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Show Tbe Gardenof pleafant Flowers. The garden ofpleafant Ebumers,.. i forincreafe, butprofpereth one Y, or morefre quently, in loamie or clay Tz grounds themin-any other foyles (saws Crap. GXXXI. Maiorana, Sweete Maricrome. Eehaue manyforts of Marierome ; fome that are fweete, and but Sum. mer plants; othersthat are greater and not {ofweet ; and fore alfo that arewilde. Of allthefe I will onely felectfome of the choifeftthatarg of fimples,ot fit for this'place, and leaue the otherfor the next garden;and the garden Mattickey called plant {weete ther adioyneano will I hereunto yet agenerall worke: as participating necrer with themthen with Time, whereunto many doeteferre it, 1. Maiorane maior etiva, Common {weet Matierome. The {weet Marieromethatis moft ftequently fowen.in our Country, is alowherbe little aboue afootchigh when it is atthe highe(t, fullof’branches, and fmall whitih foft roundith leaues, {melling very fweet: at the toppes of ‘the branchesftand divers {mall {caly heads,like vnto knots, (and therefore of fomecalled knotted Maricrome) of-awhitith greene colour, our of which come here and therefmall white flowers,and afterwards finall reddith feede : the rooreis compofed of many {mall thredsor ftrings, which perifh with the whole planteuery yeare. 2. Matoranatenuifolia, Maricromegentle. This Marieromehath likewife diners {mall branches, growing low, and not highet thenthe former, but havingfiner and {maller-leaues,hoary and foft,but much fwecter: theheadsare like vato the former, -and fo arethe flowers and {eede, andthewhole plantabiding but. aSummerin the like manner. 3. Maru. HerbeMatticke. SPHE Tid'e.d DPM) ae . ‘The neerer refemblancethatthis herbe hath with Marierome then with Tyme(3 . | {aid before) hath mademeplaceit next¥nto the {mall fweet Marierome.It rifeth yp witha greater,and a more.woody ftalké then Marierome, two foote:high orbetter fome places, whercit liketh the ground andayre, branching out on all fidestowards the vpper part, leaving the ftemme bare below,if itbeeold;” otherwifebeing youn, thinly furnifhing the braachés from thebottome with fmall greene leaves, biggerthen the leaues of any. Tyme, “and comming neere vito the bigneffe and forme of the laft recited finér Marierome, butof a greener colour : at the toppesof the branches ftand sti VvBak of y w Uses 13 Saibssiqh _ The fiveete Matictoinies beare their knotsbr (alyheads in heen Prat ly,or if Augutt, HerbeMufticke in lune thany times,” or’ inthe beginhing” offaly. ° rerntly Oat we The‘Names, ri 82° % ot in Thefirt ofthe rwo fweetMurietomes'called Ataiorans in Lavine Bimdiore ‘eara,istaken of moft writers tobe the Amsaraces or Sanipfachum of Dioleorides, Theophraftus and Plinicjatthough Galen doth'feem lictleto @iffent® thetefrom. The other:fweee Maricrome Hathhis namein his titleas much as-can be {aid of vit.The negeisthought bythe belt ofthe moderne Writers tobethe true Afarum that Galen preterreth for the excellent fweetnefle,beforethe former Maricrome ivmeking theOtexm;or vuugieutum Amaricinums, and feemethto inclineto their opinion thatthought Amsaracus was deriued fo frompAtedon, Ieisthe famepifo bhat Gdlen‘and others'of the ancient Writersmake:mention of,to 26 incothe compofitibn of the Trechi/e Hedychroi; as wellias Amaracusamong theingredientsof the Theriats Andromachi, Ini Eniglifh we call it Mattickedfimply; or Hetbe Mattick, bothto diktinguithic from that Tyme thatis called Mafticke Tyme, atid from the Mafticke Tree; or Gum; focalled. Someoflatertimes, and Clufius with them, haue thoughtithis tobeDiofcorides his Tragoriganum; which doth fomewhatre= fembleit : bur there is another plantthat Matthiolus ferteth forth forsaaes vam, that in Lobels opinionand mine is the truelt Trazorigasum, andthis the trueft Adaruiss PAIR, Cor 5 out: The Vertues. The f{weete Maricromesare not onely much vied to pleafethe outward fenfes in nofegayes, and inthe windowes of houfes, asalfoin fweete pou~ ders, fweetebags, and {weete wafhing waters, butarealfoof much vfein Phyficke, both to comfort the outward members, or patts of the body,and the-inward alfo : to prouokevrine being ftopped, and to'eafe the paines thereof, and tocanfe the feminine courfes. Herbe Mafticke is ofgreater forceto helpe the {topping of vrine, then the Marierome, andis put into Antidotcs, as a remedie againft the poyfon of venemous Beatts. {mall white flowers ona head,which afterwatds.turne into aloofe tuft ofalong white hoarymatter, like vnto foft doune, with fome leauesvnderneéath and aboutit, whic | abide not long on theftalkes,but are blowneaway with the winde : the/feede 1s {fo “fimall if it haue any, thar Fhauenot obfervedit : the raore isthreddy : the wholeplant Cuar.CXxxI Thymum. Tyme. isof afweetetefinous fent;fronger then the Maritrome)and-abideth our winters, itbe carefully planted andregarded. v The Place. ee The fweete Maticromes grow naturally in ot Countrey¢s + the firft sp Spaine éc, thefecond is thought tocomeontot Syria; OF Periiafirkt inte Italic, wherethey'much efteemeit, and planrit Curiduflyiand carefully ig pots, and fetthemin their windowes, beeing.much delighted therewith !o the {weet fentit hath, The firft isyfually fowen every ycate in molt gare’ with vs: butthefecond is very rareand daintiéandmuft as daintely bepit ferned, being more tender thentheformer, The herbe Mafticke is thougt tobefirft brought ourof “Candie, Clufius faith he found itin Spaine+ “e planted byflippes,(and not fowen) in many gardens,andis much replae ee are many kindes of Tyme, as they are vfually called with vs, fomearé calledof the. garden , and others wilde, whichyet for their fweetneffe are broughtintogardens, as Muske Tyme, and Lemon Tyme; and fome for their tauty ,as embroidered or gold yellow Tyme, and white Tyme. Butthe true Tyme ofthe ancient Writers , called Capitatwm , asa {peciall note of diftinéion fromall otherkindes ofTyme, is very fare to be feene with vs here in England, byreafon of the tenderneffe, that it will not abide our Winters. Andallthe other fortsthat with vs arecalled garden Tymes, are indeede but-kindes of wilde Tyme,althoughin the fet or want of the true Tyme,they are vied in the ftead of it. Withthe Tymes Imu In 1 1 { ® y ] i ae doe.asI did with the Marieromesiin the Chapter before, that is,referue the mor com- Mon invfe, for the common vfe of the Kirchen,and fhew you only thofe here,that are buttoa few. Rot put tothatvie : and firft withthe true Tyme,becaufeit isknowne 1,hymn |