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Tbe Garden of pleajant Flowers. en a Thereis likewife another fort of thefe male Mandrakes, whichI firft {aw at vnto Violets, or fome other {weet flowers, inthe formerplace of Genefis, Canter. and the fruit of Ma/a, or Adams Apples in this place of the Canticles, Hamilcar the Carthaginian.Captaine is {aid to haue infected the wine of the Lybians(his enemies againtt whore fought) With the apples of Man- the gardenof the bury, with my very louing and kindefriende ohn Tradefcante, in leaues whereof wereof 4 the ; time that at was he r gardine whofe , Wotton Lord more gtayiflzgreenc colour, and fomewhat folded together; whéh asthe formerkind ed, and oxdinaryin that grew hard byit, was of the fame formethatis before defcrib I knownot,nordid e other, fromth ng differi were apples the r allothcrs : but whethe ‘drake,whereby they beihp'made exteeding drowfie, he obtained a famous “victory over them. 6°". borneany. they remember that cuer ithad et 579 The Garden of pleasant Flowerss ldnceaniedasect ens ise . ~CHAPKCVL The female Mandrake doth likewife put vp many leaues together, fromthe head of narrower the roote, but they arenothing fo large, andaté of a darker greene colour, many,rifing alfo and fhining, more crumpled, and of a ftrongerfent: the flowers are vpin the middle of theteates, vponi fichder Ralkes, asin the mialekind,but ofa blew. ith purple colour, which turne into {mall round fruite or apples, and notlonglikes greeneatthe peare (as Cinfius reporteth that faw them naturally growing inSpaine) orif firft, andof a pale yellewifh colour, whenthey are fullripe; of amorepleating, ch containedfi is wherein male, ithe pplesof you will, ofa leffe heady fent thenthica withoutand blacke former, the like are rootes the blacker: and {maller feede,but iike mor, white within, and divided in rhe fame manneras themale is, fometimes with and fometimes with fewerparts or branches. The Place. They growin many places of Italie,“ as Matthiolus reporteth, but efpe. cially on Mount Garganus in Apulia. Clafius faith hee foundthe femalein many wetgrounds of Spaine,as alfo in the borders ofthofe medowesthat lye neere vntoriuers and water courfes.” The maleis chetifhed in many Gardens,forpleafureas wellas for vfe: but the femaleasis faid,is bothyery rare, and farre moretender. The Time. The Male fowreth in March, and thefruit is ripe in Iuly. The Female, itbe well preferued,flowreth not vntill Auguft,or September; fo that with: out extraordinary care,we neuer{ee the fruitethereof in eur gardens. Pomum Amir. Loue Apples. Lrhough the beautie ofthis plant confiffeth not in the flower,but fruit,yet gine are me leaue to infert it here, left otherwife it haueno place :_ whereof there ifh diftingu and , Chapter ofe in end compreh wee tvo efpeciall forts, which nourthemby mains and minus, ercater and {maller: yet ofthe greater kinde, we haue , inno{ed vpin our Gardeas twoforts, that differ only in the colour of the fruite, and thing elfe. Ponium Amorts mais fracix rubro. Great Apple of Loue the ordinary red fort. tly cherifhed This greater kinde of Loue Apples, which bath beene moft frequen ground, vponthe ng {preadi or g s,leanin branche ling with vs, hath diners long andtray leaues, thatis, not abletofultaine themf{elues, whereon doe.grow many long winged ng greater, and many leaues fet on both fides, and all alonga middle ribbe, fomebei rne grecne ouer-wo h agrayif of edges, the about others leffe, iaggedalfo and dented dthe branches leauesan the among g,from handlin in hairy roughor t fomewha colour, l fhort footttalks, comeforth long ftalkes, with diuers flowers fetthereon,vpon feueral withamiddle leaues, yellow long fimall confitting offixe, and fometimes of eight the fruite, whichare pricke or vmbone, which after the flowersare fallen, rifeth to be diuers places, outin bunched y vneuenl Pippin, meane of the bigneffe of a {mall or olour, or fomewhat and {carce anyfull round without bunches, ofa faire pale reddifhc the feede deeper,like vnto an Orenge,full ofa flimie iniceand watery pulpe, wherein {mall many with th efhoote theroot : rough at fomewh lyeth, which is white,flat and firft feeling ofour winftrings and bigger branches vnderground,but perifheth at the is become much finalter weather. The fruite hereof by often fowing it in our Land, or three yeares affo for two lerthenI hauehere defcribed it : but wasat the firft, and The Names. Séandragoras masis called albus,as the Famine is called niger, whichtitles of blacke and white, arereferred vnto the colour ofthe leaues: the It male iscalled alfo Tibridacias,from the likeneffe of Lettice,whereuntothey tiait the male was called Morion,and both of them Aotinelem,and Circen. We call them in Englifh, The male, and the female Mandrake. The Vertues. the oyntment?t The leaues haueacooling and drying qualitie, fit for puleox, whercinitis put. Butthe Apples hauea foporiferous propeitit, P Leuinus Lemnius maketh mentionin his Herball to the Bible, of 2 expt rimentof his owne, Befides, as Diofcorides firft,and thenSerapio,Aue com Paulus Agineta, and others alfo do declare,they conduce sah ro thekao Rachel e,that probabl is Andit matrix, ling andcleanfing ofan hot hot and dry body, w4s rhemos ing that they might beprofitable for her down® Gea earneft with Leahfor her Sonne Rubens Apples, asit is fer bas omen Méndragorafemiba. The female Mandrake. fay in forme it doth carry fomefimilitude.Diofcorides faith,thatin his s Ca#t.7.2 30-verfe 14. Theftrong fent of thefe applesis rermembredalfo, w word, 2°87 although fome would diuert the fignification of the Hebre ter, as biggeas I hauerelatedit. Pomum Amoris mains fruéie Luteo, Yellow Amorous Apples. differing in nothing but OF the fame kindeis this otherfort of Amorous Apples, bunches or lobes the colour of thefruite, whichis of apaleycllow colour, hauing inthe fame manner, and feede alfo like the former. Pomum Amoris minus, fine Mala Ethiopica parsed. Small Loue Apples. weake trayling The {mall Apples of Loue in the very like manner, haue longfmaller in euery but hath, kinde greater the as leaues e fuchlik with befet s, branche ftalke, and yellow asthe forpatt : the flowersalfe ftand many together ona long th red berries, not much mer, bur muchfmaller : thefruite are (mall, round, yellowi at feede, like the other, but bigger then great grapes, wherein are contained whitefl and therefore muft bee new yeare, cucry manner like maller : the roote perifheth in garden ; yet fome fightin the fowen euery {pring, if you will hauethe pleafure of their in my garden. yeares I haue known them rife of their owne fowing Ce ¢ |