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Show Tbe Garden of plea/ant Flowers. The garden of pleafant Féowers. The Turkey blufh Core flowery whichoyou pleafe.’ Bhelatt was fentby of the ware of Jarea Betica; (but), had ratherto'referredit to the Cyauar, Corne flowers, becaufe the flowersare like vnto the Corne flowers, and notynto the Ja¢eas or Knapweedes, The Vertues. Cuar. LXXVI. Cnicusfine Certhamusfativus. Baftard or Spanith Saffron. Te aretwoor three forts of Cvicwor baftard Saffrons whichI paffe over, as Thele hadino vfe in Phyficke in Galen and Diofcorides time, inthat.(s itis chought) they haue made-no mention of them : We inthefe dayésdoe chiefly vfethefirftkindes:(asalfothe greater fort) asia cooling Cordial, and commended by fometobea remedy, not onely againgt theplagueand peftilentiall difeafes, but againft the poifon iof Scorpionsand Spiders. not fit for this Garden, and onely fet downe this kinde, whofe flowers are of a fairer and more lively colourin our Country, then any hath comeouer from Spaine, where they manureit for the profitthey make thereof, {eruing for the dying ofSilke efpeciatly,and tranfporting great quantities to divers Countries. It hath large broad leaues, without any prickes at all vpon them in our Country, growing vponthe ftalke, whichis trong, hard, and round, with fhorter'leaues thereon vpto the toppe, where theyarea litele fharpe pointed, and prickly aboutthe edges fometimes , which ftalkerifeth three or foure foote high, and branchethit felfetoward thetoppe,bearing atthe end ofeuery branch onegreat open fcaly head, out of whichthrufteth out many Lic, Cap, LX X Ve goldyellow threads, of amoft orient fhining colour , which being gathered ina dry time,and kept dry,will abide in the famedelicate colourthatit bare whenit wasfrefh, Teces. Marina Baticé. Spanifh SeaKnapweede. fora very long timeafter : when the flowersare paft, the feede when it is come to ma- Te ate a great many fortsof Knapweedes, yet rione of them allfit forthis our Garden, butthis only ftrafiger, whichI haue beene bold to thruft inhety, forthat it hathfuchlike gaping of open flowers, as the former Corne flowers haue, but notably differing; andtherefore deferucth a peculiar Chapter; as paltaking both with Cya#us and Zacea. It hath manylong and narrow Icaues vneuenly dentedot waued on both edges (and not notched;gathed or indented,as many ethcr herbesatt) being thicke, flefhieand brittle,alittle hairy, and of an ouerwornedarke greene Jour, among which rife lowe weake ftalkes, with fuchlike leaues.as grow atthe bor tome, but fmaller, bearing but hereandtherea flower; of abright reddith purpleco Jour; like informe vnto the Corneflowers;: but much larger, with many thredsot thrumesin the middle of the fame coleur,ftanding vp higher thenanyofthe formeri this flowerrifeth outof a large {caly head, all fet over with {mall fharpe (butharme leffe) white prickles : thefeedesatéblackifh, like vntothe Knapweedes, and larget then any of the former Corne flowers : the roote is great dnd thicke, growing detpt into the ground, flefhie and full of a flimie or clammy ivice, and eafie to bee broken, blackifh onthe outfide, and whitith within, enduring many yeares, like asthe othtt Knapweedes, or Matfelons'doc,growing in time to be very thickeand great. turity, whichis very {eldome withvs, is white and hard, fomewhat long, round, and alittle cortiered : the rooteis long, great, and wooddy , and perifheth quickly with the firft frofts. ThePlace. Ir growthin Spaine, and other hot Countries, but not wilde, for that it isaccounted of the old Writers, Theophraftus and Diofcorides,to beamanured plant. The Time. It fowreth with vs not vntill Auguft, or September fometimes, fo that to purge, it hardly giuethripe feede (as I faid) neither.is it,of that force which groweth in thefe colder Countries, as that which commeth from Spaine, and otherplaces. The Names. name Cnicus is deriued from the Greekes y and Carthamus fromthe The Arabians, yet ftill /ativas is added vntoit, to thew itis no wilde, butama called The Place. It groweth naturally by the Sea fide in Spaine, from whence! receiued the feedes of Guillaume Boel, and did abide well inmy gardena long time, butis nowperifhed. it is nured plant,and fowneeuery where that wee know. Of fome it, We call Crocus hortenfis, and Sarafenicws, from the Italians which fo call Saffron. ia Catalon and Saffron, Spanith Saffron, Baftard Englifh it in The Vertues. The Time. Itflowreth in the beginning of Iuly, or thereabouts and continueth a long in flower : but the head abideth agreat while, and isof fome beat after the floweris paft;yet:feldome giueth goodfeed with vs. The Names. It hath noother hamethenis fet downin thetisle,being altogether4 uelift, and hot now to befeene with any fauing myfelfe. The:Vertues. We hane notyet kuown any vie hereof in Phyfick. eth beyond Sea, The flowets are vied in colouring meates, where irgrow ede are onely vied in and alfo for the dying of Silkes : the kernels of the.fe e humours. Phyficke with ys,and ferueth wellte purge melancholick Cuar.LXXVII.- Ne Cardumw, Thiftles. mee curious to plant Thiftles in my Gar \ YOu may fomewhat maruaile, to fee an s, fure plea hen uest er plag den, when as youmightwell fay , theyare rath them vp, if no ; Imade therein rifh moretrouble to weede them out, thent oche J will in, ng [bri which well them d viewe diftinGion of choife ; but when you haue then Ee 3 |