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Show ‘fhe Gardenof pleajant Flowers. ———— it then abide your cenfare, ifthey.be not worthyoffome place, although L be gardenof ptea/ant Lowers. it be bura cop ner ofthe Garden, where fomething muft needes be to fillvp roome. Some ofthem are fmooth, and without prickes at all, fomeat the leads onely,and fome all ouer , byt yet not without fome efpeciall note ormarke worthy of re{pect s Ont of this difcourfe Tleaue the Artichoke, with all his kindes, and referue themfor our Kitchin Garden, becaufe (as all know) theyare forthe pleafure ofthe tafte, and notof the {mell or fight, 1. Acanthusfativas, Garden Beares breech. SeeeREE Ss es Tlie leaues of this kinde offmooth thiftle (as itis accounted) are almoft as largeas the ledues of the Attichoke,but not fo {harp pointed,very deeply cut in and gafhed on both edges,of a {ad green & fhining colour on the vpperfide, and ofa yellowithgreen ynderneath, with a great thicke rib in the middle, which {pread themfelues aboutthe root, taking vpa great deale of ground: After this plant hath ftoodlong in oneplace, and well defended from theiniury ofthe cold,it fendeth forth from among theleaues one or more great and {trongftalkes, three or foure foote high,without any branchat all,bearing from the middle tothe top many flowers one aboue another,{pike-fathion roundabouttheftalke, with fmaller but not diuided greene leaues at euery flower, which is white, and fafhioned fomewhatlike vntoa gaping mouth; after which come broad, flat, thicke, round, brownith yellow {eede(as I haue well obferued by them haue beene fent me out of Spaine, and which haue{prung vp, and doe growawith me; for in our Countrey I could neuer obferue any feedeto haue growne ripe) the rootes are compofed of many great and thickelong ftrings , which{preadfarrein and yndet the ground, fomewhat darkifh on the outfide, and whitifh within , full of a clammy moifture (whereby it fheweth to haue muchlife) aad doe endure our Winters, if they be nottoo much expofed tothe fharpe violence thereof, which then it will not en dure, as I haue often found byexperience. 2. Acanthusfiluefiris. Wilde or prickly Beares breech. This prickly Thiftle hath diuers long grceniflt leaues lying on theground, much narrower then the former, but cutin on bothfides,thicke fet with many white prickes and thornes on the edges: the ftalke rifeth not vp fo high, bearing divers fuch like thornicleaucs on them, with fuch alike head of flowerson it as the formerhath : but the feede hereof (as it hathcome to vs ftom Italy and otherplaces, for I neuer fawit beare {eed here in this Country) is blacke and round,of the bigneffe ofa {mall peales the roote abideth reafonable well, ifit be defended fomewhat from the extremity of olir Winters, or elfeitwill perith. 3. Eringinm Pannonicumfiue Montanum.Hungary Séa Holly: Flove albo. The lower leauesofthis Thiftle that lye on the ground,are fomewhatlarge, round, andbroad, hard in handling,and a little fnipt'aboutthe edges, euery one ftanding VP on along foote-ftalke : but thofethat growe vponthe ftalke, which is ftiffe, two three foote high, haue no foote-ftalke, but encom pafle it, rwobeing ferat euery ioy™s the toppe whereofis diuided into diuers branches, bearing fiiatl rorind!rough hea with {mallerand more’prickly leaues vader them, and more cut in'on the fides thea thofe belowe: out of thefe heads rife many blew flowers , the foote-ftalkes of tht flowers, together with the toppes ofthe branches, are likewife blew andtranfpare™s or fhining. Wehaueanotherofthis kinde, the wholetoppesofthe ftalkes, withthe headsaad branches,are more white then blew: the feede contained in thefe heads are hits flat, and as it were chaffie : the rooteis great and whitifh {preading farre into many branches,and fomewhatfweete in tafte, like the ordinary Sea Holly rootes. 4. Carduns mollis. The gentle Thiftle. The leaues of this foft and gentle Thiftle that are next vntethe ground» anc greet oa |