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Show _____ Tbe Garden of pleafant Flowers. : The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. the middle; forit is fometimes without any ftripes, and alfo of little deeper yellow 1: Viole fimplex Martia. Single MatchViolets. The fiagle Garden Violet hath many round greene leaues,finely fnipt or denteda. boutthe edges, ftanding vpon feuerall {mall ftalkes , fet at diuers places of the many creeping branches, which asthey ruane, doe hereandthere take reote in the ground, bearing thereon many flowers feuerally atthe ioynts of the leaues, which confitt of flue {mall ieaues, with fhott round tayle or {pure behinde, of a per ct blew purple colour, and of a very {weetefent, it bringeth forth round feede veflels , anding like. wife vpon their (euerall {mall ftalkes, wherein is contained round whit& colour : this isto bee encreafed by flips , which will foone comprehend in 4 moift or moiftened ground,for that I neuer could obferue thatit bore feede. The Place. Thefe plants werefirft wilde, and by manuring brought tobe bothfai rerin colour, and peraduenture ofa better fent then whenthey grew wilde. feede : byt The Time. thefe headsrife not from wherethe flowers grew, as inall other ee that I know, but apart by themfelues, and being fowne, will producegothers “Mke vnto it felft, whereby cheremay be miadea more {peedy encreafero planta Garden(as I haue done) orany other'place,then byflipping ,:as is the vfuall manner : the rootes {pread both deepeand wide,taking {trong hold inthe ground. ” glove albo. Blare obfolete. 283 former, ofafaire pale yellow colour, with fome yellower {tripes now and then abour eistins Ofthiskinde there is another that beareth white fowers, notdifferingin {mellor any thing elfe from the former. And alfo another,that beareth flowers ofa dead orfad reddifh colour, inallother TheViolets flower in March, and fometimesearlier, and ifthe yeare be temperateand milde, in Autumne againe. The double Violets, as they are later before they flower thenthefingle, fo they hold their fowers longer, The Harts eafe flowreth feldomevntill May ; butthen fome willabideto /: flowervntill the end ofAutumnealmoft,efpecially ifthe frofts be notear]ly. The Names. things alike, fauing that this hath not altogether fo good a fent as the other, 2. Viole Martiaflore multiplici. Double MarchViolets. The Violetis called Viele migra , purpurea, and AMertia: In Englith, Violets, March Violets, and purple Violets, The Harts eafe is called Viola There isno difference betweenethis Violet and the former, in any other thing thea flammea, Viola tricolor, tole multicolor , and of fome, Jacea, Flos trivitatis, inthe doubleneffe of the flowers, which haue fo many leauesfer and thruft together, that they are like vnto hard buttons. Thereis of this double kinde both white and purple, asinthe finglesbutthe whitefort is feldomefo thicke and doubleasthe pu ple: but ofthe redcolour to be double I neuerheard, ’ and Herba claueHata : In Englifh, Harts eafe,and Panfies,of the French name Peafees. Some giucit foolifh names, as Loue in idlenefle, Cull meeto you, and Three fates inahood. Thegreat yellow Hartseafe is fo called, becaufeit is like in forme, andis the greateft ofall other, although it haue not that diuerfity ofcoloursin it thatthe other haue. 3.Viols flammesfine tricolor. Harts cafes or Panfies. The Harts cafe hath his leaues longer, and more endented orcut in on theedgts then the Violet hath, and fomewhat round withall: the ftalkes are vpright, yet woaht, and ready to fall downe, and lye vpon the ground, fet hereand there with the ig leaues, from whence comeforth the flowers,oflittle or no fentatall, made like vpt0® 7 Violet, yet more open , and with larger leaues ; but fo variably mixed with blewot purple, white and yellow, thatit is hard to fet downeall thevarieties : For fome fow- ers will be more white, and but fome {potsof purple or blew in the two vpperleauts and the lower leaues with fome ftripes ofyellow in the middle:others will haue mo purple in them then any other colour, both in thevpper and lower leaues, the fide leaues blew, and the middle yellow,and others white and blew with yellowftripes# naturelifteth to diftribure their colours : the feede is fmall, whitifh,and round, co tained in {mall round heads : the roete perifheth euery yeare, and raifeth it felferp The Vertues. » The pro erties ofViolets are fufficiently knowneto all, to cooleand moiften: hall forbearcto recitethe many vertuesthatmaybe {er downe, ‘and onelyJet you know,that they haue in them an openingorpurging quality, beiag taken either frefh and greene, or dryed, and made into powder, efpeciiilly the flowers ; the dryed leaues will doe the like, but in greater quantity. Cofteus in his booke of the nature ofall plants faith, that the diftilled water of'Harts cafe, is commendedin the Frenchdifeafe, to be profitable, being taken for nine dayes or more, and {weating vponit, which howtrueitis, [know not, and with fomebetter experience were made of it, before we put any great confidenceia that affertion, plentifully by it owne fowing,if it befuffered. Cravr. LIII. 4-Viele tricolor flore daplici. Double Harts eafe. We haue in our Gardens anotherfort, that beareth flowers with more Jeanes the | the former, making it feeme to be twice double, and that onely in Autumne; for ti | firft lowersare fingle that come in Summer: Thisis of that fort that beareth purP* flowers : Andit isto be obferued, that the feed of this kinde will notall bring double flowers,but only fome,ifthe groundbefit and liking , ‘M@Bhatif you hauc once haa®’ this doublekinde,you hall feldome miffeto hauc double Howers againecuery yeate . it owne growingor fowing. 5-Fiole flemmes lutes maxima. The great yellow Panfic. Thereis one other kinde of Hartseafe, that decketh vp our Gardens not tobe . gotten , whofe leaues and flowers are likethe former, but moreplentifull in Atal ; and branches, and better abideth our Winters : the flowersare larger then any0 osmnt's Epimediam. Barrenwort, Ts pretty plant rifeth vp out ofthe ground with vpright, hard, round,finall ftalkes, a foote and a halfe high, or not twe foote high at thehigheft, diuided intothreebranchesfor the moft part, each branch whereof is againe diuided forthe moft part intothree other branches, and each of them beare threeleaves({eldome cither more orleffe) fet together, yet each vpon his owne foote-ftalke, cach leafe beingbroad, round, and pointed attheend, fomewhathardordryin feeling, hayric, or as it were prickly aboutthe edges, but very tenderly , without harmc, of2 light greene colour onthe vpperfide, anda little whiter vnderneath : from the middle of the ftemme or ftalke of leaues doth likewife comeforth another longftalke, not much higherthen thofe withthe leaues onthem, diuided into other —; a whereof |