OCR Text |
Show * The Garden of pleafant Flowers. . Poplartree,both in greatnefle and whiteneffe ofthe branches, withthe leafe of anluic, without corners on the one part, corneredon theother, and fhatpe pointed, greene on both fides almoft alike, hauing fo fenderlong footeftalkes thatthe leaues cannotftand forthright, but bend downwards, with a morerugged barke then the white Poplar tree. Clufius thinkeththis large defcription is but anampledefcription of the third kinde of Poplar, called Lybica,the Afpentree, which.Gazatranflateth Alpina : but who fo will well confider it, fhall finde it neyther anfwerable to any Poplartree,in thatit beareth not cods as Cercis doth ; nor vnte this Arbor ude, becaufeit beareth not white branches. Clufius{aith alfo, that the learned of Mom. pelier in his time, referred itto Colytes of Theophraftusin histhird booke and feuenteenth chapter,where he doth liken itto the leaues ofthe broadegt leafed Baytree, but larger and rounder, areen onthe vpperfide ,ahd whitif, Lhe Gardenofpleafant Flopers, large or. open, growing about a very-dong branchor morein length, and of ‘a faire yellow tolonr; but nor very déepe y after whith come flatthin cods, not very long or broade}but as toagh and hardad wherein are contained blackifh feades ‘like, burmich leflethe the codsiof. Broome; vera (which are as bigas a kidney beane, purplith and {pottedri the fecdeiof:4manares ) : therootethrufteth down deepeinto the ground, {preading alfo farre, andis of ayehow ith colour, The Place. ' This treegroweth naturally inmany of the woods the Alpes al (0, andis therefore ftill accounted to TheTime. — fourteenth chapter ofthe fame third booke:and by the contracti ng oftheir ] find fome doubts and differences in thefeplaces: forthe Colutea that Diofcorjdes'mentioneth in the faid fourteenth chapterof his third booke,’ hath(as he fairh there) ‘a leafe like vnto the Willow, and therefore cannot beethe fame Co/ntea mentioned in the feuenteenth chapter of the fame third book, which hath a btoade Bay leafe : indeede hee gineth feedein that with broade Bay leauesis (as he faith) without cyther flowercods : but orfiuite, and befidesall this, he faith the rootes are very yellow, which is nottobee found in this _4ror Iude,or Iudas tree: let others now indge ifthefe things can beewell reconciled together. Some haueforthe likeneffe of the cods vato Beane cods, called it Fabage, And Clufius called it Siliqua filueftris, Itis generally in thefe dayescalled —4rbor Iude, and in Englith tine nathe,vatilla fitter may be had, Indastree. after the La- The Vertues. , There is nothing extant in any Author of any Phyficall vfeithat h, ney: ther hath any later experience found out any. of Italie, and vpon bethat Laburnuzathat Plis ni¢ calleth Arbor AlpinaItgroweth:in many gardens with vs: vnderneath, and whereunto (as he faith) Theophraftus giueth cods in the defcriptions both together, faith, they agreevnto this Iudas tree.But 439. ftalke; foimetimes'a good {pan:or i are Itflowreth in May,thefruit or cods,and the feedes therein are ripein the end of, Auguft, orin Seprember. ines . . The Names. This tree (as I {aid before) is called of Matthiolus Anagyris altera, finefecwnde, of Cordus, Gefner and others, efpecially of moft now adayes, LaLurnum. Itis probable ia my opinion, thatthisfhauldbeethat Colutes of Theophraftus, mentioned in the fourteenth Chapterof his third book with the leafe of a Willow; forif youtakeany oneleafebyit felfesit may well refemble a Willowleafe bothfor formeand colour, and beareth {mall {eed in codslike vnto pulfeas chat doth. Of fomeit hath beene taken fora kinde of Cytifis, butnot tracly. We call it in Englith, Beane Trefoile, in regard of his codsand feede therein, fomewhatlike vnto Kidney Beanes, and of theleaues, three alwayes ftanding together, vatill.a more proper name may bee gitienit. The Vertues,- Thereis novfehereof in Phyficke withvs, nor inthenaturall place of thegrowing, faue only to prouoke a vomit,which it will doe very ftrongly. Crap. CXX, Labarnum, Beane Trefoile, CHar.CXXk Tes be threeforts of thefe codded trees orplants, one neére tefemblinganother, whereof Aaagyris of Diofcorides is one. The othet twoare called Léburnum , the larger whereof Matthiolus calleth Anzgyr$s altera, and{o doe fome others alfo : the third is of the fame kinde with the fecond, butfmaller. I hall not for thisour Garden trouble you or myfelfe With any mote of them then one, whichisthe leffer of thetwo Liburnam,in thatitis more frequent, and thatit will far better abide thenthe Auag yrs,which is {o tender, of out Countrey: and the greater Labarnwmis that it will hardlyendure the winters not fo eafily to be had. Lavuruum. Beane Trefoile, ‘ This codded tree rifeth vp with vs like vnto a talltree,with a reafonable ereat body, if it abide any longtimeina place, couered with a fmooth grcene barke; the branches are very long,greene,pliant, and bending any way, whereonare fer here and there diuers leaues,three alwaies ftanding together vpon a long ftalk,being fomwhatlong,an¢ not very narrow, pointed at the ends, green e onthe Vpperfide, and of a filuerfhining colour vnderneath , without any fmellatall atthe ioynts of thefe branches, where theleaues ftand,comeforth many flowers,mu:chlike vato broome flowers, but ss fo arge Cytifus. Tree Trefeile, Ta are fo manyforts ofCytéfi# or Tree trefoiles, that if I fhould relate them all, I fhould weary the Readerto ouerlooke them, whereofthe moft part per- taine rather to a generall worke then to this abftra@:I thal! not therefore troubleyou with any fuperfluous,but only with two, which we haue nourfed vp to furnifh Wafte places ina garden. ; Cytifus Maranthe, Horned Tree Trefoile; ¥ This Tree Trefoile whichis held of moft Herbarifts to bee the true Cytifis of Dior Corides, rifeth vp to the height of amanat the moft, witha body of the bigneffe ofa mans thumbe,couered witha whitith bark,breaking forthinto many whitith branches {preading farre, befet in many places with {mall leaues, three alwayes {et together vpna fmall fhort footeftalke, which are rounder, and whiter then the leaues of Beane tefoile ; atthe ends of the branches forthe moft part, come forth thefHlowers three rfouretogethers, of afine gold colour, andof the fafhion of fasowatomemyiee |