The Virtues are of such great Note, That twenty Volumes might be wrote; The Juice alone Green-Sickness cures, And purges thro' all corporal Pores; If any Maid be sick, or faint Of Love, or Father's close Constraint, One Spoonfull of this Cordial Balm Soon stops each Grief, and every Qualm; 'Tis true, they sometimes Tumours cause, And in the Belly make strange Flaws, But a few Moons will make 'em sound, And safely fetch the Swelling down. Not Saffron chears the Heart like this, Nor can Champaign give such a Bliss: When Wife and Husband do fall out, And both remain in sullen pout, This brings them to themselves again, And fast unites the broken Chain; Makes Feuds and Discords straightway cease And gives at least a _Night of Peace_. This Rarity may now be seen In _Lambeth_, at a Garden Green, _Bowen_ his Name, who in high Tone, Calls it the _Tree of Silver Spoon_, Which all the Maids of curious Eyes May there behold of _largest_ Size. THE Natural HISTORY OF THE TREE of LIFE. _The_ DESCRIPTION _and_ PLACE. The _Tree of Life_ is a _succulent Plant_, consisting of one only strait stem, on the top of which is a _Pistillum_ or _Apex_, at some times _Glandiform_ and resembling a _May-Cherry_, tho' at others, more like the _Nut_ of the _Avellana_ or _Filbeard-Tree_. Its fruits, contrary to most others, grow near the Root; they are usually no more than two in number, their bigness somewhat exceeding that of an ordinary _Nutmeg_ both contained in one strong _Siliqua_, or purse; which, together with the whole root of the plant, is commonly thick set with numerous _Fibrilla_ or _capillary Tendrils_. The tree is of slow growth, and requires time to bring it to perfection, rarely seeding to any purpose before the fifteenth year; when the fruits coming to good maturity, yield a viscous Juice or balmy _succus_, which being from time to time discharged at the _Pistillum_ is mostly bestow'd upon the open _Calyx's_ of the _Frutex Vulvaria_ or _flow'ring Shrub_ usually spreading under the shade of this tree, and whose parts are by a wonderful mechanism adapted to receive it. The ingenious Mr. _Richard Bradley_ is of opinion, the _Frutex_ is hereby impregnated, and then first begins to bear; he therefore accounts this _Succus_ the _Farina foecundans_ of the plant: and the learned _Leonhard Fucksius_, in his _Historia Stirpium insigniorum_, observes the greatest sympathy between this tree and shrub, _They are_, says he, _of the same genus, and do best in the same bed, the_ Vulvaria _itself being indeed no other than a_ female Arbor Vitae.