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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleasant Flowers, —— ot Cua. XIX, eater 5 ous rootes are o fewoforts, the onegr werdeltices that hate bulb ‘ae ne ac erd r atid oe the greater bearing large ie oNwer. prions o Rllcwet te Butbefore I give i yout he defcriec :T theleffer narroWw ; wes ha that front forece, i e Jace one ortwo inthe ais broad leafed Flowerdelu andthe other a ore ine hauethe | differ notably from the Sia 8 they Saeite ynto it, which although they s them r kindes, thatcomenextaite search refemblanice vito thofe greater * pris bulbofa prima latifolia Clufij. Clufushis firft great bulbous Flowerdeluce. othe, Jucehathdivers longand broad leaues, not ftiffe, likeall the a i eath among which vndern whitith na Heta epbetG onthe a a and ersra - 5 Not a ue fometimes feuerall {mall, fhort, flender ftalkes, fomewhatlil ae - owe peece, a flower halfe a foote high, bearing at thetop one thatftand vprig t, x om exdeluce, confifting ofnine leanes, whereofthofe three uces; theothert tethat werdel ofFlo forts other and mote clofedtogether, then in , that in other Flower : uces fall downe, turne vp their ends. little, andthofe'threeleaues of other eee . vpright likethe d ,ftan bottome doe couer them at the ole floweris ofa _ thewh : cares {mall two butare parted into two ends, like wnto ofeachofthe three middle the in fttipe long witha moft, n colouri c paleski blew, or reafonablegret, falling leaues , andin fome white, but more feldome : the rooteis ,, hauing mi couered itis ith wherew round and white, vnder the blackifhi coates thers doe thelike, I haue(as you fee) in the like matitier put it before all che efpadanal, and they ofCotduba, Lirias azales, | id Theother hath no orherriaine then asiris in'thetitle; ay: jeaues ar¢almoft wholly ofabrowne purple colour, with ayellow {pct in the middle ofthem: this asitis very rare,foit feldome beareth flowers withvs, leffe it be carefully preferued. ; The otheris faidto come from Perfia, and therefore it is fo entituled, and isastenderto bekeptasthe other. ILO and blunt at the end ; among whichrifeth vp afife round ftalke,a cubit ortwo Foor high,at the toppe whereof, out ofa skinnie huske,commeth forth one ortwo flowers confifting ofnine leaues a.peece, threéwwhereofthatare turned downewards > are lise ger and broader then the other, hating itieach ofthenva yellow Tpot, about the mid- dleofthe leafe, other three are fmall, hollow, ridged or arched, coucring the lower partnexttheflalke ofthofe fallingteaues) turning vp their ends; which are divided into twoparts, other three ftand vptighty/and are'very fimall atthe botcome.of them and broader toward thetoppe :thewholéifloweris of a faire blew colour iafter the flowergate paft, come ypithree [quave- leads; fomewhat long} and lanke, ot loole containing inthem rotind yellowith eede;whichiwhen itis ripe, willrattle by the fas king ofthe winde inthe dry huskes : the roote ofthis kinde is greater and longer then any ofthe fmaller kindes with-natrow,teaies, couered swith diners browne skinnes which feeme to be fraught with long threedsJike haires,efpecially'at the finallory : per ead of the roote, which thing you fhall notfindein any ofthe fmaller kindes, 2. Iris balbofamsior purpurea ce parturé vielaced, The paleror deeper purple great bulbous Flowerdeluce: Thefe purple Flowerdelucesdiffer not from the laft deferibed :' either intoote or leafe : the chiefeft difference :confifteth in the flowers y whichin thefe arefomewh at larger then intlicformer;and.in the one of a deepe blew: or Vidlét purple colours and inthe other ofa deepe purple coloursinall other things alike. if! Thereisalf A her oanother,in allorher things ae like vntothe formerA but only in the 8 ower whichis ofa pale or bleake blew, whichwe call an ath:colour f Flore¢ cinereg, cineregp 3. Irbulbofa maior putparca varitvata five ffriata. The great purple ftripr bulbous Flowerdchice, The Place. ‘Thefirft groweth in many places ofSpaine and Portugal!, from when Landothershaie often had it for our Gardens, but by reafon of the tendtr neffe thereof, it doth hardly endure the tharpnefle ofour cold Winters, ™ 730 4 of * This bulbous Flowetdelitce rifechivp éarly, eaenih Tatiualyoftentimes 5 wil Age orfix long and (narrow! in com parifor ofany greatbreadth;Buti’ regard OF the othes kinde) broad whitifh greet leaues, ‘créfted'or (traked on the backfide, and halferound? the infide being hollow likeatroughorgutter, white all’along theiffide of thé feafe: rootes. The floweris very {weete. This Perfian Elowerdeluce is fomewhatlikeynto the former, both in rooteandit leafe, butthat the leaues are fhorterand narrower , and the flower being much about the famefathion, is of a paleblew ruffetith colour, cach of the three lower mn ) 91g titres billbofa maiorfine’Anglita ceruleg: \’ Theblew Engliffibulbous F owerdeluces © o be Afphodi long thicke white rootes in ftead of fibres , which make them feemet Iris bulbofa Perfica. The Perfian bulbous Flowerdeluce. es other, and keepe the fame name. TheSpaniards, as he faith, called it Lirié Iris bulbofa.The bulbousFlowerdeluce. ter o 2 kindes of Flowerdeluces, and placethit in the fore ranke,callingit rir bul. bofa latifolia priwa, thatisy The firttbroad leafed Flowerdeluce, and all o- Thereis another ofthe purple kinde, whofe floweris purple, but with fome veines or ftripes of a deeper Violet colour, diuerfly running through the whole leaues of the flower. And another ofthat bleake blew or ath-colour;’ with lines and veines of purple in rire cinerea the leaues of the Aowers, fome moreorleffe then other. firiata purpi And againe another, whofe floweris of a purple colour like vntothe fecond. but": that round about that yellowfpot, inthe middle ofeach ofthe three falling lems (as ren The Time: Thefit Aowreth moft vfually not vntill May withys, yet many an fooner: but in January and February , as Clufius faith, in the naturall pl ces thereof. } The otherisas early oftentimes when it doth flower withvs. The Names, Becaule Clufius by good iudgementreferreth the firft to the Es is vfuall in all the bulbous Flowerdeluces)thereis a circle ofa pale blewor afh-colour the reft of the leafe remaining putple, as the otherparts ofthe Aoweris, E . 40 Iris bulbofa maior florerubente, The great peach coloured bulbous Flowerdeluce. _ There is anotherof thefe greater kindes, more rare then any ofthe former, not differingin roore,leafe, or flower, from the former, but onely that the flowerin this is in . Ss : ofa pale reddifh purple colour, comming fomewhatneare ynto the colour ofa peach bloffome, P 3 5. Iris |