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Show Tbe Garden of plea/ant Flowers. ‘Lhe Gardenof plealant Flowers, yut eueryof is leffer then the leaues of the next following Clime towards the vpper par Sihraipeiete tendrelsto winde about any thingatall: of the branches,withthe faid leaucs,come forth long ftalks,wheron ftand many white flowers cluftering together, opening the brims intofixe orcight {mall leaves, {prea dinglikea ftarre, very fweet of fmellsor tather of a ftrong heady fent, whichafter turneinto flattifh and blackifhfeede, plumed at the head, which plumeor feather fly. eth away with the winde after it hath ftood longyand leaueth the feede naked orate: the roote is white andthicke, flefhiearid tender, or eafieto be broken, asty felt well teflife, in that defiring to take a fucker from the roote, I could’not‘hand it fotenderly,. but that ic broke notwithftanding allmy care, Mafter Gerard inhi Herball maketh mention of oneofthis kinde with double white flowers, which led faith he recoueted fromthe feede was fent him from Argentine, thatis Strasboroiigh; whereof hee fetteth forth the figure with double flowers’ : but I'ncuer {aww any {uch withhim, neither did euer heare of any of this kinde with double flowers, Clufis indeed faith, that hee recciued froma friend fome {eede vndai'the name of Clematis fore alvopleno : but he doubteth-whether there becanyfiich : the plants that fprang with him from that feede,were like vnto the vpright kinde called F/asmmila Matthiol or /owis creita, as he therefaith : but affuredly 1 haue beenc informed from fome ofmy efpeciall friends beyond Sea,that they haue adouble white Clematis, anid have promi. fedto fend it,but whether it willbe of thecliming or vprightfort, I cannottell yatill Ifec it : but furely [doe much doubt whetherthe doublewill giue any good feede. 5. Clematis alterfineperegrinaflore rubra. Red Ladies Bower. This Climer hath manylimber and weake climing brancheslike the former, cou red with 4 brownethin outer barke, and greenevnderneath : the leaues ftandattht ioynts, confifting but of three leaues or parts, whereoffome are notched on onelide, and fome on both,without any clafping tendrels alfo, but winding with his branches ‘about any thing ftandeth next vnto it: the flowersin like manner comefromthe fame ioynts with the leaues, but not fo many togetheras the former vpon longfootftalks, confifting of foure leaues a peece,ftanding like a croffe, of adarke red colour ; tht feed is flat and round, and peinted at the end, three or foure or more ftanding clofeto- gether vpon oneftalk, without any doune vponthem at all, asin the former thero0ls area bundell of brownifh yellow ftrong ftrings, running down deep into the ground, from a bigge head aboue. ding to ablufh colour, whereof Lhaue not heard from any other place. 8. Flammnla louii erecta. Vpright Virgins Bower. This kinde of clematé hath diuers more vpright ftalkes then any of the fourelaft decribed, fometimes foureor fiue foote high, or mote ; yet leaning or bending alirtle, fothat it had fomencede of futtaining, coucred with a brownith barke; from whence come forth onail fides diuers winged leaues,confifting of fiue or feuen leauesy fet on both fides ofa middleribbe, wheréof one is at the end : the tops of the ftalkes; + arediuided into many branches, bearing many white fweet {melling flowerson them, likein fafhion vnto the white Virgins Bower ; after which come fuchlike feather tope feede, which temaineand fhew them {elues, being flat like the other, when the plumes areblowne abroad theroote {preadeth inthe ground from:a thicke head, into many fong firings, and faftenethit felfe ftronglyin the earth. but all the ftalkes dye downe tuery yeare, and {pring afrefh in the beginning of the next, 9. Clematis cerulea Panyonica. The Hungarian Climer. } The ftalksofthis plant ftand vpright,& are foure {quare,bearing at euery ioynt two leaues, which atthe firft are Clofed together, and after tlicy are open,are fomewhat like ynto the-leauies of A/elepiae, or Swalhow-wort: from the tops of the talks, and fometimes alfofromthe fidesby the leaues commeth forth one flower, bending the head downward,confitting