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Show The Garden ofpleafant Flowers., Chamaarys, Germander. Left Germander fhould be vtterly forgotten, as not worthy of our Garden, feeing many(as I {aid in my treatife or introduction to this Garden) doe border knots there. with: lecme atthe leat giuc ita place, although thelaft, being more viedasa ftrewing tohaue hetbe for the houte; then for any-othervie. Itis (Lithinke) fufhiciently knownepurplith them,and many branches,with {mall and fomewhat round endented leaues, on gaping flowers : the rootes fpreading far abroad, and rifing vp againe in many places, The Place. Thefe Hyffopes haue beene moft of them nourfed vp of longtimein our Englith Gardens, but from whencetheit firft original! fhould be,is not well knowne. The Germanderalfois onely in Gardens, and notwilde. The Time. . "They dowerin June and Iuly. The Names. The {cucrall names whereby they are knowneto vs, are fet forth in thar titles ; and therefore I neede not here fay more of themthen onely this,that neyther they here fet downe, nor the commoa or ordinaryfort, noranyof the reft not here expreficd,are any of them the truc Hyffopeof the ancient Greeke Writers, but /appefitstie, vfed in the ftead thereof. The Germander, fromthe forme of the leaueslike vnto {mall caken leaucs,had the name Che /tedrys giuen it; which fignifietha dwarte Oake. the Country, tobelaid vate cuts or ffh wounds , being bruifed, and aps plyed eyther alone, or witha little Sugar. I: is mach vfed asa {weet herbs, to be in the windowes ofan houfe. I finde ic much commended againftthe Falling Sickneffe , efpecially being made inte Pils after this manner : Of atone, Horhound, and Caftor, ofeach halfea dramme, of Peonyroots (the male kindcis onelyfit to.b¢vfed for this purpofe) two drams, of Aff fetids one fcruple : Letthem be beaten., and madeinto pils withthe inye? of Hyffope ; which being taken for feuendayes together atnight going (0 NIE Thecommon Hyffope is much vfed in all pectorall medicines, to cut fleagme, and to caufleit cafilyco be anoided. Ic is vied of many people in ZoyZt 6 The Vertues. bed,is held to be effe€tuatto giue mucheate,if not thoroughlyce curethort that are troubled with that difeafe. The vicof Germander ordinarily isas Tyme, Hyfope, and other fuch herbes , to bordera knot, whereuntoitis often appropriate, and the rather, thac it might be cutto ferue (as! {aid) fot a ftrewing herbe forthe houfeamong others. Forthe phyficall vic irferucth in difeafes of the {plene, and the ftopping of vrine,and to procurew® mens courfes. _ Thus hae] led you through all my GardenofPleafure, and fhewedyouall the ¥* rieties ofnature nourfed therein, pointing vntothem » and. defcribing them one atte ce grains id Lsecorcing tothe vie of our eld ancient Fathers) 1briNg uto reft on the Grafle, which y yet thall not bewitheut i sme delight, deli heleattofalitheret. {ome an¢d chat ne! MTS 3 Se piaan citratwm.Lemon Ty me | Serpilliri haisls borrenfeGarcen wilde Tyme, pamarinn minim. 208% ? Thymumlegitimnm:Ghe tracTyme. 2 chamedrys. " Germander..4_Spartuas Anjiriacum fac Gramen Verhcoler fue auvews.Golden Hyfiope. 5 ther Grafle..7° Gramen Pridtumys! falcata 3 ainted Grafie'or Ladies‘ Laces. RY |