Gather All Leaves In The Hour Of

Such Roots As Are Soft, Your Best Way Is To Dry In The Sun, Or Else Hang Them Up In The Chimney Corner Upon A String; As For Such As Are Hard You May Dry Them Any Where.

The Barks Of Trees Are Best Gathered In The Spring, If It Be Of Great Trees, As Oaks Or The Like, Because They Come Easiest Off, And So You May Dry Them If You Please, But Indeed Your Best Way Is To Gather All Barks Only For Present Use.

If You Dry The Chestnut, Both The Barks Being Taken Away, Beat Them Into Powder And Make The Powder Up Into An Electuary With Honey, It Is A First-rate Remedy For Cough And Spitting Of Blood.

Thus Have You The Way Of Making Conserves, The Way Of Keeping Of Them Is In Earthen Pots.

For God's Sake Build Not Your Faith Upon Tradition, 'tis As Rotten As A Rotten Post.