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Show ers. The Gardenof pleafant Flow : Seen led all tl es, that cal fe tim thofe sof calie times, | of ac Lhe Garden of pleafant Flowers. deepeb deepe blewco- cke ; forthe Violet it felfe is like« ions,ft Sees: wd thelike, bla h the Vaciainm blackel, ace, where he callet nee blacks in he lo wife called : blacke in oe at lie rec koned them to be bothof onecolour, ‘AD it, — ee Violetis not blacke, as we doc diflinguith of HXJ that olour and we know thec : is Starry Iacinth, being both of ‘bed ;. ee blacke in thefedayes. But the ee SN inthofe places where Virgil Hie sibsitcacteiema this Susty laclg frequent, then any other liued, perfwadeth me to thiake, herwile ‘they can fhewgreaterprobabi- The Time. Thefe flowerin Aprill, but the firftis theearlictof thereft, andis in flower prefently after the carly Starry Iacinth,before defcribed, The Names. fo deepe 2 purple pewE ak them, by Vaciniam : Lecothers iudge otherwilc, fome, Hyacinthus Boraginis flore. The firlt was fent out of ‘Turkic , by the litie. canti nus nigra tus By zanti s nthus Stella 1. Hyacijathus nameofSu/amgiu/, by which namelikewife diuers other things haue beene fent, fo barren and barbarousis the Turkifh tongue. radice, roote. TheStarry Iacinth of Turkie with the blacke ic Star y a and greene, : thinne, 7 fae adlieredly “i= oe ee eee bigneffe ofthe i ; of Conftantinopl e hath three or foure frefii Tacinth eletexteothe the flowers 1 ; theleaues ofdher colourabusiammen alle a-blew Se oe oo ofa pale orblea eo a ftarre, {preading open like a ee : ate Pr , looily fomewhat are fomewhatlong, and ftand asit were p be aélytogether asthe flowers of other kindes :it feldome mit!" , ground vponoe lying that heanie, fo are iss Ooa eenk the ripe! oe " Bee withthe wet,oF are bitten withthe frofts, or both, fo that theyfe anc ong. | : round, , others in bigge reafonable and infome, {mall is the roote it ; ee ba oe peelings, purplifh or reddifh within, but couered with deepe fing a and blacker purple onthe outfide, with fome long and thickewhite fibres, like hanging at the bottomeof them,asis to be feene in many otherIacinths: the ae t felfe for the moft part doth runne downewards, fomewhat deepinto the ground, Hyacinthas Stellatus Aflivis maior.The greater Summet Starry Tacinth. , This late Tacioth hathdiners narrowgreene leaues, lying vpon the ground , fome- whatlike the leaues ofthe Englith Iacinth, buc-ftiffer and {tronger ; among which ris {eth vp around ftiffe ftalke, ‘bearing many flowersat theto ppe thcreof, and at euery foote-ftalke of the fowersa {mall hort leafe, of a purplith colour : the flowers are ftarre-like, of a tine delayed purplifh colour,tetiding toa pale blew ot ath colour,ftriped onthebacke ofcucry leafe, and hauing-a pointed vmbonein the middle, with fome whitiflpurplethreeds aboutit, tipt with blew : the feede is blacke; round 5 and fhining,like'vnto the feede ofthe Englifh lacinth, but not fo bigge : theroote is round and white, hauing fomelong thickerootesvnderit, befidesthe fibres, as is viuall in manyothet:Iacinths, Hyacinthus Stellatus Aftivu minor.The lefter SummerStarry Tacitith, This leffer Tacinth hath diuers very long, narrow,and fhining greene leanes,{pread 2. Hyacinthas Stellatus Byxantinus maior. The greater Starry Iacinth of Conftantinople. This Iacinth mayrightlybe referred to the formerIacinth ofConttantinople, * calledthe greater, itis fo likethereunto, that anyonethat knoweththar, will i {ay, thacthisis another of tharfort, but greater asit isin all his parts, bearing lrg? leaues by much, and more ftore, lying vpon the ground roundaboutthe rooresl beareth many lowe ftalkes offlowers, as bleake, and ftanding as loofly as the former: onely the roote of this, is not black on the ontfide, as the other,but three times biggth vpontheground round aboutthe'roote, among whichrifeth vp a very {hort round ftalke, not aboue twoinches high,carryingfix or feuen {mall flowers thereon, oneach fide ofthe ftalke,like both in formeand colourvnto the greater before'defcribed, but leffer by farre : the feede is blacke, contained in three {quare heads: the roote is {malt and white, couered with abrowne coate, and Kauing fomefiich thicke rootcs among the fibres,as areamongtheother, |“. The Place. Both thefe Iacinths grow naturally in Portugall, and from thence haue been brought,by fuch as fecke out for rare plants, to make a gaine and pros 3. Hyacinthus Stelatns Byzantinus alter, fineflore beraginis, Theother Starry lacinth of Conftantinople. fit by them, The Time. This other Lacinth hathfor the moft part onely foure leaues, broader ‘ind greentt then thefirft, but not fo large or long as the fecond : the ftalke hath fine or Gx flowers vponit, bigger and rounderfet,like other ftarry Iacinths, of a more perfect or deepet blew then cither of the former, hauing a whitith greene head or vmbone in themiddle, befet withfix blew chiuesor threeds, tipt with blacke, fo clofly compaffing the vmbone, that the threeds feeme fo many prickes ftticke into'a clubbe or head fom therefore haue likenedit to the flower of Borage, and fo hauecalledit : after the flow ers are paft, come vp round vhite heads, wherein is contained round and whitefeedt! the roote is ofa darke whitifh colour on the outfide 5'and fometimes a little reddi withall. ‘The Place, Thefirft and the laft hdue beene' brought from: Conftantinople; fi firftamong many other rootesyandthe aft by the Lord Zouch, as Lobe witneffeth. The fecondihath beenfentvsout ofthe Lowe- Countries b# fromwhencetheyhad it,we do notcertainly know, They growe with ,vsi our Gardeasfufficiently, © The former haue their namesin their titles, and are notknowne ynto vs by any other namesthat I know; butas I {aid before, the laftis called by TH . They both dowerin May, and not before : and their feed is tipe in Iuly. The Names. Some doecall thefe Hyasinthus Lufitanicus, The Portugalllacinth. Chic fius,whofirft fet out the defcriptions ef them, called them asis expreffed theirtitles;and therefore we haueafter the Latine name giuentheir in Englith, accordingasis fet downe. Or if youpleafe, you maycall them, Thegrea ter andthe leffer PortugallJacinth, Hyacinthus Stelarisfloré cineree, The alhicoloured Starry Iacinth : ~ Thisath goloured. Iacinth, hath his leaites very-like vatothe leaues ofthe Englifh Tacinth,and {preading ypon thegrdundin the famé manne, among whichrife vp one or twoftalkes, feat the toppe witha numberoffmall ftarre-like owers, bufhing big. L gcse |