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Show ee Nd : F he Garden ofplealant Flowers. frombe. es,and it may be come thither ote le,among.many otherforts of root them in our : : ree haue vatars) ondthe Bofphorus in Afia; we t is probable,ifthey be : ag ng(i fpru are s ort Theother twof we could ot ee is rom Confrom the feede ofthe two former; forr knowledgeof any tuch. ftantinople,as ifthe Turkes had neue The Time. perate, butthe firtt is Shay flower in March or Aprill, asthe yeare istem fooneftvp out of the ground. skie coloured Grape-flower,his flowersare very pure white,alike {parfedly fet onthe ftalkes,but a little lower and fmallerthen it,in all other thingsthere is no difference. Hyacinthus Botroidesflare alto rabente. The bluth Grape-flower. The roote ofthis Grape-flower groweth greater, then citherthe skie coloured ,-or white Grape-flower,and eldome hath any {mall reotesor of-fets, asthe orherhatiei; his leaues alfoarelarget,and fomewhat broader; the flowersare of a pale, orbleake bluth colourout of a white,and are alittle larger,: and growa little higherand fuller of flowers then the white, t The Places: The Names. They naturally growin many places both of Germany and. Hungary ;in ie by the name ofMu/choro. Thetwo former haue beene fent from Turk no root Spaine likewife,and on Mount BaldusinItaly , and. Narbonein France, a faying that miand Dipcadé. Matthiolus calleth it Balbus vomitorius,doth moft properly doth more provoke vomit thenit. Cafpar Bauhinusd Mu/caré, byall Hercalle ally gener moft is It atas. Mofch callit Hyacinthus mble the Grapebarifts and Florifts, yet becaufe it doth fo neerely refe s, to put a diffe. hata Mufc maior ides Botro athas Hyaci t namedi flower, | haue boutthe borders ofthe fields : wehanethem in our Gardens for delight, The Time. Thefe fowet fromthe beginning of, March, or fooner fometimes, vntill the beginning ofMay. y gre rence fromtheleffer Grape-flowers that follow ; in Englifh , The Muske Grape-flower, or Mufcari. The Names. Hyacinshus Botroides minor carulews obfcurws, The darke blew Grape-flower. They are moft commonly called, Borrgédes, but. moretrucly Botryodes, of Bors the Greeke word ,,.whichfignifieth,abunch,or,cluftey of grapes,: theground, This Grape-flowerhath manyfmall,fat, and weake leaues lying vpon nc after fadgree a of and vp, g commin firft whichare fomewhat brownith at their wards, hollow on the vppetfide, and round vnderneath, among which rife vp round, f{mooth, weakeftalkes; bearing atthe toppe many {mall heauicbortle-like flowers, !! avel) fhapelikethe former Mufcari, but very thicke thrufttogether, fmaller, and of net whenitis Starch vnto like fmell, {trong very a of colour, darke or blackith blew nut. made, and hot: the rooris round, and blackifh without, beirig compaffed with a berof{mallrootes, or offets round aboutit, fo thar it will quickly choke a ground,! it be {uffered longinit. For whichcaufe, moft men doe caft itinto fome by-corntt,! they meancto preferueit; or caft it out of the Garden quite. Alter maier. There isanother of this kindethatis greater, both in leafe and flower, and differet! notin colouror any thing elfe. Hyasinthus Botroides ceruleus amenus.The skie coloured Grape-flower. This Iacinth {pringeth vp with fewer leaues then thefirft,and not reddith but gret at his firft appearing the leaues,when theyare full growne,are long and hollow,Ii the former,but greener, fhorter,and broader, ftanding vpright and notlying alo% vpon thegroundasthey dot : the flowersgrow at the toppeoftheftalke, morefp*" fedly fet thereon, and not fo thicketogether, but like athinne bunch of orapes, an bottle-like asthe former, ofa peifeét blew or skie-colour., enery flower having fot white {pots about the brimmes.of them : this hatha very fweer{mell, nothing Tiketht former: this roote is whiter, and doth net fo muchencreafe asthe former yet pleat full enough. “Wg The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. i Lobelitis calleth the whiteone, Dépeadsflere alvo,transferring the name Dipcadi, whereby the Ade/cari is called:to this Iacinth, as ifthey were.both onc. Their feuerall names, whereby they. areknowneand called, :are.fet downe in theirtitles. The Dutchmen, callthem.Driuckens,as I faidbefore. Some Englifh Gentlewomencall the white Grape-flower Pearles ofSpaine. 1. Hyacinthus Comofas albus, The white hairedYacinth, This Iacinth doth more neerly refemble the, Grape-flowers., then the: faire haired Tacinthsthat follow, whereofit beareth the name,iq thawit. hath ng haireorthreeds: at the toppe ofthe ftalke or fides ; asthey ; and therefore 1 haue placed it, next .wato: them,and the otherto follow it,as.bcing of another kinds. The roorhercofis blackith, a little long and reund, from whencexife vp three, or foune feaues., being, {mooth and whitifh, long, aarrow, and hollow, like atrough ox gurtet,onthe ypperfide samong, which the ftalke rifeth vp a foote high ormore,bearing atthctoppestucrs fall how, ers, fomewhatlike the former, butnotfo thicke fet cogether, beng alittle longer,and, larger, and wider at the mouth, and as it were dwidedinto fixedges, ofa.darkeWhitify colour, with fome blacker {pots aboutthie brimmeson the intides the heads or feedeveffels are three {quare,:and fomewhar larger , then the heads of any ofthe formex leffer Grape-flowers, whereinis contained roundblacke feedé. ” ri 2. Hyacinthus Comofus Byxantinus, The Turkic faire haired Iacinth. ‘This othet Iacinth which came from Conftantinople, is fomewhat like the former, but tharit is bigger, borh in rooteyand Jeafe,and, flower, andbearing greater ftore of Hyacinthus Botreides ramofus.The branched Grape-flower. _ Ofthis kinde, there is another found to grow with many branches of flowers, bit flowers on thehead ofthe ftalke : the lower flowers; although they, hauefbort ftalkes at theirfirft dowring, yet afterwards the ftalkes growlonger, andthofe that are lower, king out from the fides of the greater ftalkes or branches : the leaues as all the rete ftand out further then thofe that are -higheft; ‘whofe foot-ftalkes are fhort, and al- Hyacinthus Botroidesflorealbo. The white Grape-flower. duskie'greenifh purple colour : the whole ftalke of, flowersfeem likea Pyramis, broad belowe,and {mallaboue, oras other‘compare‘it, toa water {prinkle syet neither of theplantis greater then the former. The white Grape-flower hath his greene leaues ‘alittle whiter, then sheblew‘i sie moft clofe rorhe ftemme,and ofa moreperfect purplethen any, below, whichare of2 both thefe lacinths haue anythreeds atthe tops ofshe ftalkes yas the operfollowing e 3. Hyacinthus |