ee oo i 0g — ea tres 
“a _ tke nee of the facie of Plea a “ 
WI 
cS | | 1 eg: a iissisas aes SU nion 
“Thenatare cade wanes a theta are ‘alia ofualy zl 7, fone 
this Kingdome (when as our forefathers knew few ornone of thofe that are res 
7 Pi that a lr plated ia foratiet times in- Gatdess “sa 
cited before) haue by timeand. cuftome attained the name of Englith flowers, 
although the moft of them werencuet naturall of thisour Land, but broughtin from 
other, Countries at onetime or other, by thofethat tooke pleafurei in them where they 
firft fay them : and I doubt not, but many other forts than here are fet downe;or now 
knowne to vs, haue beene brought, which either haue perithed by their negligence or 
want of ‘skill that brought them, or.elfe, becaufethey could not abide our cold Win- 
ters.; thofe onely remaining with vs that haue endured of themfelues,and by their en 
creafing haue beene diftributed ouer the whole Land. If I fhould make any large dif- 
courfe of them, being fo well knowne toall, I: doubt I thould makea long taleto {mall 
purpofe; I willthereforeburbriefly recitethem , that you may hauethem together in 
one place, with! claration of the nature and quality of them, and fo paffe 
to other matters, ‘And firtt of Primrofesand Cowflips,whereofthereare many pret- 
tievarieties , fome better knowne inthe Welt parts of this Kingdome, others’ in: the 
North, than in any other, vatill of late being obferued by fome curious louers of vari- 
etics, they hauebeen tranf{planteddiuerfly, sd fomade more common : foralthough 
we haue had formerly.in thefe parts about London greene Primrofes vfually , yet we 
neuer {aw or heard of greene Cowflips both fingleand double butof late dayes, and 
fo likewife for Primrofes to be both fingle and double from one roote, and diuers vp- 
on oneftalke of diuers fathions, Lam fure is not vfuall: all which 8 rather to fics 
panied vader fome hedge, or fence, or inthe fhade,thanin the Sunne. Single Rofe. 
Rosrriag plants and blufhas well as Orange colour, all of them 
amoderate 
ith Raadoress ssitiararrradncrcommnans ies for his brauer y doth well 
arekinc Je Campio 1 atthe, 
and will poe caida Sunne but net a epee Wall pat are common 
rh Garden, as = abe the fi le “az seh kinde defi. 
prospllode ¢,) greater ki doub. ing 
cae St peor i romtesicedcn erie oobictnde sr 
ecnaagindcat 8p Stock- sillof ower) planted in | ardens to ferueto fill’ 
ofbetter things, hauing in mine opinion neither fi 
both white, red, andblufa, andthe double red Rofe Campionalfois — 
know iently, and will abide moderate Sunne as wellasthethade. ’ he'flower” 
of Briftow or None-fuch is likewife another kinde of Campion, whereof: cherie bet | 
Sunne and notthe fhadow:; Butthe Orangecolour} se 
Omenes decane vcrthy machi, sd ——— | 
