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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 8 icine TT imeuery i Purparte mae bere ‘The greater purple. Foliepole The Garden ofpleafant Flowers. aa one of the three falling leaues,this vivally. flowreth early, euen : Flowerdeluces. larger, and oo sand Feepsthe: wpinyalesle flower is ote or lecolour, a littleaboue the grouna, i i Flow. of fort later withthe shredae ftalke :this howreth The Time; | Peak another, whofe site " a ee 5 exceptthe yellow hater thenvany of the other purples. F purple roe vprightleaues are of areddith pur. ee Perpiira rabefcons — acreabet eT jf Fatwa if ing leaues:of.a blew colour. Areddish purple | awhitifh of are leaues tle neni ; a areddifh with blew fale. ee Parpure rubefeent : hingelfe differing from thelait. ? i bh cyraterenhath hisfalling leaues ofa faire gold yellow,withour anyftripe, weance blew and yellow,traucrfing one the other,and the arched leauesof a pale A lifh colour. purplecolonel with Aript falling Leaue low issoe Shoals hath his vpright leaues ofa paler purple, and the re Posseat ell ° Palepurple with And anotherlittle differing from it,but that the arched leaues are whitifh Kpaeeoete. Another whofe vpright leauesarc ofalpaleblew , andthe falling leaues yellow b colour, which{fomecalla Fwide mort,and others an haire colour ; the ‘Afaire Tour. hitoco: Jory utter vifaeriefalling leaues yellow. i Aaftatees-" tour. "And another ofthe fame colour, but fomewhat deader. riety that is not feene before. And now I will conuert my-difcourfea while likewife, pols Flowerdeluces, onely the loweft partofthe leaues and ftalke, for an inch or 7 bouts, next vnto the ground, are ofa reddifh colour, {potted with many f{pots, andt , flower, being of a meanefize, isofa deepe purplifhred or murrey colour the se flowerthroughout, except the yellow {pot in the middle of the three loweror fallis leaues, as isin all others. And laftly, thereis another fort, which is the greate(t ofall thefe ni bene row leafed Flowerdeluces, inall the parts ofit ; for the roote is greattt Thedusio thenany oftheother, being thicke and hort: the leaues are broaacr afl pany colowed Jonger, but ofthe famecolour: the ftalke is ftronger and higher then any "i eure : CHar. XX, Iris latifolia tuberofa. The Flagge or Flowerdeluce: that is, the talland the dwarfe,or the greater andthe leffer; the former called by a few) fo it isboth more defired, and of morebeauty then others, Ic isin refpeds, ofrocte,leafe, and flower, forthe forme like vnto the middlefort ofthele Pupuracerue to paflethrough the feuerall rankes of the other kindes oftuberous rooted FlowerdeJuces, called Flagges. file Here are two principall kindes oftuberous or knobby rooted Flowerdeluces; Iris bulbofa Africans ferpestrie casle. ‘The purple or murrey bulbous Barbary Flowerdelucee --"hisFlowerdeluceas it is more ftrange (that is, but lately knowneand The Vertues, And thus muchforthefe forts ofbulbous Flowerdeluces, and yet I doubt not, but that there are manydifferences,which hauerifen by the fowing of the feede, as many may obferue from their owne labours, for that euery yeare doth fhew forth fome va- ce Party ae mindanothes ofthe famefort,but ofa little paler blew. te Criviscoleris ole~ Wehaueanother fort, whofe vpright leauesare of a faire browni(hyel cose Thefeuerall names, both in Latine and Englith,are fufficient for them a¢ they are fet downe; for we know no better: Flowerdeluces hath been vfed toany Phyficall purpofes, and ferue onely to decke vpthe Gardensof the curious. ; -ofa Violet purple. Party coloure prerow veHaim:2 Hiopethtr tikethis Jaft,but thatthefalling leaues are :fapale Subcaralea labrie The Names. . Thereis not anything extant or tobe heard ; that any of thefe kindes of an etin fomethere are veines running through theyellowleaues, and fome leauesine. Papeeahi fe an edge ofa fullen darke wren about them : the vpright ab Thefe flowerin Tune, and fometimes abide. ynto July, but viually not {¢ early as the former broad leafed kindes , and are foone {poiled with wet in their fowring. them,bearing two er three flowers, larger alfothen any ofthe reft, who : falling leaues are ofa duskie yellow , and fometimes with veinesand ba ders about the brimmes, ofanother dunne colour, yet hauing that yello fpotthat is in all : the arched leaues are ofafullen pale purplifh yellows the vprightleaues of adull or duskic blewith purple colour : the heads hornes for feedeare likewife greater, and fo is the feede alfoa little. The Place. Thefe Flowerdeluces haue had theiroriginalout of Spaine and Port! Gall, as itisthought, except thofe that haue wrifen by the fowing,andthol whichare named of Africa. The Iris matororlatifolia, and the otherJr# minor, or rather Chameiris; andeach of thefe have their leffer or narrow leafed kindest bee comprehended ynderthem : Of all which in their order: And firft ofthat Flowetdelace,whiehfor his excellent beaus tieandraritie, deferueththe firft place, Iris Chalcedonicafine Safians maior.T he great Turkie Flowerdeluce: The great Turkie Flowerdeluce, hath divers heads of long and broad freth greene leaues, yet not fo broad as many other of thofe that follow, ‘one folded within ano: ther atthe bottome,as all other ofthefe Flowerdeluces are: from the middle offome one of thofe heads (for euery head of leaues beareth nota flower)rifeth vp a round ftiffe ftalke,two foote high, atthetoppe whereofftandeth one flower (for I neuer ob- ferueditto bearetwo) the largeftalmoft,butrareft of all the reft, confifting of nine Icaues, like the others that follow, but ofthe colour almoft ofa Snakes skinne,it is fo diuerfly fpotted ; for the three lowerfalling leaues are very large, ofadeepeordatke es colour, almoft blacke,full ofgrayith fpots,(trakes,and lines throughthe whole caucs, with ablackethrume or freezein the middle of each of them: thethree arched leauesthat couerthem, are of the fame darke purple colour, yetalittle paler ar the fides, the three vpperleaues are very largealfo, and of the fame colour with the lower leaues, but a little more liucly and freth, being {peckled and ftraked with whiter fpots andlines; whichleaues beinglaid in water,will colour the water into'a Violet colour, bur ifalittle Allome be put therein, and then wrung orpreffed, and the inice ofthefe Ieaues dryed in the fhadow, will giue'a colour almoftas deepeas Indico, and may {erue for thadowesin limming excellent well : the ower hath no fentthat can be perCeiued,butis onely commendablefor the beauty and rarity thereof’: it eldome bea- reth feedesinthefe cold Countries, but when it doth, itis containedingreat heads, being ee) 179 |