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Show ae B+ Tbe Garden of pleafant Flowers. a et ps The Garden ofpleasant Flowers. oe footc high,the lowerparts whereofare furnifhed with many wingedleaves, fomewha like vnto Liquetice, ora fmallyoung Afhe tree, confifting of feuen, nine, oneloug jeauesfet together, whichare fomewhat largeand long, hard and roughin handling ofadarkifh greenecolout,and otan vnpléafant firong refinous fent;) the ypper pats of theftalkes are furnifhtdwithimany flowers, growing {pike fathion, at certaine i. ftances one aboue another; confifting of fiuelong leaves a pecce, whereof foureghat ftand onthe two fides, ace fomewhat bending ypwards, andthe fift hanging dowwane, but turning vp the end of the leafea little againe, of a faint or pale red colour, Reriped through eueryleafe with a deeper redicolour, and hauingin the middle a taffell of fue or fix long purplifhthreds, that bowe downe with thelowerleafe, and turne vpalfo The Vertues. It is held-to be. profitable againft the ftingings of ‘Serpents, againft contagious andpeftilentdifeafes, to bring downethe feminine cour{es, for the paines ofitie bellyand the ftone, and in Epilepticall difeafes) and dther cold paines’of the braines : the roote isthe moft effeCuallifor all thei, fi ol yet the feede is fometitnes vied. theetids againe, wittia little fevefeor thtume at the'endsofeuery onesafter the flowers CHK es fue ftanding together, fomewhat like the feede veflelsiofthe Wolfes-bancs, or Co. lombines, but greater; thicket and harder, wherein is contained round fhining blacke Legumina, Pulle. ate paft,arife hard;ttiffe,rougt;clamniy huskes, hotned orpointed atthe end, foureor feede, greater then'any Colombirie feedeby much, and fmallerthenPeony fede: the roote is white,laree, and {preading marly wayes vnder ground, ifis ftandlong:the whole plant,as well roors'as feauesand flowersyare ofiadtrong {ent;notfo pleafing for the fmell,as the fowersare beautifull to the fight. 2.Fraxinellaflorerubre, Baftard Dittaine witha red flower. This differeth not from the former eyther inroote, leafe or flower. for the forme but thatthe ftalkes and leaves are of .adarker greene colour,and that the flowers areot a deeper red colour,(and growing ina little longer {pike) whereinthedifferencechic ly confifteth; which is fuflicientto diftinguifhthem. 3. Fraxinellafloré alba. Baftard Dittanie with white fowet. Thewhite fowred Fraxinells hath his leaues and ftalkes of a frether greene colout then any of the former ; ‘andthe: Rowers are of a pure white colour, in forme dife, rig nothing at all from the other. of varietiestherein; more knewne and found outimthefe dayes, tlien at any time before, butthacmuft bee a part of a greater worke, which svill abide adongertime beforeit fee the light. I fhall only feleét thofethatare fit for this garden, and fet them downe for your.confideration. All forts of Pulfemay be reduced vndertwogencrall heads, thar is, of Beanesand Peafe, ofcach whereof thereisboth tameand wilde: Beane, Of Beants, befides the tameor vfitall garden Beane,and the French orKidney (whereof I meane-toventreate in my Kitchen garden, as pertinent thereto) there isthe Lupine orfat Beane, whereof I meanetoentreate here;'and the-blacke Beane of andothers which muft bee referued for the Phyficke Garden. And of the kindes Peale fome arefit forthis Garden,(whereunto will adioyne two or three other plants asneereft of affinitic, the Mowers of fome,, and the fruit of others being delightfull the Phyto many,and therefore fit for this garden) fome for the Kitchen, the reft for ficke garden, Aindfirft of Liypines.orflat Beanes,acceptedias delightful tomany,and thereforefit for this garden. \ > 1. Lupinus fativas albus. Thewhite garden Lupine. d fomewhat woolThe garden Lupinerifeth vp with a great round ftalke,hollow,an 4. Fraxinellafore albeceraleo, Baftard Dittanie with an ath colouréd fower. The colour of the flowerof this Fraxinells onely purteth the difference betweent this, andthe laft recited with a white flower: forthisbearetha very pale, or whitifh blew flower, tending to an afh colour: ; ThePlace. All thefe-kindes iare found: growin g naturally, inmany,placesbotho i f Germany, and Italie : and that with the white gee Franckford, which being fent me; perithed by the way by long andcuill-carriage. leaues, ly, with diucrs branches, whereon grow vpoa long footeftalkes many breade ut,asit roundabo anding equallyft leaves, {maller divided into feuen or nine parts, or vnderWere inacircle, of a whitifh greene colour on the vpperfide, and more woolly ftalke, greater the of both ioynts, feuerall at together many ftand Aowers the : neath in others and the branches, like vato beanes, and of a white colour.in fome places,and of avery bleake blew tending to white : after the howersare paft, there comein their and flat feede, places, long,broade,andflat rough cods, wherein are contained round tafte : bitterin very and skin, white atough ith yellowith on theinfide, and coueredw therootes are not very great, but full of {mall fibres, wherebyit. faftenethit felfe ftrongly inthe ground, yet perifheth euery yeare,as all thereft of thefekindes doe. 2. Lupinus cerulews maximus. The greater blew Lupine. thedaft before recited,as alfo The Sterame orftalke of this Lupine is greater then amoft perfec blewcolour, of s are e flower , andth dwoolly foftan more the leaues fhcodsare verygreat and greeni rough long the e: with fome white {pots in the middl The Time, They flowerin Tuneand fnlyandthe feede is ripein Auguft. fideas ch feede, not fo white on theout large, wherein are contained hard, fla tand round the former,but fomewhat yellowcr,greatera fo,and morerough or hardin handling. The Names. The name Fraxinella is moft generally impofed on thofe plants, becault of the refemblanceof themynto young Afhesin theiwinged fealies. et fome doe call them Di@amus albus, or Didabiens albus, and Diptames atm = adifference from the Di@ammus Creticus, whichis afarce differingpia Some would haue it to be Traginm ofDiofcorides, but belide otherthing? wherein this differeth from Traginw, this yeeldeth no milkie inice, I: Ifhould defcribe vnto youallthe kindes of Pulfe, I fhould vafold little world as ne {corides faith Traginm doth : We in Englith doe eyther call it praxiwels oxafter the other-corupted nameof Didamns, Baftard Dittanic. 3. Lupinus carubews minor. The leffer blew Lupine of leafed or flower from the This kinde of wilde Lupine differeth not inthe forme are greener, andhane fewer diui- former;. but onlythat itis much fmaller, the leaucs thelaft .; the cods likewile fionsinthem : the flower is of as deepea blew colouras the former, but more flatas fo not feede, round {mall g containin long, ze fmalland dilcoloured - |