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Show At The Garden of pleafant Flowers. Lhe Gardenof pleafant Flomers. canfe (as I take ic) this Rofe is morefrequent andviedin En lan neuer growcth fo high as the mastsfoe. bufh, bur ther e Cwar.CIX. Ref. The Rofe tree or bush, ‘T= gréatwanietic of, Rofesis much tobeadmited, beeing morethenis to bee feenein anyother fhrubby plant that [know,bothfor colour,formeand fmell, Lhauctofurnifh this garden thirty-forts atthe leaft, euery one notably diffe. ring fromthe other, and all fit tobe here entertained : forthere arefome other, that being wilde and of nobeautie or {mell, we forbeare, and leauc to their wilde habita. tions. To diftinguifhthem by their colours, as white,ted, incarnate, and yellow, were away that many might take, but I hold it not fo conuenient for diuers refpects: forfo I thould confoundithofe of, diners forts oncamong another, andl fhould not keepe that methode whichre mejeemcth moft conuenient, whichis, to place, and rankee. uety kinde,whetherfingle or,double,one next vnto the other, that fo you maythe bet ter yaderftand their varieties and differences: .I will therefore beginne with the moft ancient,and knowne Rofesto our Countrey, whether naturall or nol knownot, but affumed by. our precedent,Kings of all others, to bee.cognifances of their dignitie, the white Rofeand the red,whomhall follow the damaske,ofthe fineft{ent,and moft yfeofall the other,forts,and. thereft in their.order. weRefa Anglics albe, The Englih white Rote. tt ThewhiteRo{eis of two kindes, the one: more thicke anddouble then the other; Theonexiferh vpin fomethadowieplaces,--vntocight or ten footehigh, witha tocke ofjagreatsbignefle for aRofe. Theother growing feldome higher then.a Damaske Rofe. Some doeiudge boththefe to.be but onekinde, the-diuerfitie happening bythe ayre,or ground,orboth. Both thefe Rofes haue fomewhat{maller and whiter greene leaues then in manyother Rofes,five moft vfivdlly fer on a ftalke,and more white vader- neath, as alfoa whiter greene barke, armed with fharpe thornes orprickles, whereby they:ate foone knownfrom other R ofes,although the'onenot(0 eafily from the other: the folvers inthe oné are whitith, with aneye or fhewiof alblath, efpecially towards the ground or bottomeofthé flower, verythicke double,and clofe fet together, and for fent hereof is much better then in the white, but not comparable to theexeeblenitie' of the'damaske Rofeyet this R ofe being wall dryed arid well kept will holdbot hcolour aiidfent longer then the damaské, bee it neuer {6 well kept’ vin HRA Dawiafedea, "The Damaske RO. 0 nos The Damaske R6@ bufhis more vfually notitfed'vp to’ a Coinpetent Height to fland alone; “¢whictt we call’ Standard) ‘then any other Rofe ?’ the barke bothoF thie {tocke and bratiches,is notfully fo greene 48 fhe red oF white Rot? the leaues are greene with ateyeof white vpon'them,{o like vnto the redR ole,that there isttogreat differerice bes tweenethem, bur'that the leaues of the red Rofe {eeme to bee OF 4 darker greene, "The flowers are ofa fitie deepe blufhicolour,‘as all Know, with:fome pale-yellow threds ia themiddle, and arenotfothicke and double asthe white, nor being blowne, with fo ligeand great leaues as the red,’ but. of the mof¥excellene weet pleafant fent. far fur- paling all other R ofes or Flowers, being neyther heady nor too ftrong, nor ftuffing or Vnpleafant fweet, as many other flowers. : , 5. Rofa Prowincialis:fine Holandica Damuajcena. The great double Datnaske Prouince or Holland Roft. This Rofe (that fomecall Centifolia Batanics incarnata) hathhis barkeof areddith or browne colour, wherebyit is foone difcerned from other Rofes. Theleaues are the’bud,the beards, the threds &c: were needleffe; they are fo conueérfantin cuery ones hand;that Ithall not neede but totouch the moft fpeciall parts of the warieties