CHAP. CCXXI. Another Way to Extract the Tincture of Yellow Flowers, of Field-Poppies, Irises, ordinary and deep colour∣ed Violets, Carnation, and Red-Rose, Borrage∣Flowers, Red-Coleworts, Flags, &c. Together with the Verditers of Mallows, Burnet, and other Herbs.
WE shall not give the same in this as in the foregoing Chapter, that Preparation is com∣mon to all those in the Title thereof, and so is this to these. To avoid Prolixity and Repetitions,
You must have the Flowers, or Herbs newly ga∣thered, fresh enough to stain a Card with their Juice pressed thereon, else they'll not serve your turn; put these into a Glass Cucurbit with a pretty large Mouth; pour in among them good Strong∣Waters to drown them by four Inches, joyn a Reci∣pient to it, and lute the Joints very well, letting them dry; this done, place the Alembick on a Sand▪ Furnace, keeping a very gentle. Fire under it, gi∣ving the Matter time to digest, increasing it by very little and little, and so the Strong-waters will rise on the Leaves, and draw off the Colour, then improve your Fire to distil your tinged Strong-waters, into the Recipient, out of which you must take and put them into another Alembick, luting well the Join∣tures, and let it distil in Balneo, or over a very slow Ash-Fire, and the Strong-water will distil off in their own Colour, without any Tincture, and may be kept for the like occasion again: The Essence you'll