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Show 34 Tbe Gardenof pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, h rootes,. [dare not maketh Pancratinm to be akindeof ‘Squill with reddif vphold their opinion againft fuch manifeft truth. fome dry, but not hot or windy place, and then plantit in the’ ground vader South wall, or fuch like defended place, which will {pring , and‘no doubt profper well there, in regard the greateft anddeepeft frofts are paft after February, fo that feldonie any great frofts comeatter, to pierce fo deepe'as the roote is to be {ery drthereby t6 TheVertues. The Squillor$ea Onionis wholly vfed phyfically withvs, becaufe wee | doe any great harme to itin fucha place. thar can receiue no pleafure fromthe fight of:the lowers. Pliny writcth, forthe fin, ThePlace! Pithagorasiwrotea volume or-booke of the properties thercof, ilar cffedts it wrought; which bookeis loft, yet che diuers vertues it hathis This hath been often fent our of Turkic, and likewife out of Italy obhad recorded by others, to beeffectuall.forthe {pleene, lungs, ftomach, liner, likewife wo rootes fent mee out of Spaine by Guillaume Boel before ves thatit cleareth the:fighty helpeth the tooth-ache ; cleanfeth the head. of with me, forwantoftheknowledge ofthe formér nileInmay be likely that heail and heart: »-andfordropfies, oldconghs, laundife, andthe. wormes, membred, which(as hee faid) hee gathered there, but they profpered nor {curfe,andirunning fotes'; ands an efpeciall Antidote againft poifon : and therefore is vfedasa ptincipall ingredient.into the, Thersaca Aadremachi which wev{ually-call Venice 'Tteaklee The Apothecaries prepare hereof, Arabia isthe place, from whence they of Conftantinoplereceiueit, -The Times both Wine, Minegar,and Oxymel of Syrups, whiclnis fingular toextena, ate andexpetorate tough fegme, whichisthe.cauféof much diiquietin the It fowreth ir May; if itbe of the firtt yearesbringings orinTdne :if ig body,and an hinderer ofconcoction;or difgeftion inthe ftomach , belide hati¢ been ordered afterthe manuerbefore fet downes: diuers other;wayes, whereiathe feales.of the,rootes, being dryed, arevied, And Galenhath fufficiently explained the qualities and propertics thereol, in his eight Booke ofSimples, 1 ' The Naines. It hath beenfent outof Italy by the name of Zilina, Alexandrinum, The Lilly ofAlexandria, but it hath no affinity with any Lilly. Otherscall ic Hyacinthas Avabicas; andthe Italians; facintho del pater nofro:biitirisagla- Crar. XII. cinth neither, although the flowers belike fomeiofthem.;/Somealfo would referreittoa Narcifas or Daffodill;; and, it dothas, little agres withit,.ias Oraithegelum.Starre ofBethlehem. with a: Lilly; although his flowers in largenefle and whitencflerefemblea Daffodill. Clufius hath moft fitly referred it to the ftocke or kindred of Ornithogals,~or Starres.of Bethlehem,.as wee callthemin Englifh, and A Frerthe Family:ofthe Tacinths; mutt néedes follow the kindesofStarre-flov- from the Turkith. name, Zamesl Arafi,enutuled it Oraithegalkm Arabicum, although Zumbul, as I haue before declared, is withthem, a Iacinth, wee etssor Starres of Bethichetn,asthey are-called, forthat they doe fo nearely:t femblethem,thatdiuets hane named fome ofthem Iacinths,and referredehen ;may,callitin Englifh, The Arabian Starre-flower, or-Starre of Bethlehem, orthe great Starre-flowenof Arabia,; 4 to that kindred : allofthem,both inreate , leafe} and flower ;:come neareryntotlt Yacinths, then vato any other plant. Theythall therefore bee next defetibed , ut) one in their order, the greateft firft,andthereft following. — ; ‘oC aL Oreithogalum maxinivesaloams \ Thegredteftwhire Starre-flower, or Starre of BethIchem. © Oraithegilitm Arabienni)” The great Starre-flowerofArabia. This Arabian Starre:flower hath many broad} dnd long greeneleaues, very likev tothe leanesiof the Orientall Iacinth, but lying forthe moft part vpontheground among which rifeth vp around greene ftalke, almofttwo foote high , ‘bearing act toppe diuers large flowers, ftanding vpon long foote-ftalkes , and at the bottome?! euery one of them a fmall fhort pointed greene leafe: thefe flowers are madeofft pure white leaucs'a pcece;laid openslarge as aflordinary Daffodil, but ofthe form ofa StarteTacinth, or Starre of Bethlehem, which clofe'as they doe eucry hight, a open themfclues in the day time, éfpecially in the Sunne,thefimell wheresf1s pret) fweete, but weake : in the middle ofthe foweris a blackith head compofed witht white threeds, tipt with yellow pendents : thé {éede hath not beene obferued witht the roote is great and white, with a flat bottome, very impatient of our cold Wines fo that it feldome profpereth or abideth with ys ;for although fometimiesit doe abit! 2 Winterinthe ground; yetit often lyeth without {pringing blade, orany thing elie whole yeare;and then perifheth : or ifitdoe {pring; yet many doe notbeare, anda after their firt bearing doe decay-and perith. But ifany bedefirous ro know how" preferuectheroote ofthis plant, orofmanyother bulbous roores thet are tender, {i This great Starre-flowér hath many: faire, btdad, long, and very frefh green leaties, rifing vpvétyfearly, andaregreatérjlonger,andgieener thencthe:Jeatics of any Oxi» gatall latiath; which decabidegrédne, from ohiobewinbine ovimiddle of aiuary 5-or before fometimes} ;vatill the endof May’; -ativHichtimetheybegin to fade, andthe ftalke withthe head of flowers beginnethtorife, fothatit will haue either few orne leaucsat all, when the flowers are blowne»the fidlke is trong, round, and firme,rifing two foote high or more,bearing at thetoppeagreat bufhof flowers, feemingatthe firft to bea great greene earé @ftorne, for itis made fpike-fathionzivhich whenthe flowers are blowne, dothrifetoé bevery highs {lender orfiwall athe Head'abouel and broad fpread and bufhing below), fo that it is long in-flowring 2forthey dower belowfirtt, and fo vpwards by dearees : thefe flowers are {now white jwithout any line on the backfidej:andistherein'like vnto the former, astilfo'in whitencHe’, bit nothing fo large, withawhite vmbone or headin the middle’, beferwitli many White threeds, tipt withyellow: the fecde is blacke and round, contained in three fquare heads : the rooteis great, thicke, and hort, and fomewhat’yellowith on the outfide, witha flac bottome, bothlike the former, and the next that followeth. as the great double white Daffodil! of Conftantinople , andvother fine Daffodils, th 2. Ornithegalum mains[picatum album, come from hot Countries; let them keepethisrulésLeteither the roote bé planted! The great white fpiked Starre-flower. alarge pot; or tubbe ofearth, and‘houfedall the Winter.’ that forit may-bee defend from’ the frofts ; Or elfé whichisthe eafier way)keepethe roote out ofthe go cucry yeare; from September, after theleaucs and flalkes are patty vacill Bebe on = This fpiked Starresflowerin his growing,is foniewhar likevhto thelaft defcribed, ; M 2 bur |