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neah, and with them all along the Stalks , towards 
the' tops, many f mall gaping flowers, of a pale bleak 
blewijh color , ft ending in wbitijh Husks ; the Seed 
is fmall and reddijh , which being Sown with us will 
grow admirable well, and thrive afterwards, if care 
Rofmary Common. 
Tranfplanted and kept in order , has in time come 
to the common or ordinary Stature and Magnitude of 
Rofmary but I am apt to believe , it might be kept 
10 be a Dwarf Plant like to our Dwarf Box. But 
our ufual way of encreafing the Plant here in Eng- 
land, is by flipping it , and Jetting thofe Slips, I 
feldom ever found them to fail growing. The whole 
Plant, efpe dally when in its F lowering time , is of a 
p leafing, ' fubtil , fharp, and volatile Smell, and ex- 
ceeding fweet. 
IV. The fecond, or Gilded Rofmary. This in 
its Roots, Woodinefs , Body or Stem, Arms, Branch- 
es Leaves, Flowers, and Seed, magnitude, manner 
and form of growing, differs not at all from the for- 
mer but only in the color of the Leaves, which in 
this’' are edged or firiped, or pointed, with a fair Gold 
yellow color, which fo continues all the Tear through - 
out, yet frefher in Summer than in Winter. 
V. The third , or Broad Leav’d Rofmary. This 
alfo grows like the former-, and tho it grows very 
large in its Leaves, with us here in England, yet it 
grows not fo great, nor witb-fucb woody Branches , 
as it does in Spain, Italy, and other hot Countries, 
where it is a Native -, and withall, with us , it is 
more tender to be kept. The Leaves are larger , , 
and of a more deep fhining green color on the upper 
fide, and little or nothing wbitijh underneath, more 
thinly alfo, or fparfedly fet on the Stalks -, but its 
F lowers and Seed are altogether the fame in form , 
magnitude, and color, with the two former. 
VI. The fourth, or Our Wild Rofmary, This 
Our North-Country Plant, grows not to be fo high 
as the former, and has f mailer Leaves, nothing fo 
great and long as Rofmary Leaves , but thicker and 
fhorter • of a dark green fhining color above, and of 
fomewbat a yellowifh green underneath, which grow 
very fparfedly on very f lender and pliant blackifh 
green Twigs-, at the tops of which grow the Flowers , 
not out of Scaly Heads but of a reddijh color • the 
whole Plant is either fcentlcfs , or the Smell is fo 
fmall that it is fcarcely to be perceived. 
VII. The Places. The firft three are Natives of 
Spain, Italy, France, Greece , Ajia, and other hot 
Southern Climates; and are now alfo become Na- 
tives wit^i us here in England, and grow alfo ad- 
mirably well in Qur'Plantations in the Weft Indies, 
where they come to a greater Perfection than they 
do with us in our more Northern Climate. They 
grow alfo in Germany, Denmark , and other 
Northern Countries, but will not live or abide , in 
many of thofe Northern places, unlefs Houfed in 
Winter, and kept in Stoves. The fourth grows in 
England, in feveral places of Lincafhire and Tcrk- 
Jhirc, and other parts bordering upon them, from 
whence it has been brought, and introduced into 
fome Gardens more for its novelty, than for any 
Ipecial ufe it has. The Gilded or Silvered Rofmary, 
ought to be Planted in the moft Sunny parts of rhe 
Garden, for rhe more they are expofed to the Sun, 
the better they will be Striped or Marked, and 
the more Florid they will grow. 
. VIII, The Times. The three firft Flower fome- 
times in April, , but always in May -, and fome- 
times again in Augufl : and the Seed is ripe not 
long after. They are encreafed alio by fitting the 
Slips in March , and af terwards again, in the end 
of Auguft. The Wild Rofmary, Flowers in June 
and July : Gerard fays, that it was found by Mr. 
Hesketh in a Field called Little Reed among Hurtle 
Berries, near to a fmall Village called Maudfley iir 
Lancafhire , and that it is called by Cordus , Chama- 
peuce. 
IX. The Qualities. The laft or fourth is fcarce- 
ly ever ufed in Phyfiek: the firft three have all of 
them, the fame Qualities, Virtues, and Operations, 
and are fa id by Authors to be hot and dry in the 
third Degree: Anodyn , Aperitive, Attractive, 
Carminative , Cofmetick , Digeftive , Difcuflive , 
Cephalick, Neurotick , Stoma tick, PeCtoral, Cor- 
dial, Hyfterick, Arthritick, Emmenagogick, Sudo- 
rifick, and Alexipharmick. 
X. The Specification. It prevails againft the 
Head-ach and Megrim, from a cold caufe the 
Vertigo , Lethargy, hpilepfie, Apoplexy, Pally, 
Convulfions, Catarrhs, Drowfinefs, Dullnefs of the 
Senfes, Lofs of Memory, ctfldnefs of the Stomach, 
(linking Breath, Wind, in the Stomach and 
Bowels, Dimnefs of the Sight, Jaundice, Ob- 
ftruCtions of the Terms, Gout from a cold caufe* 
all external pains and aches from a cold and moift 
caufe, Lamenefs, Numbednefs, Weaknefs of the 
Joints; and in Contagious times, prevails even 
againft the Plague it felf and all Contagious and 
Infectious Difeafes. 
XL The Preparations. You may make therefrom, 
1. A Juice or Effence of the Leaves and Flowers. 
2. A Decotfion or Infufion of the Leaves and Flowers. 
3- A Poudcr of the Leaves and Flowers. 4. A 
Conferve of the Flowers. 5. An Inf oleted Oil of 
the Leaves and Flowers. 6 . A Smoak or Fume. 7. 
A Tinflure of Leaves and Flowers 8- A Di- 
filled Water. 9. Hungary Water . 10. A Cbymi - 
cal Oil. 11. Poteftates or Powers. 1 2- A Spirit.. 
13. An Elixir. 
The 
