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Show The Garden of plea/ant blowers. : The Garden ofpleafant Flomes; | Hyacinthus Antummalis maior .T he greater AutumneTacinth, long _ we a grecrie laut The greater AutumneTacinth hathfiue or fix very nee a a Ke lonely toppe Jying vpon the ground ; the ftalkes are fet atthe coloured three S, tipty a Wy pale fome with r, colou ofa pale blewifh purple growing ripe ae nthereit time n ftanding about the headin the middle, whichi {mall blacke feede, and roundifh: the roote 1s great and white on the outfide. {cription ofa Sea Lacinth, which(as you fee) take to be ithe ser} or Se4.Onion all his parts fo nearely refembling a Iacinth, that 1 know not whereto ranke him beteer thenin this place, or rather notany wherebut‘here, You fhall hauerhe deferi tit thereof,andthenler cheiudicious pafle their fentence,as they thinke meeteff, Sea The Squill of Sca’Ontda'tas thanivdoe callityhath divetsthicke leatesbroad. lone greene, and Hollo-viflyit the middle,and 'withameminentor fvelling tibbe aWaloee the backe ofthe leafe;(Prelate it'as Phaue feene ix; hauing thor forth his taues in the fhip by the'way, as the Mariners that broughtditersroores from out ofthe Straights, Hyacinthus Autumnalis minor.The lelfer Autumne Jacinth, This leffer facinth hath fuch like long and {mall leaues, but narrower thenthefor. mer: the ftalkeis not full fo high, but beareth as many flowers on it as the other, which are of a pale or bleake purple colour, very likevnto italfos the roote and feed are likethe former, but {maller. Thefe bothfor the moft part, beare their flowers and nd, {eede before thegreene leaues rife vp much abouethegrou Pigre albo,” kindés 6Fbothforts ; fo Tthinkeie hor amiiffe, to finiththis ofheTacinthywiththede. Thereis a kinde hereof found that beareth white flowers,not differing in any other thing from the fimaller purplekindelaft mentioned. The Place. did fell chéty to meeand Otheis for'our'vley lying vpomthe ground, foriewhatlike vnrotheleatiés’ ofa Lilly? chefespriagvp after the flowers: are paft, andthe feed ripe they abiding all the Winter, and thé next Spring, yntill'thé heare ofthe Simmer hath {pent and'confumedthen, and theiaboutche end of Auguftyor beginning of Septem- ber, theftalke with flowers ariferliour of the broanda foore‘anda halfe high, bearing many ftattedlike flowery on the toppe;in.a long{pike one aboue ‘another, flowring by degrees,the lowclt fir, and fovpiwards, whereby'it is long inflowring very like, as well in forme as bigneffe,to'the fowers ofthe gteat Starre of Bethlehem @hefe how. ers [haue likewife feene footing out of fome ofthe roots; that haue been brouehtin thelike manner: )aftérehe Howvers atepalt , ‘therecome vp intheir places 'thicke and three {quate heads,wheria is contained fuchlike Hat,black, and'tound Ieedas the Spa- Thefirft andlaft are oely kept in Gardens, and not knowne to vs where their naturall place ofgrowing wilde may be. Thefecond groweth wildein manyplaces ofEngland. I gathered diuers rootes for my Garden, from the foote of a high banke by the Thamesfidy, at the hither end of Chelfey, before you come atthe Kings Barge-houle. nifh duskie Iacinth before defcribed did bearBurgreatcr 4 thé rootis great & white. couered with many peelings or couerings, as is plainly enough feen to any that kn them, andthar fometimes-wee haue-had rootes; that haue-beeneas biggeasa pretry childes head, and fometimes two growing together, cach whereof wasno leffe then eerie is {aid of the other, Scila rubrafive Pancratium verum, Theted Sea Onion. The Time. Theroote ofthis Squill, is greater oftentimes then ofthe former; theouté? corres Thegreateft flowreth inthe end of Iuly, and in Auguft. The other in Auguft and September, you fhall {eldomefee this plane with flowets and greene leaues at one time together. The Names, They haue their names giuen them,as they are expreffed in their citles, by all former Writers, except Dalefchampius , or hee thatfer forth tha or peelings being reddifh, bearing gcearer, longer,ftiffet.and more -hollow-leaues in amannervpright: this bringeth fuctva like ftalke:and flowers,as the former doth. 4s Fabianus Ilges; Apothecary tothe Duke of Briga, did’ fignifie by the figure thereof drawne and fent to'Cluftus. The Place. : They grow alwayes neare the Sea; and.neuer farre off fromit, butoften onthe very baich of the Sea, where it wafheth oner them all along the great worke printed at Lyons; for hee contendeth with many words, thi thefe plants can beeno Iacinths, becaufe their howers appeare before theif coafts of Spaine, Portugal} and Italy ; and withinthe Straightsin many leaves in Autumne,contrary to the true Iacinth,as he faith: andtherefore he would faine haucit referred to Theophrastus bulbusim libreprimecap.11. al calleth ithis Tiphyums mentionedin that place, asalf{o Balbus «flivas Dale asitis related. champy. Howlocuer thefe things may carry fome probability in them,yt the likenefleboth ofrootes, and flowers efpecially, hath caufed very lear ned Writers to entitl¢them as is fet downe, and therefore Imaynotbut let them paffe in thelike manner, The Time.- The time wherein they,flower, is expreffed to be in. Aueuftand Septem: ber: the feedeto beripein O@ober and Nouember, and Phe greene i to {pring vp in Nouember and December. The Names. The Vertues, Both the rootes and the leaues of the lacinths are fomewhat cold and drying,butthe feedemuch more, Itftayeth the loofnetfe of the belly. I islikewife faid to hinder young perfons from growing ripe too foone,the roote being druake in wine, It helpeth them alfo whofe vrine is ftopt, isauaileable forthe yellow Iaundife; bucas you heare {ome are deadly4"(0 cattell, I therefore wifh all inany inward phy ficke. places it will not abide in any Gardenfaire fromthe Sea, no nov:in Italy; to bee well aduifed which ofthefe they willy Scilla alba, The Sea Onion or Squill. Aslendedthe difCourfe ofboth the true and the baftard Daffodils » With the o El kings _ Thefe arecertainly thetrue kindes ofScie that fhould bee vfed in medic cines, although (as Clufiusreporteth) the Spaniards forbade him'to tafteof thered Squill, as of 2 moft ftrong and prefent poifon. Pliny hath made more forts then can be found out yetto this day with vs: that Scid/ethatis called Epimenidia, becaufe it might be eaten,is thought to be thegreat Ormiz thogalum, ox Starreof Bethlchem. Paneratinmis,I know , and asl faid before, referredto thar kindé of baftard Sea Daffodill, which is fet forth before in the end of the hiftory of the baftard Daffodils ; and: diners alfo would make the Narciffis tertins Atstthioli, which call the true Sea Daffodill, tobe a Pancrativm;but {ecing Diofcorides (and ne other is again{t him) M . maketh |