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Show ~ Fbe ordering ofthe Garden ofPleafire. The ordering ofthe Garden of Pleafure. our feedesin thelecs ofred Wine,youfall hauc the flowers ofthofe plantsto beof willhaue Lillies or Gilloflowers to be ofa Scarlet red colour, apurplecolour. Ifyou ion oa (hall put Vermill or Cynaber betweene the rinde andthe {mall heads growing aboutthe rooterifyou will hauethemblew,you thalidiffolue Azur or Byfe between thetindeandthe heads : if yellow, Orpiment : ifgreene, Vardigreafe , and thusof any'other colour. Others doeaduifeto open thehead of the roote, and poureintoit any colour diffolued , fothat there benofretting or corroding thing thereinforfeare ofhurting the roote, and looke what colouryouputin, iuft fuch or neare vntoitthal thecolour ofthe fower bee. Some againe doe aduife to water the plants you would have changed, with fuchcoloured liquoras you defire the flower to beof, andthey fhall growto befo. Alfoto make Rofes tobec yellow , that you fhould grafta white Rofe (fomefay a Damaske) vpon a Broome ftalke, and the flowerwill be yellow,fuppofing becaufethe Broomefloweris yellow,thereforethe Rofe will be yellow. Some afarmethe like, ifa Rofe begrafted ona Barbery buth, becaufe both the bloffome and the barke ofthe Barbery is yellow, &c. In the like mannerfor fents, they hauefet downein their writings, that by putting Cloues,Muske, Cinamon, Benzoin, orany other fuchfweete thing,bruifed with Rofe water,between the barke and the body of trees,the fruit of them will fmelland tafte of the famethat is put ynto them; and if they bee put vntothetoppeof therootes, or elfebound vntothe head of theroote, they will caufeche flowers to fmell of that fent the matterput vnto themis of: asallo to fteep the feeds ofRofes,andotherplants in the wateroffirchlike fweet things, and then to fowethei,andwater themmorningand euening with fuch like liquor, vutill they be grownevp; befidesannmber of fuchlike rulesand directions {et downeia bookes, {o confidently, as if the matters were without all doubt or queftion : when as without all doubt and queftion I will affureyou, that they areall bur meereidle tales & fancies,withoutall reafon ortruth,or fhadow ofreafon ortruth ; Forfents and ‘\, / colours are bothfuch qualities as follow the eflence ofplants, euen as formesare al{o; \ and one may-as well makeany plant togrow of what forme you will, asto makeit 0 whatfent or colour you will; andifany-mat-can forme plantsat his willandpleafurt, hecandoeasmuch' as ‘God himfelfe that created them. For the things they would | adde nto the plants to giuethem colour, areall corporeall, or ofa bodily fubftance, _ and whatfoeuer fhouldgiue any colour vato liuing and growing plant, mutt be {pi te : for nofolide corporeall fubftance can ioyneit felfe with the life and effence of anherbeortree, and the {pirituall part ofthe colour thereofis not the famewit! the bodily fubftance, butisa meereVapourthat rifeth from the fubfance, and feedeth theplant, whereby it groweth, fo that thereisnoground or colour of reafon , thd , ace colour fhould giue colour toa growing herbe.or tree : bat for fett which is amecre vapour)youwill fay there is more probability. Yet confider: allo, that what {weete fent foeuer you binde or put vntothe rootes of herbes or trees, mul! will Aowernaturally and conftantly in the fame monethsoneyeare, that they vfe to doein another, or with but little alteration , if the yeares proue noralike kindly: As forcxample, thofe plants that doc flowerin Ianuary and February , will by noart or induftry of manbe caufed to flower in Summerorin Autumne ;and thofethat flower in Aprill and May,will not flowerin Ianuaryor February ; orthofe in Iuly , Auguft, &c. either in the Winter or Spring: but euery one knoweth their owne appointed naturall times,which they confrantly obferueand keepe, accordingto thetemperature of theyeare, orthe temper ofthe climate, being further North or South, to bring them onearlier orlater, as it doth with all other fruits, flowers, and growingereene herbes, &c. except that by chance, fome one or other extraordinarily may be hinde- red in their due feafon of fowring, and fo giue their flowers out of time, orelfeto giue their flowers twice inthe