description of Larissa and
Thessalie, speakes of alhanna. Mr. Wyld Clarke assures me that juice
of lemons mixt with alhanna strikes a deeper and more durable colour
either in the hands or nailes.
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Tobacco. - We have it onely in gardens for medicine; but in the
neighbouring county of Gloucester it is a great commodity. Mdm.
"Tobacco was first brought into England by Ralph Lane in the eight and
twentieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth's raigne". - Sir Richard Baker's
Chronicle. Rider's Almanack (1682) sayes since tobacco was first
brought into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, 99 yeares. Mr. Michael
Weekes, of the custome house, assures me that the custom of tobacco is
the greatest of all other, and amounts now (1688) to four hundred
thousand pounds per annum. [Now (1847) about three millions and a
half.- J. B.]
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Broome keeps sheep from the rott, and is a medicine not long since
found out by physitians for the dropsy. In some places I knew carefull
husbandmen that quite destroyed their broome (as at Lanford), and
afterwards their sheep died of the rott, from which they were free
before the broom was cutt down; so ever since they doe leave a border
of broome about their grounds for their sheep to browze on, to keep
them sound.
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Furzes (genista spinosa).-I never saw taller or more flourishing
English furzes than at Chalke.
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