342 Lhe Garden of pleafant Flowers.” 
to deferibe it + bur yet becaufel vfe not to paffe ouer any plant fo flightly , I will fer 
down the defcription briefly, io regard iris fo common.It is very like vnto the former 
fingle female Peony, both in ftalkes and leaues, but that it groweth fomewhat higher, 
and che Iéaues ate of 2 frefher greene colout ‘the flowers atthe tops of the ftalkes are 
urge, thicke, and’ double (no flower that'l know fo faire; great, and double; bur 
iding blowne aboue ei; ht orten daies) of a more reddit purple ¢olour then 
the fone female kinde; and of dfweeter fent': after thefe fowers are paft}{ometimes 
_ come gddd feed, which being fowne, bring Forth fome finglefiowets and fome dou 
_ ble: the roores are tuberous, like yato the formerfemale.- ' ° 
he Paani fe Sees ¢ er pee ex cent ide fngle blufhPeony. ———S 
cc Mlb innicielisy 
Bes nk re i saan The able Peony > 
SOUR AO ORY GigE gar tg tees 3 ig YO a : 
‘The double bluth Peony bs cis Rakes fo high as’ the Ct ane 2 
nN ‘bute 
what lower and ftiffer,beari *fuch ike winged leanes,cut in ordinided hereandthere 
in the edges, asall thefe feaiale kindes arc, but not fo large as the laft : the flowers arc 
{maller,and |cfl¢ double by a good deale then the former double red, ofa faint fhining 
crimfon colour at thefirft opening; but decaying or waxing paler eatery day: Yothe 
after it hath ftadd long (for this flow er fheddeth not hisleaues in a great while) it will 
change fomewhat whitith ; andtherefore diuers haue ignorantly calledit, the double 
white Peony’: the feedes , “which fometimes it beareth ‘and rootes,are likevnto the 
former female kindes, but foimewhat longetjandofs brighter colour onthe outfide. 
“as Peomia famine Bycaivide The ile red Peony of | Conitantinople, % yi | 
‘ 
| ica maar onftantin« leis very like inal hin; s vnto the double red Pe: 
onic, but thatthe flowers he cof ar fingle, ae s larg ‘as the laft and that 4s large 
then either the fingle female, rthe malekinde, rch a leaues, of a deepet 
red colour then either the fingle or double Peonies, a idnoc purplifh ar all, but rather 
of the colour of an red Tulipa,ftanding clofe and coma together : the roots 
of this kinde hane longer ode arene femalckinde, and 
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arn _ Retire dipatergnoesecirertpe 
rr iepalicctoris May, bac fome estas sidetmaline, and 
“smn peeks, 
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