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Show The Garden of plea/ant Flowers. The Gardenof pleafant Flowers’ 2. Crocms Byzantinns argentens. The filuer coloured Autumne Crocus, "This Saffron flower{pringeth vp in OGober; and feldome before, with three or | foure fhort greene leaucs:atthe firft, but growing longer afterwards, and intheandmidf fel. of them prefently after they haue appeared, one flower forthe moft part, dome two,confifting offix leaues, the three outermoft whereof are fomewhatlarger then the other three within, and are ofa pale bleake blew colour, almoft white, which manycalla filuer colour,thethree innermoft being ofa purer white , with fome yel. low chiues in the middle, and alonger pointell ragged or fethered at the toppe: this very feldomebearethfeede, but when the yearefalleth out to bee very milde ; itis fmall, round,and ofa darke colour: the rooteis pretty bigge, and rounder thenany ether Crocus, without any flat bottome, and couered witha darkerufict skinne, 3. Crocus Pyrenauspurpurew, The purple mountaine Crocus. This purple Saffron fower ofthe Autumne, rifeth vp but with one flowervfually, yet fometimes with two one after another,without any leaues at all,in September,ot fometimes in Auguft , ftanding vpona longer foote-ftalke then any kinde of Saffron flower, either ofthe Spring or Autumne,, and is as largeas the fower ofthe greatet purple Saffron flower of the Spring, ofa very deepe Violet purple colour, which de cayeth afterit hath ftood blowne three or foure dayes , and becommeth more pil hauing in the middle fome yellow chiues, andalong fether topt pointell , branched, andrifing fometimes abouethe edgesofthe flowers : about a moncthafter the flowes are paft, and fometimes not vntillthe firft ofthe Spring,there rifeth vp three orfout long and broad greene leaues , witha white line in euery oneof them, like vntotht firft purple Vernallkindes, which abide vatill theend of May or Tune: the rooteis {malland white onthe outfide, fo like vntothe roote of the leffer Vernall purpleot jy white Crocus, that it cannotbediftinguifhed, vntill about the cnd of Augutt, whenit doth begin to thoor, and then by the‘early fhooting vpa long white fprout for flower, itmay be knowne. I neuer could obferuc it to giue any feede, the Winter (as I thinkt) commingonit foquickly after the lowring, being the caufe to hinder ir, 4.Crecus montanes Autumnalis. The Autumne mountaine Crocus . The mountaine Saffron flower{pringeth vplater then any of the former, and doth are paft, appearing firft with three or foure {hort greene leaues,like vnto the Byzantine not appearevntill the middle or end'of O@ober, whenallthe fowers of the fore! Crocus, and afterwardsthe flowers betweene them,which are ofa pale or bleake blew tending toa purple, the foote-ftalkes ofthem being fo fhort, that they {carce appeatt aboue ground at the firtt , but after twoor three dayes they grow little higher :tht roote is very great and: flatbottomed > conered with skinny, ith agrayifh dus j Kic coate of grey and encreafeth verylittle or feldome. The Place. _ The feuerall places ofthefe Saffron flowers. are} inthel titles ; the others hauebeenefound out » fome Spadepomehedfor ia another, as the {mall purple and white, and ftript white in Spaine t + the yellow in Mefiaabout Belgrade, the great purple in Italy ,and now by fee friends helpes.as haue fent them,they profperas well in our Gardens, 8i# their naturall places. Yet I muft giueyouthisto vnderftand, that fome? thefe formerly expreffed,haue beenraifed vp vnto vs feede. by the fowing ofthes The Time. Their feueralltimes are fikewife ex inthe i defcriptio ipti ns, for fom™ their expreffed in e : z forth their thew pleafant flowsrs in the Spring , wherein a thethreefit s ~ pone ne common yellew fpring-Crocus; 2) uer coloured Autumne Crocus, Fras, vernsfativns hublissRhetucoatiron. 3 ¢ 70— ut un 4s. The purple monntame Crocus. egrearer Spanith Nat. 5 |
