purpole, eight Inches 
afunder, where they may remain, till they come to 
bear Flowers. And thole you leave in the Box, 
may be Tranfplanted in the end of Augujl , after 
the fame manner, and fo the Box will be ready 
again to fow more Seeds in. Some of them will 
bear the Spring following, others about Augujl the 
Year after they were lowed; and the reft, the 
Spring then next following, provided the Earth 
you fet them in be rich and good, otherwile you 
will fail of your expectation. 
LVI. Some think that the beft time to fow the 
Seed in, is, in the beginning of October , others at 
the end of February : but having tryed all rhofe 
Ssafons, it has been found that the end of Augujl 
or, beginning of September ,• are the beft times for 
that purpofe ; for the Seeds are fo fmall, that if 
they be kept any time out of Ground, they will 
dye and become unprofitable. You are alfo to ob- 
lerve, that you five the Seed of the choiceft and 
beft Flowers, for from thence mult come all your 
Expectations. Such Flowers as you dillike, caft 
their Seed away, it is not worth laving; by this 
means having the beft Seed, fowing it in due time, 
and that alio in prepared Earth, andthen fea- 
fonably removing them, into.theirdeftinated places, 
you may reafonably expeel not only a great Variety 
of admirable Plants, but even all that you can de- 
fire to refult from the fame. 
LVII. The Qualities, Specification , Preparations. 
and Virtues of Bears Bars, are the fame . in all re- 
fpe&s with thole of Primrofes and Cowjlips, which 
it you pleafe, you may fee at large, in Chap. *9. 
Sell. 8. ad 18. and Chap. 157. Sell. 18- ad 32. as 
alfo, in Chap. 579. Sect. 21. ad 21. aforegoing, to 
all which places we refer you, it being needlefs to 
repeat the fame things over and over again. 
PRIME, 1 
or > fee Privet, in Lib. II. Chap. 
PRIVET, 5 
PRUNELLA, fee Self-heal, Chap. 
PUCK-FISTS, fee Fufs- Balls, Chap. jo 6 . 
PUDDINGrGRASS, fee Penny-royal, Chap. 574. 
PURPLE- VELVET-FLOWER, fee Flower-Gentle, 
Chap. 278 and 279. 
CHAP. DLXXXI. 
Of P U R P L 6 WORT. 
O R, 
P U R P L E *• G R A S S. 
I. /- T N H E Names. This Plant has no Greek 
1 Name that 1 know of: but it is called in 
Latino, Quadri folium fufoum\ G rumen pur pare urn-, 
Lotus Quadr folia ; and in Englifh , Purple-wort , 
or P urp/e-Grafs. 
II . The Kinds. Authors make it a Species of 
the Trefoils , as Cafper Bauhine in his Pinax, who 
calls it Quadrifolium hortenfe album , as Lobe l and 
Pena call it Quadri folium pheeum fufeum hortenfe, 
vc l hortorum ; which is Tour Leav'd Grafs, or 
our Purple- Grafs, and is a lingular Plant, fui Ge- 
neris. 
T be Descriptions. 
III. It hi.it a long Jlringy Root , furnifhed with 
many fibres and knobs, buds or protuberances , as 
it were Jpringing from them: from this Root rifes 
fevcral creeping Branches , which fpread themfelyes 
on the Ground, having at their ends fever al Leaves 
like thofe of Trefoil, it has for the mojl parr Jour 
Leaves (whence the A'^c CLuadrifolium) yet Some- 
times but three , and fometimes fve, and Jometimes 
feven, (Eoliis quaternis, quinis, aFquando Sep- 
tenis donatur, dixit Butihinus,) thefe Leaves are of 
a fad green color , with, a Jhadow of dark purple 
caft 