yeare, by the {uperaboundance ofnourifhment, of the mildneffe of thefeafon, by moderate fhowersofraine, &c. as it fometimesalfo happeneth with fruits, which chance, as itis{eldome, and not conftant,fo we then terme it but La/ws matare sor clfe by forcing them in hot ftoucs, which then will perifh,when they hane given their flowersorfruits. Itisnotthen, as fomehaue written , the fowing ofthe {cedes ofLillies, or any other plantsa footedeepe, orhalfea foote deepe, ortwoinches deepe,that willcaufethemto be in flower oneafter another, as they are fowneeuery moncth of the yeare ; for it were too groffe to thinke, that any man of reafon and iudgement would fo beleeue. Noris itlikewifein the power of any man, to make the fame plants to abidea moneth, two, or three, or longer intheir beauty of flowring, then naturally they vfeto doe ; for I thinke that were no humaneart, buta fapernaturall worke. For nature ftill bendeth and tendethto perfection, thatis, after lowringtogine fruit or feede; nor can it bee hindered in the courfe thereof without smanifeft dangerof deftruction, cuenasitis in all other fruit- bearing creatures, which ftay no longer, then their appointed timeis naturall vntothem, without apparent damage. Some things I grant may befo ordered in the planting, that according to thac order and time which is obferued in their planting, they fhall fhew forth their faire flowers, and they are Anemones, whichwill inthat manner, that I haue fhewed in the worke following, flower in{everall moneths of the yeare; which thing asit is incident to none orvery few other plants,and is found out but oflate, fo likewife is it knownebut wnto a very few. Thus haue I fhewed youthe true folution of thefe doubts : And although they hatie not beene amplified wich fuch Philofophicali argu- ments andreafons, as one ofgreater learning might haue done,yet aretheytruely and fincercly fer downe, thatthey may ferne tanquam galeatam, againft all the calumnies and obieétions of wilfull and obdurate perfons, that will not bereformed. As firft, that all double fowers were fo found wilde, being the workc of nature alone, and not the att ofany man , by planting or tranfplanting,at or before the new orfull Moone, orany other obferuation oftime, that hath caufed the flower to grow double, that na- be cither buried, or as good as buriedin theearth , or barke of thetree whereby the turally was fingle : Secondly, that therules and direGtions , to caufe flowers to bee of ife, {pirit, and effence of the plant,the fent'alfo will perith with the fubftance : Fora! meere fancies ofmen, without any groundofreafon or truth. Andthirdly,that there is no powerorart in man, to caufe flowersto fhew their beauty diuers moneths before their naturalltime, norto abidein their beauty longer then the appointed natural ; cise time for euery one ofthem. peas aatipins ume'corrupt and rot, and beforeit can ioyne itfelfe with «hk , heterogeneall things can bee mixed naturally together,as Iron and Clay sand no othit thing but homogeneall, canbe nourithment or conuer tibleintothe fubfance of mil or beaft : AndasthefLomach ofiman or beat altereth both formes,{ ents, and. colot! of all digeftiblethings ; fo whatfocuer fent or Colour is wholfome.and nor poyfonti! to ae receiued itito thébody of man ot beaft, doth neither change the blow ors _ _ thatcolour or fent-was receiucd : no more doth any colour or fent! eet P = ortheplants are onely nourithed by themoifture they draw naturally yt +i does wine or - otherliquor is put ynto them, and rot by any corpere h ne. cej ~~ oe orheteroge neall yy ee:: or fent, becaufet2 he earth like vnto the ftoma! Senne oe Aybetore they areconuerted into the nature and fubftanc of tt ath Br he hivpart TWideioske tS confute, thatino mameah by art emake?! ee aebiobenba crag the yeare hee will; although, as I haue here befo! snc. thachiti ai en > fhcreare the? yeare, yet Rowers for cue ry monethof : r I hopethereis i not all| ti — k ledge lowers and gardening, but knoweth thar. the fowe® = pp ~ cae t at ip the feucrall moneths of the yeare, are not one 2 toumade to slowerbyart ; but chat they are {eucrall fortsofplants,whi? 3 wh contraryordifferent colours or fents, from that they were or would be naturally, are |
