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Show ~ The Gardenof pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleafant Flowers. arn sm {290 8 otitisbas eabeid The -Vertues. Weknow no viethey haue in Phyficke; butare cherifhed in Gardens fo their beautifull flowers fake. CHar: LXIX. Caryophyliut bortenfis. Carnationsand Gilloflowers. T: auoide confufion, I muft dinide Gilloflowers from Pinkes , and intreateof them in {euerall Chapters. Ofthofethatare called Carnations or Gilloflow ets, as ofthe greater kinde,it: this Chapter : and of Pinkes > as well doublea fingle, in the next. But the numberofthem is fo great} that to giue feucrall defcript. ensto them all were endleffe, at the leaft needlefle: L-will therefore {et downc onely the defcriptions of three <for vnto thefethree may be referred all the other forts) for their fafhion and mannerofgrowing, and give you'the feucrall names (astheyar e viu. ally called with vs) ofthe reft,, with their variety and.mixture of coloursinthe flow: ers, wherein confiftcth a chiefe difference. Iaccount thofe that'are called Carnations to bethegreateft, both for leafeand flower, and Gilloflowers forthe moft parttobee Icffer in both ;and therefore will gine you each defctiption apart, and the. Orenge ar, or yellowGilloflower likewifeby it felfe,as differing very notably fromil thereft. 1.Caryophybus maxivume Harwicenfis fiue Anglicus. The great Harwichor old Englith Carnation, Ttake this goodly great old Englith Carnation, asa prefidentfor all the reft of the greateft forts , which forhis beauty and ftatelin the defcriptionof effe is worthy of & primeplace, hauing beene alwayes very hardly Preferued in the Winter; and there » forenot fo frequentas the other Carnationsor Gilloflowers, Icrifeth vp with agtet thicke round ftalke, diuided into feuerall branches;fomewhat thicklyf er with joyats and at cuery ioynt two long greene rather then whitifh leaues , fomewh at broadet then Gilloflowerleaues, turning or Winding twoor three timesround Cin fomeother forts of Carnations they are plaine, but bending thé points downewards, and in {ome alfo ofadarke reddifh gtcene colour, and in others not{o darke; but father ofa whitih gteene colour:) the flowers ftandatthe toppes ofthe ftalkes in long; great, and roun greene huskes, which are diuided inte flue points ,-out of which rifemany long an broad pointed leaues, deeply laggedat the ends,f et inorder round and comely, mé king a gallant great double flower » ofa deepe Carnation colour almoft red , {potte withmanybluth {pots andftrakes, fome gteaterand fomeleffer. of an excellent fof {weete {ent, neither teo quickeas many.others of rhefe kinds are. nor yet too dull,and, with two whitifh crooked threads like hornesinthe midd le: this kinde neuerbearctl many flowers , but as itis flow in growing , fo in bearing, notto whichfheweth a kinde of ftatelineife » fit to preferue the Opinion be often handled, of magnificence’ the roote is branchedinto divers grear, long, woaddyrootes, with many{mall fibres annexed yatothem. 2. Caryophylius hortenfisflerepleno rubro. Thered or Cloue Gilloflower. The red. Cloue Gilloflower, which I rakeasa prefi dent for the fecond fort, which are Gilloflowers, growlike vnto the Carnations , but not fo thickefer with ioynts a0 leaues : theftalkesare more, the leaues are narrower and whiter forthe moft part, 40 in fome doeas wella littleturne: the flowersare final ler yet very thick eand double ia moft , andthe greene huskes wherein theyftanda re Foalion likewife then thefor mer : the ends ofthe leauesin this flower,as thereft, are dented or iagged, ye infome more thenin others ; fomealfo hauinginall two fmall white threads crooked atthe ends like horne s,in the middle of the flower, when as diuers otherhave none. be kindes; Canoeoes Petes white Carnation. 4 (aryes maajorrubre& 4 [bo be v. vari us, The (aryephy lise maximus rubra varius The eatold Carnation or gray Hulo. 2 Caryepiyhus oP ja § Wiad (ait Friatue, The faire madeof Kent. TheGrineloor paylae albe rebess. The Camberfine orthe > Pools flower. 44 Caryept (ar) Pruase. % (arse Grimole dittus The bla: hSauadge. 4 Caryoplrylins X erampelsnuss, The Gredeline neCarnation. 7. (arjephyllee 2yEs alone maior, The greatwhuteGillollewer. 6 elegans Hersine Bradfoany. Maher Gradthawes dasaty Lady. |