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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, leafe thereof hath on the outfide a certaine bunchor eminence,of a darkepurplith co. Jour, and ontheinfidethere lyeth in thofe hollow bunched places , cert vitie cl ‘ate drops of waterlike vato pearles, of a very fweete tafte almoft like fugar : inthe midt ofeach flowerisa long white ftile or pointell, forked or divided at the end, andfixe whitechiuestipt with ycllowith pendents, ftanding clofe about it : after the fowets are patt,appeare fixe fquare {edevellels ftanding vpright,wingedasit were or welted ontheedges, yet {eeming but three fquare,becanfe cach couple ofthofe welted edges areioyaed clofer together, wherein are contained broad, flat, and thinne {eedes, ofa palebrownifh colour, like vato otherLillies, but muchgreater andthicker alfo, The ftalke of this plant doth oftentimes growflat, two,three,or fourefingers broad, and then bearethmany moreflowers , but for the moft part {mallerthen when.it beareth roundftalkes. And fometimes it happeneththeftalke to be diuidedat the - , cattying two orthréetufts ofgreene leaues, without afly flowers on them. And fometimes likewife, to bearetwo or three rowes or crownes of flowers one aboue another vpon oneftalke, which is feldomeand {carcefeene, and befides, is but meere accidental; the whole plant andevery part thereof, as well rootes, as leaues and flowers, doefmmell fomewhatftrong as itwerethe fauour ofa Foxe, foshatif any doe but come neareit, he cannotbutfinell ir, which yet isnot vawholfome. Thaue not obferued any variety inthe colour ofthis lower, more then thatit will befairer in acleare openayre, and paler, oras it were blafted ina muddy or{moakie ayre. Andalthough (oral haue boafted of one with white flowers , yet I could neuer heare that any fuch hathendured in one vniformecolour. The Place. This plane wasfirft brought from Conftantinople itito thefe Chriftia — , and by therelation of fomethat fent it, growethnaturally ia enfia, The Time. It fowreth moft commonlyin the end ofMarch,ifthe weatherbe milde, and {pringeth not outof the ground vntill theend of February , or begitning of March, fo quickeit is in the {pringing : the heads with feed are ripe intheend of May. The Names. Itis offome called Liliam Perficwm , the Perfian Lilly : but becaufe wet hau another, which is morevitally called by that name,as fhall be haué inthe next Chapter, I had rather with Alphonfus Panciusthe Dukeofhewed fFlo rence his Phyfitian, (whofirft fent the figure thereof vnto M®, Tohnde Brancion)call it Corona Imperialis, The Crowne Imperiall, then by any ¢ thername, as alfo for thatthis name is now more generally receiued. | hathbeen\fent fent al alfo by the name T#/ai and Tu/chai,and ; Tarfaniji fants being, asitis like, the Turkith names. aR HITE Sk eT The Vertues. any %Phyfic FeSor; a vaiit, know ofnon iyficall Vertues thatare in e,ho any hath been found out : norwithftanding the ftrong fent r haue heard tht! would per{watt iitmight t micht be beans! applyed to good purpofe. CHap. Il. Liliam Perficam, The Perfian Lilly. ‘Tu eRe of the Perfian Lilly is very like vnto the rootofthe CrowneImptt! : we beoi eeeiaries t sabes in like maner enery yeate,hauinga hole therin likew" AKIDS aban nita Xe Grew, but whiter, rounder; and a little ke it; from whencefpringeth vparound whitithlonger,fmialler,a™ greene ftalke, ™ ue SS - ones 1 Gorena Toiperdalis, The Crowne teaperial, 2 Lihites Peiificims, ThePethan Lilly. 3 Martegen Imperiale, The Mattagon }mperiall, C3 |