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Show The Gardenof pleafant Flowers, Lhe Garden of plealant Flowers. £ Cwar. LXVIL, is more fitformeaté then medicine, The diftilled wateris' good ,o wath} old fores and wounds. s202iD ore Tragopozon, Goates beard, Mutt in this place fet downe but two forts of Goates beards: th i colour, the ot her red or purple, and leaue the otherkindes : fome m4 cy a . ( ni in the Kitchin Garden, and others ina Phyficall Garden. Pokenal 1. Tragepogenflere ceruleo. Blew Goates beard. All the Goates beards hatie long’; narrow and feaues, with a whité line dowhe hic middle of eds iti one eee ing : the whole yeeldeth milkeas the former, butfome 2. Tragopegon purpurenm, Pritple Goates beard, _ Thereis litthe difference inthis kind fiom, the forme itisa li ioe litde on meen : adarke reddifh purple colour, with fome yellow duftas it were cafty oni pecially about the ends : theroote perifheth in the like mannerasthe other. —— ei the — head thatbeareththe feed:the The Place. a? ie rage been fentvs from the Parts beyo nd the Seas, Ihaue had pe ie ta Ys whereno doubt they grow naturally wilde, as the yellow : Ith vs ; they are keptin our Gardensfot their pleafant flowers. ripe in Iuly. The Nantes, Their generall . ; name is after th e Gr ; Baie ne Tragopozon,which isin Lt tine,Barbe birci:In Englith, Goatesbeecke ard ;word the head offeede whenit is re ‘i Winde, caufing that name for the refem otheuery day clofe it felfeat noone f (as ! peneth notag Called it, Goero bed at noone: FheVettues, bh awekindes area little more bitter and more binding allo Therootes ofthee ’ Ethe French orA frican Marigolds thete are three kindesas principall, andof OC gach of themboth with fingle and double flowers’: of thefé}‘fo Baie diuerfity isobferued inthe colourofthe flowers , as well/as in the forine orlarge! nefle, fothat as you mayrhere fee,T have expectd eight differences , atid Fabius Cos lumna nine orten,in regard hee maketh a diverfity of the paler and deeper yellow co# lour: andalthoughthe lefferkinde, becaule ofi-s euill {ent, is held dangerous,yet for’ the beauty of the flowerit tindetlyroome in'Gardéns, 1.Flos Afrisanus maior fine maximus multiplex, Thegreat double French Marigold. This goodly double flower, whichis the graceandglotyofia Garden in'théetimeof hisbeauty,rifeth vp witha ftraight andthard rowad greene ftalke, chauing fomecrefts! oredgesallalong the ftalke, defit, with long winged Ieancs. ,,eusry One whereofis like: vnto the leafe ofan Ath, being compoled of many Jong and narrow leaues,{nipt aboue the edges, ftanding by couples oneagainit another, with an odde one attheend, ofa darke or full greene colour : theftalke rifethto,bethree or fourefootc high, and diuideth it felfe from the middicthereof into many branches, fet with fuchlike leanes to the toppes ofthem, euery one bearing one great double flower , ofa gold yellow colour aboue, and piler vnderneath, yet fome arc of a pale yellow , and fome betweene both,and all thee rifiag from one and the famefeede: the ower, before it be blowne open, hathall the leauss hollow ; but whenit i$ full blowne ‘open, it fpreadethit felfe larger then any Prouitice Rofe,ot equrall vntoit at the leaft,if itbein good earth, and tifeth out of a loag'gteene huske,{triped or furrowed,wher¢in after the floweris paft, (which ftandeth in his fill beauty-a moneth: , and oftentimes more, and being gathe- ted, may be preferued in his full beauty for tivo moneths after’, if itbe ferin water) ftandeththe feede, fet thicke and clofe together vpright, whichis blacke, fomewhat flat and long : the rvote is full of fall (triags , wherebyit ftrongly comprehendeth in the ground : the flowerof this,as wellas the fingle,is ofthe very fmell ofnew waxe, or ofan honie combe,and not of that poifonfull fent of the {maller kindes. x. Flos Africanus maiorfimplex. The great fingle French Marigold. The Time. They fowet in May and Iune: the feedeis ESV “Flas Aficanus, The French Marigold, rifeth vp greaterand ftronger then the Vipers graffe, bearing at the toppe a eA i a head or huske, compofed ofnine orteri long narrow leaues ° the fharpe metOth whereofrife vp abouethe flower in themiddle, which is thicke aaa double ofa what broad and large {pread , ‘of ablewith ath:colour > with fome whitith thr is mong them, fhutting or clofing it felfe within the greene huske eueryday, th se hh deth blowing, vatill about noorie, and opening notit felfe acaine vatill the ne i ning: the head or huske , ‘afterthe flower is paft, andthe fede neare tip 0 ait felfe'; the long'léaties thereof, ‘which clofed not before boutthe ftalkes"and thewing the fede , ftatiding at now falling diet et i the firft clofe seaerhiet, ‘at i doune atthe toppe of them bat after they haue flooda while. it {preadeth it fle es -_a =ae aay re ae mais ifitbe not gathered : the fede ‘long, round, gh, like the feede of the Vipers graffe g ee onfieeh heee Gran; but petitheth 4 fobseat Bre ace at yeare remaining greene all Winter, and ret ingth Rie yeae*i: aA a ensate thenthe yellow kinde expreffed inthe Kicchity Garden ; and therefore fira: ter for medicine then for meate, butyeris vied asthe yellow-kindcis,which! then This fingle Marigold is in all thiags’fo like vnto the former, that it is hard to difeerneit from the double, but by the flowers , onely the ftalke will be browner then the double; and to my:beft obferuation, hath and doth euery yeare rife fiom the feede ofthe double flower; fo that when theyare in flower , you may feethedifference (or hot much before, whenthey are in bud) this'fingle flower euerappearing with thrums inthe middle, andthe leaues, which arethe bordetor pale ftanding about.them,{hewing hollowor fiftulous, which after lay themf¢lues flat and open (and the double flower appearing withall his leaues folded clofe together , without any: thrum atall) and are of a deeperorpaler colour,as inthe double. 3. Flos Africanus fitnlofo flore fimplex cx multiplex, Single and double French Marigolds with hollow leafed flowers. As the former two greateft forts hauerifen from the fecde of one and the fame (1 Cca mecan¢e |