of them, and leane a more exaé relation of all things incident vatothemsvnto penerall worke. tobe feene)being folded hard with {mall leaues;without any yellow almoftar allto be 2sRofedncarvata,: The Carnation Rok. The Carnation Rofeis .in.moft things; like. ynto the Jefler white rofe,both for the growing of theftocke,. andbigneffe of‘thefawer, bur thatitis more fpreade abroad EMVtren in thooteth forth many branches from the roote (andis but feldome faffered togrow ; vp asthe damaske Rofeinto ftandards)wittra greeneb arke,thinner {er with prickles, and larger and greenerleaues onthe ypperfidethen in the white, yet withan eye of white pon them, “fiuelikewifé molt viually fet vpon a ftalke, and grayith or whitith thideraeath: “TheR ofes or Flowers doe very much vaty,according totheir fireand abiding: for fome are of 4n orieiit,red or deépecrimfon colour, afd very double(although a utr fodouble asthe white) which whenir i$ fill blowne hath other Rofe; fome ofthem againe are paler,tending fomewh the largeft leanes of any arto a damaske- and fome aeof fo paleared, asthativisratherof thiecolourof the canker Rofe, yetall forthe moft part with larger leaues chetv the.damaske;:and-with many more yellow threds in themiddle : the lkewife morereddifhthen in others, andfomewhat larger, it v{ually groweth very likethe Damaskerofe,and much to thefameheight ; the flowers or rofes are of the fame deepe blufh colour that the damaskerofes are, or rather fomewhat deeper, but much thicker, broader, and more double,or fuller of leanes by threeparts almoftjthe Outer leaves turning therafelues backe, whenthe flower hath ftood long blowne, the the moft part not openingit felfe fo largely andfully as eyther the Red or Damaske Rofe. The other more white, leflethickeand.double, and opening it felfemore, and fome fo little double as but of two of three rowes, that they might be held to befingle, etall of littleornofmellatall. To defcribe youall the {euerall parts of the Role,a Rofa Belgien 4B i whenit is blown then the whiteis, andis of a pale bluth colour all the flower thoroug” out, of as {malla {ent as the white oneisalmoft. Lay This kinde of Rofe is not very great,but very thicke and double,andis very variable in the flowers,in that they willbe fo different one from another: fome being paler thea others, and fomeasit wereblafted, which’¢ommeth rior cafually, but naturally to this rofe: but the beft flowers (whereof therewill beeftill fome) will be of a bright pale rourrey colour, neerevnto the Veluet rofe,but nothing fo darkea colour. 3+ Rofa Anglica rubra, The Englifh red Rofe. The red Rofe (which Teall Englith,not only for the reafon before expreffed, but ee caule middle part it felfe: (which in all other rofesalmoft hatte fome yellow threds in them fene, the fent whereof commceth neereft vato the damaske rofe, but yetis fhortiofit bymuch, howfoeuer many doethinkeit as good as thedamask, and tothat erid I haue town {ome Gentlewomen haue caufed all their damaske ftockes tobee grafted with Prouince R ofts, hopingto haue as good watcr,and more ftofe of them'then ofdamask ofes; but in my opinion itis not of halfefogoodafentasthe water of damaske ofes: let euery one follow their own fancie. 6. Rofa Prowincialis rubra. Thered Prouinde Rofe. As the former was called incarnata, fo this'is called Batenica centifolia rubrathe dike “tence being not very: great’: the ftemmeor ftacke, andthe branches alfo in this, “eming not to be fo great but greener, the barke being not fo red’ ; theleaues of the ame largeneffe with the former damaske Prouince. The flowers are not altogetherfo 'tge,thicke and double, and ofalittle deeperdamaske or blufh colour, turning toa ted Rofe, but not comming neerethefull colour of the beft red Rofe; ofafent norfo Weeteas the damaske Prouince, but comming fomewhatneerethe fent of the ordinary Mm 3 |