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Show — _ 320 Tbe Garden of pleafant Flowers. The Vardenof pleafant Fiowers, Will bee full peckled orfprinkled with white or filuer {pots, circlewife aboutthe mid. dle of the fowers, and fome wilk haue many fpecks or {pots vponthem difperfed; all thefe Aowers are not blowne at onc time,-but fome are flowring, when othersare decaying, fo that abiding longin-their pride, they become of the morerefpect: The feedeis blacke,as all the reft, and not to be diftinguifhed one from another: the roots are fomelong,and fome{mall and threddy,running vader thevppercruft ofthe earth, 4. Armerins latifolinsflore rubrofaturoholofericee. _ Sweet Williams of adeepered or murrey colour. The leaues of thiskindefeemetobealittlélatger, and the ioints a titcle redder then the former, but in theflowerconfifteth the chiefeft difference, which isof a deepered,of mutteypurple colour,like varo veluet ofthat colour, without any {por but fmooth, and as it were foft in handling, ‘hauing an eye orcircle in the middle, x the bottomie of theleaues. ' §, Armerins latifolins fimplexlore albo, Single white fweete Williams. Thewhite kindediffereth not in forme, but in colout from the former, the leiues drenot browneatally but of 2 freth greenecolour, andthe flowers are wholly white, br clfetheyare all one. The Place. Thefe forthe moft part grow wilde‘in Italie, and ether places : wehaut them in our Gardens, where they arecherifhed for their beautifull varietie, The Time. Theyall generally doe Aower before the Gilloflowers or Pinkes,orwith, the firft of them: their feedeis ripein June andIuly, and doeall wellabide theextremitie of our coldeft winters. The Names, Theyall generally are called Armerins, or Armeria, as {ome doe Witt, and diftinguifhed as whey arcin their titles: Yerfome hauecalledthem /* tonica agrefiis, and others Herba Twnica,Scarletes, ce Caryophylas jfilucfird: Wee docin Englith in moft places, call the firftor narrowerleafed kindss, Sweet Iohns, andall the reft Sweete Williams; yet in fome places they the broaderleafed kindes that arenot {potted, Tolmeiners, and Londot tufts: but the {peckled kinde is termed by our Englith Gentlewomes, fot the moft part, Londenpride. The Vertues, Wehauenot knowneanyof thefevfed in Phyficke. Cuar. LXXII. Bek. Daifie. Here be diuers forts of Daifies, both great and {mall, both fingle and doubl both wilde growing abroadeinthefieldes,and elfewhere,and manured grow ing only in Gardens:ofall which I intend not to entreate, but of thofe hata of moft beautic and refped, and leanethe reftto their properplace. is 4. BE |