offoure leauesfomewhat long & narrow, {tanding likeacrofle, sadturning vp their eidsa littleagaine, of afaire blew orski¢ colour, witha thicke Pale yellow.fhott thrumme,. made likea head inthe middle sufter the. floweris patt, the head tufneth intd fuchialikeround featherteps ball y,asisto-be feene in the Trae uellers ioy x DrViorna(asit is called). that growesh plentifully;in Kent and in other laces by the wayfides, andin the hedges,- wherein is included fuch hike flat eede. Thefe. ftatkes(likeasthd laft) dyeidowne toithe,ground-cuery yeare , and, rife againe intheSpring following,{hooting ont new branches,andtherby encreafethin the root, 15106 Maracac fine ClematisVirginians, ’The Virginia Climer. Iknow not ; let me I pray infertit inthe end of their Chapter, with this defcription. It This Ladies Bowerdiffereth in nothing from the laft defcribed, but onely inthe colour of the flower, whichis of a fad blewith purple colour ;. fo that the onesnot poffibleto be known from theother, vntill they be in flower. rifeth out of the ground (verylate imthéyeare, about the beginning of May, ifit bea plant hathrifen fromthe {eed of our owne fowing,and if it be an old one,fuch as hath ddcabroughf td vs from Virginia;for ily the end theredf) with a round ftalke, not aboued yard andahalfehigh(in any that I hauefeene) bur in hotter Countries, as fome Authors shawelfer ir downey much higher, bearing one lcafe ateueryioynt, which from the grainid tothe middle thereof hath no clafpers, but from thence vpwards 7+ Clemsatis peregrineflore parpureo pleno, Double flowred purple Ladies Bower. This double Clematis hath branches and leaues fo neere refembling thefingle kinds that there can be knownenodifference,vnleffeit be, that this groweth more goaled great, and yeeldeth both more ftore of branches from the ground,and morefpreaditg aboue : the chiefeft marke to diftinguith it is the flower, whichinthisis very thicst and double, confifting of anumberoffinaller leaues,fet clofe togetherin orderin™ middle, the foure outermoft leaues that encompaffe them, being much broaderat largerthen any ofthe inward, burall of a dull or fad blewifh purple colour, the pam orends of the leaues feeminga little darker then the middle of them : this beatt™ no feedethat euier I could fee, heare of, or learne by any of credit, that haue ae ita great while; and thereforethe tales offalfe deceitful gardiners, andothers, © diliuerfach for truth, entertained, vnto Noremberg)in Germany, Ireadeof a Clematis of this former kinde , whofe ft. griia flore cars gure is thereto allo annexed, with double flowers of an incarnate, or pale purple ten. #¢¢6#7 4.¢0 4 :Becauiferhis braueand:too muchdefired- plate doth in fome things refemble the formerClimers,fo thacynto what orher family orkiadred Lmight better conioyneit 6. Clematisperegrinaflorepurpuresfimplici. Single purple Ladies Bower. to deceiue perfonsignorant thereof, muft not bec credulow) Th pi eee 3 93 ee es EL meeneehele ne Inthe great booke of the Garden of the Bithop of Eyftort, (whichplace. is NEETC cpematis peree hath at the fameioynt with chéleafeborba finall twining clafper, like vntoa Vine,and afloweralfo: euery leafe'is broad at the ftalke thereof, and diuided about the middle ‘onboth fides , making it fomewhat refemble a Figge leafe, ending in three points, whereof the middlemott is longeft : the bud of theflower, before it doe open, is very like vnto the heador feede veffell of the ordinary fingle Wigellz, having atthe head or top fiue {mall crooked hornes,which*when this, bud opencth,are the ends or points of ue leaues, that are white ontheinfide, and lay themfelues flat, like vnto an Anemone, and area Jittlehollowlikea fcoone atthe ‘end, wich fiue other finaller leaues, and Whiterthen theylying b: tiveenethemn . which were hidin the bud before it opened, fo that this flower being full blowne open, confifteth often white leaues ; laide in or- der round onebyanother : from the bottomeof thefe leaues on the infide,rife diuers *wined threads, which {pread and lay themfelucs all ouer thefe white leaves, reaching Deyond the points ofthema little, andare of a rcddith peach colour: towards we |