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Show , TheGardenof . pleafant lowers 98eleauies a,peece ofa ike vavoshe.fowersof purple a fairePeach coloours Al 7 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. ; : ¢f SowebreadHh ~ and that to good cffe&t. It is vfed alfo for womenin long and hard trauels, where thereis dangerstoacceleratethe.birth , either the roote orthe leafe being applyed. Butfor any amorouseffeéts, I hold it meere fabulous, | er at thie bottome. the Spring, an can the Spritig}and are as large ar pe s ap " wer e flo ol wh e, ar e ndae fom erelar Therel \ itt white co colont, he former, but ofa purree white \ Antioch,that haue but fingle flowers , fomeap. ad ds of aeseaorthele Sowebreaers in Autumne, oth nd ng,a Spri the in (pearing \ ~Cuwar.XXV yo.Cyclamen vulgarefolio robwnde. ThecommonSowebread. d (whichis moft vfed in the Apothecaties\ Shops) hath ! . ne {niall long heads. thatate: Ja onéad comm ae vpon the ground , rifing from certai ucs fpr y lea “man forts doe, . -being in thelike | oreater round rootes, as vit ally moft of the former nd greene leaues, fome rou g her;aiand after {pread themfelues into the ontheBrsldedtoger m fhining, without any vee {pots on ot butn , aram ofAf s eaue thel hat like vnto e it ome, and reddith or pur plif no e nathidetad the moft'part, or but very feld vpon fmall foot-ftalkes, iy en ftand rs fowé the er: green ome N feld the moft part,before any leaues doe appeare,being {mal et ait ne elo cl 5 openfor i purple colour, yet ar ¢Fores in thole with Iuie leaues,and ofa pale u 3 oe,b rs.d othe s all ne,a agai es i vp their leati ing ir heads , rand iaewne mne flowers : after the flowers are paft, He te e Autu y othe ofthturn mafi thentheir do,hauiay inding themfelues downe in like manners the other i d.at theleatts roun fo not or en, vneu more and , at larger ewb aktcoii b tom br ner colour, and not fo bl acke on the ontlide d, ahd notflat, ofa brow edeq is rounu Sae roote the asmany ofthe others. ies iors eads ofthe Spring doc both grow on the Pyrenean Mout France ; sae ein igand in Candy, nd about Mompelier in _ Syria alfo hath yeelded fome both of the Spring and Autumne. Italy: and France of both places diuers in grow with routid and Iuic leaues But that Autumte andthe commonin Germany,andthe Lowe-Countries. ed in the Kingdom Sowebread with white flowers 5 1s reported to grow they found i ifeuer , ofmany d enquire ly Naples. [hauevery cutiouf inany parts of England, neare or farther off fromthe places where i hear hi dwell : butthey haueall affirmed,that they neuer found, oreuer any that haue found ofany of them. This onely they haue affured , thi there groweth noneintheplaces, where fome haue reported them togioh The Time. Thofe ofthe Spring doe flower about theend of Aprill, or begiatls ofMay. The other ofthe Summer, about the end of Iuneorin luly. reft {ome in Auguft, and September, othersin OGtober. The Names. The CommonSowebread is called by moft Writers in Latine, / Porcinus, and by that nameit is knowne in the Apothecaries fhops , 44 ? by thename Arthanita, according to whichname, they hanean ointmeh fo called, which is to bemade with theiuice hereof, Itisalfo called by vers other names, not pertinentforthis difcourfe. The moft v{uall se wherebyitis knowneto moft Herbarifts,is Cyclamen (whichis the Gre word) orasfomecall it Cyc/aminws, adding thereunto their other fue titles. In Englith, Sowebread. The Vertues. ois! pur, thefame for vied being proucth, incnt before remembred plainly The leaues androotes arevery effeduall for the fpleene, as the Anemone. Windeflowerandhis kindes. i He next tuberous rootedplants that areto follow (ofright in my opinion) ate the Anemones or Windeflowers , and although fome tuberous rooted plants, thatis, the Afphodils, Spiderworts,and Flowerdeluces haue beéne befordinferted, itwas , both becaufe they.were in name or forme of flowers furableto:theny whom they were ioyned vnto,and alfothat they fhould not be feuered and entreated ofin two feuerall places: the reft arenowto follow, atthe leaft fo many of them as be beautifull flowers, fizto furnith a Floritts' Garden, for niaturesdelightfome varieties andexcellencies. To diftinguifh the Family ofAzemones I may,thatis, into the wilde kindes, and into the tame or mannared,as they arecalled,,,.and both of them nourfed vpin Gardens ; and of theminto.thofethat hauebroaderleaues, and. into: thofe.that haue thinner dr more iagged leaves e:and of each ofthem, into,thofe that beare fingle flowers, and thofe that beare double flowers: Butto defcribe,the infinite,(as I may fo fay) variety ofthe colours.oftheflowers, and.to giuetoeachhis truediftin@ion and denomination, Hic /abor,hos opus eft,ir farre paffeth myability Iconfefle, andI thinke would grauell the beft experienced this day in Europe (andthe like I {aid concerning Tulipas, it being as contingent tothisplant, ais before faid of the Tulipa,to be without end in yeelding varieties: ) forwho.can fee all thevaricties-that haue {prung fronz the fowing ofthe feede inall places, feeing the variety of coloursrifen fromthence,is according to the variety ofayres & grounds wherein they arefowne,skill alfo helping nature in ordéring them aright. Forthefecde of one and the fameplant fownein dinersayres and grounds; doe produce that variety ofcolours that is much differing one, from another; whothen can difplay all the mixtures of colours in ther, to fet them. downein fo {mall aroome as this Book ? Yetas I haue done(inthe formerpatt of this Treatife) my goodwill , to expreffe as many of each kinde haue cometo my knowledge,fo ifI endeavour the like inthis, hopethe courteous wil acceptitand holdme excufed for the reft: otherwife,ifI were or could beabfolute,I fhould take from my felf and others the hope of future augmentation, or addition of any new, whichneuer will be wanting. To begin therefore with the wilde kinds (as they are fo accounted) fhall firft entreate of the Pal/atills or Pafque flowets., which are certainly kindes of wilde Anemsnes, bothin leafe and flower, as may well be difcerned by themthat areindicious (although fome learned menhauenotfo thought, as appeareth by their writings), the rootes of them making one {peciall note ofdiffererice, from the other’ forts of wilde Awemones. 1. Pulfatilla Anglicapurpurea. The purple Pafque flower, The Pafque or Paffe lower which is of out owne Country, hath manyleaues lying on the ground, fomewhatroughorhairie, hard in feeling; and finely cut'‘into many imall leaues, of'a darke greene colour, almoft likethe leaues of Carrets, but finerand fmaller, from among which rife vp naked ftalkes, rough or hairie alfo, fet about the middle thereof with fome {mall diuided leanes compaffing them, and. rifing aboue thefe leaues about a fpanne,bearing euery one of them one pendulous flower, made of fix leaues, of a fine Violet purple colour, but fomewhat deepewithall, in the middle vhereofftand manyyellow threeds, fet about a middle purple pointell : after che ris paft, there commeth vpin the ftead thereof a bufhie head of long feedes, re {mall and hoarie, hauing at the end of euery onc aifmall haire, whichis gray >: therootcis {mall and long, growing downewards into theground, witha reat the head thereof, and not lying or running ynder the vppet cruftthere- 1¢ other wilde Amemones doe. 3, Palfa- |