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Show cy LheGarden of pleasant Flowers. LheGarden of pleafant Piowrers. inthe ere colounaf rhe flower, buronly inthe leaues, which are edged, or Aids ped, > or pointed witha faite gold yellow colour, which fo continuethall the Yeare : $ oh a . : b d : ' throughout; yet fretherand fairer ia Summer then in = 3forthenit will looke of adeader colour; jet fo, that ic may be difcerned tobe of two colours, green& yellow, 3 Rofwsarinuen latifoliam. Broadc leafed Rofemary. This broad leafed, R ofemary groweth.in the fame mannerthat the former doth, but that wehauenotfeeneit in our Countrey fince wehaditto grow.fo great, orwith fiich woodyftemmes : the leaves ftand together vponthe long branchesafter the fame fy. fhion, but larger, broaderand greener thenthe other, and little or nothing whitit, vnderneath : the fowers likewife are ofthe fame forme and colour withthe ordinary, butlarger, and herein confifteth the difference. &: Rofwisrinumflore duplici, Double flowred Rofinary. The doubleflowred Rofmary thus far differeth from the former, thatit hath ftrone erftalkes, not fo eafietobreake;fairer, bigger and larger leaues, of a faire greene co. ra the flowers aredouble, as the Latkes heele or {purre : This] haue onely by relation, which I pray youaccept,vatill I may by fight better enforme you. Ourordinary Rofmarygroweth in Spaine, and Prouenceof France, andin others of thofe hot Countryes,neerethe Sea fide. It will not abide (vnleffekept in ftoues) in many places of Germany, Denmarke, andthofe colder Countries, And in fome extreame hard winters,it hath wellneere perithed here inEngland with vs,at theleaft in many places: but byilipping itis vfually,atid yearly cncreafed,to teplenith any garden, CuaroCX itl. Myrt i. The Mirtle tree or buth. growing there, which will not fructifie in'this of ours, ‘not ‘yet abide without ex- ‘raordinary care,and conueniencie withall; to preferuethem from the fharpeneffe of our winters. I thall only'bring youto view three forts in this my Garden, the one with a greater, the other two withdefferléaiies; ‘as the remainder of othérs which wee haue rae and whichare preferued fromtimeto time,’ not withotit mitch paine and trouble. 1. Myrtus latifolies; Thegrtarer leafed Mirtle. with vs, fullof branches and leaues growinglike a {mall buth, the ftemmeandelder Tt dowreth oftentimes twice in thé yeate ; inthe Spring firft, from Apri vatill the end of Mayor Tune, and in Auguft and Septemberafter , if the >" branches whereofare couered witha dark coloured bark, but the young with a green, and fome with ared, efpecially ypon the firft fhooting forth, whereon are fet many ftefh greene leaves,very {weet in fmell,and vety pleafant to behold, fo neer refembling the leaues ofthe Pomegranate tree that groweth withvs, that theyfoone deceiue maty that are not experttherein, being {omewhat broade and long, and pointed at the The Names, “Rofmaryis called of the ancient Writers, Zibanora, but with this diltia 38S Sion: Stephandmtetica, that is, Coronarie, becaufethere were other plants cale Ged Libanoré, that were for other vfes, asthis for garlands, where fowers | OB and fweete herbes were put together. The Latines calfit Rofraarinnm,Some *t3 gwould make it to be Cntorums *igram of ‘Theophraftus,as they would.make ot) Gauander tobée his Cxcorum 4léum, but Matthiolus hath {ufficiently, confur “\lted-thas errour. ; f jean monk her {trong glaflt; which being ferinthe hot Sun, an Ooyle will diftill downe into the lower glaffe ; which preferue as precious for the vfes before recited, and many more,4s experietice by practice may ettforme diuers. There is another oyle Chymically drawne, auaileable in the like manner formany thefameinwardand outward difeafes, viz. for the heart, rheuma = ticke brainés,and to ftrengthen the memory,outwardly to warme and comfort. cold benummed finewes, whereof many of good iudgement haue had muchexperience, The broaderleafed Mirtlerifeth vp to the height of \foure.or fiue foote at the moft TheTime. ends,abiding alwaies green:at the ioynts of the branches where the leaues ftand,ceme forth the dowers.vpon {mall footeftalkes,enery one by irfelfe confifting of fiuefmall White leques, with white threds inthe middle,finelling alfo very. {weet:after the flow- ttsare paft,there doearifein the hot Countries;where they. are naturalljround blacke berries,when they are ripe, wherein| arecontained many hard white ctookedfeedes; but neuer in this Countrey, as I {aid beforé::. the roore difperfevhitfelfe into many branches, with many fibres annexedthereto: 21 Adprtus minor,few minorefolie, The fnaller leafed Mirtle: * "The Vertues. now Rofmary is almoft-of4s great vfeas Bayes, or any other herbe both for {% “inward and outward remedies, ‘and as well for ciuill'as phyficall purpole: ‘ bollawardly forthehead and heart 3 outwardly for the finewesand ioynts: for ciuill vies, as all doe know, at weddings, funerals, &¢.to beftow among «friends tandthe phyficall are fo many,tharyou might bee as well tyre¢ it thereading,asI in the writing, if EHotld ferdown all that might be faido! sioité Ewilltherefore onelypiue you atafte of fome, defiting you willbe con tent therewith, There is an excellent oyle drawne fromthe flowersalove bythoheate of ‘the Sunné, auaileable for many difeafes both inward and outward andaccouateda foueraigne Balfainesit isalfo good to helpe ~ nelle 427. clofe ftopped, fetithem «in Hot horfe ding to digeft for fourteerie dayes which then being taken forth of-the dang; and vaftop ped tye a fine linneh cloth over theimouth,:and turneldownethe rhouth thereof into the mouth ofanot [: the hotCountreyes,there haue been manyforts of Mirtles found out,naturally The Place. yeare before haue been temperate, Taian nefle offight, andtb takeaway {potsjmarkes and {eartes fF ee skin sand ismade inthis manners Take aquantitieofthe dowers of R‘otmthe ofettiary;accor. ding to- your ownewill: eyther inoreor leffe,-"put them into a ftroneelaffe Thefmaller leafed Mirtleis.a lowfhrub orbuth, like vntothe former,but featee ris nef. high, with branches fpreading about the ftemme; ‘mich thickerfet with leaues thenthe former, fmaller alfo,and pointed atthcends, ofa little deeper greene colour; dbiding greene alfo winter and fummers:andovery:fweete likewife + the flowers’are White like vnto the former,andag {weere, but few not thenifelues fo plentiful on the bianches : the fruit is blacke in his naturail places, with feedes thereinas the former. 3. Atyrtus minor rotundiorefolio. Boxe Mittle, . Weehane anotherfort of this {mall kindéof Mirtle, fo like ynto the former both ‘or malneffe,deepe greene colour of the feaues, and thicke growing ofthe ee that |