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Show The Garden ofpleafant Flowers. The Gardenof pleasant Flomers. The Time. The fir and fecénd. flowerearlier thenthelaft, for th#rit fowreth ng ‘yntill Septemberor O&tober, (vnlefle it bengtaptto beare the firkt vente i ped ot fet. among a’ deale offlockie matter,asis moftviudll, in all plantsthatbeare {calyhheads :. therootes arelongand ard, | perifhing euery-yeare when «it hath given feed: ] 21 2. Cyanusflaridus Tarcicwss7Ehe Sultansflower. as [before(aid) fotharmany timestif none be more forward) it peritheth Asakinde of thefe Corneflowers, I muift neédes adioyne anotherftranger,of much without beating ripe feede, whereby weate oftentimes ro {eeke newfeede beautic,andbutlately obtained from Conftantinople,where,becaufe(as it is {aid) the great Turke,as we calbhim,faw itabroade,likedit,and worcit himfelfe; all his vaffals from ourfriends in other parts. hauchad it ingrearrégard, atidihath been obtained from them, by fomerhat hauefent The Names. They haue all One,gencralkname of Scabions, diftinguithed cyther ; their fowet,or place of growing;asin theirtitles: yerthelaft is called gf divers Scabio/a'exotica, bécaufe they thinkethe name Zwdica, is not truely impofedyponit. fmaller and blacker, and not enclofedin fo much dounie fubftance, as the former(yet The Vertues. Whether thefekirides haue any of thevertues of che other wildekindy, eee fone haue madeany experience, and therefore I can {ay tio moregf them. i Guar, LXXINE Cyan. Corne flower,or blew Bottles, WVomecse Cyanus ave comprehended, not onely thofe plants which fromthe excellent blew colour ef their fowers(furnifhing or rather peftering the Corneficldes) haue peculiarly obtained that name, and which doth much vary alfo, inthe colour ofthe flowers,as fhallbe fhewed;but fomeotherplantsalfofar their neere refemblance, but with feuerall diftinétions.’ The Cyasus maior, Plarmits Ausirsaca, Ptaymica Imperati,and many others which may be adioyned nto chem, do more fitly belong to the Garden of Simples, whereunto Ileaue them, and will hete only entreate of thofe that may moft pleafe-the delight of our Gentle Florifts,inthat I laboureae lice and ftriuc, to furnith this ourgard garden, withthe chiefeft i choyfe of natut6 i 1. Cyanas vuloaris dincrforumcolorum. Corne flower of divers colours. Allthefe forts of Corne fowers are'for the moft part alike, both in leatesand flowers one vgto another forthe forme: the difference betweene them coniifteth i the varying colour ofthe flowers: Forthe leaues are long, and of a whitish greet colour, deeply cutin onthe edges in fome places, fomewhat like vntothe leaues oF 4 Scabious: the ftalkes are two foote high or betcer,befer withfuch like leaties but fms ler,and little or nothingflit on the edges: rhe toppes are branched, bearing many fad eye {caly heads, out of whichrife flowers, confifting of fiue or fixé, OF more lot enerae - bottome, and opening wider andgreatetat tg ei } itintothefe partsy The leaues whereof aré greener, and not only gafhed, but finely fniptonthe edges 2 the ftalkes.arethree footehigh, gardifhed withthe like leaues as are below,and braniched.astheformer, bearing large fcaly heads, and fuchtlike flowers but larger, hauing cight or nine of thofe hollow gaping leauesin euery flower, ftanding about the middle threds.(if it be planted in good and fertile ground and be well watered, forit foone ftaructh andperifheth with drought) the circling leaues are of a fine delayed purple or blufh colout, verybeautifull tobehold ; the feede of this is theedges, and ftanding round about many final! threds i" middle : the colours of thefe fowers are diuers.and very variable,” for fomeat wholly blew,orwhite, orblufh, or of a fad,or light purple of bf a light or dead 10% or of an ouerworne purple colour, or elfe mixed of théfe doleue asfome the edg@ white, and the reft blew orpurple, orthe edgesblew.or purple, andtheref oftht flower white, or ftriped, fpotted,orhalfed, the one pattof one defour and the othe ofanother, thethreds likewife in the middle varyingin many of them , for foi will haue the middle thrume of a deeper purple then the outer leaves “and fometi white or blufhleaues, themiddlethrume being reddifh, deeper or paler : After t flowersare palt, there come fmall, hard,whiteand fhining feede itt thofe heads, ¥” pec in our Countrey the fedeisnot fo blacke, as it came vntoVs, but more gray) the roote perifheth likewife cuery yeere. 3. Cyanus paticus' fapinas: The Spanifh Corne-flower. ThisSpanith kindehath many fquare low bending oncreeping ftalkesynot ftanding fo vpright as the former, but braaching out more dinerfly.; fo that oneplant willtake vpagreatdeale of "ground ::theleaucs art broader then any of thereft,fofter-alfojof apalé or: whitith greenecolour, and not much gaflied on theedges: the flowers ftand inbigger heads, with foure orfine leaucs. ynder enery head, andareof a lighrpale purple or blufh colour ;afterwhich come feede, but norfo plentifully,yet wrapped in agteat'dealeof flockic mattel more then any : the roote growethdewne deepe: into thegtound, but perifheth eucry yeare asthey doc. The Place: ; The firft or former kindes, grow.many times inthe Cornefields of our own. Countrey, as wellas of otherssefpecially that fort with a blew flower: but the other forts or colours are not fo frequent, but are nourifhed in gardens,where they will vary wonderfully. The fecond asis before fet downe,-groweth in Turkie : and the laftin Spaine, found out and firft fent to vs by that induftrious fearcher offimples, Guillaume Boel before remembred; The Time. The firft doe fowerin the end of Iune,and in Iuly,and fomtimes fooner. The other two later,and not vatill Auguft moft commonly, andthe feede is foone ripe after. TheNames: The firftis generally called Gyannsyand fome following the Ditch name, call it Flos framenti, Theolde Writersgaue it the name of Bapti fecnba, whichis almoft worne out. ‘Wedoe.call chem in Englith,Blew Bottles,and in fome places, Corne flowers, after the Ditch names. Fhefecond hath beene fent by thename of ~4m4reboi, which whetherit be a Turkie or Arabian name,1 know not, Ihanecalled it fromthe place,from whence we had it, Turcicus, and forhis beauty, Floridas. The Turkes therafelues as I vnder- ftand, doecall it! The Sultarisflowerj:and I have donefalivewife, thatit maybee diftinguifhed from all the other kindes, or elfe you may et Ec 2 re |