The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 
ee ne 
“r ban foe The tree of life. i ee Us 
Ts te of lif rifeth pin ome places whereithath ood long tobeatrceof 
what like ynto Sauine, being 
were brayded or 
which ripen well in many places, and being fownc, doc {pring and bring forth plants, 
- 
It dowreth in theend of May, and in Iune ;the finitis ripe in the ‘onl 
ef Auguftand Sptember. : NL Se a! el 7 
4 The Nagiets aig Pcl 27 
_ Allthe Writers that hauewrittenof it, finceit was firft knowne, hane 
made it to be Thuye gewus,a kinde of Thuya, which Theophraftus compa- 
eth vntoa Cyprefic tree, in his fifth Bookand fifth Chapter : but Omue fi- 
mile non oft idem and although it haue fome likenefle,yet1-verily beleeue.it is 
proprism fui genus,a proper kinde of it owne, notto bec paralleld with any 
other. Forwee finde but very few trees, herbes, or plants in America, 
like ynto thofe that growein Europe, the hither part of Africa ,-orin the 
leffer Afia, as experienceteftifieth. Some would make it tobe Cedrus Lycia, 
~butfoitcannotbe. The Frenchrhat firft broughtit , called it arbor vita, 
with whar reafon or vpon what ground I know nor: but euer finceit hath 
continued vader thetitle ofthe Tree of life, _ es en TE 
The Vertues. 
Irhath beenc found by often experience, that the leaues hereof chewed 
inthe morning fafting, for fome few dayes together, have done much good 
to divers, that haue beenc troubled with fhortneffe of breath , and tohelpe 
to expectotatethinne purulentous matter ftuffing the lungs. Other proper- 
ties I hauenotheardthat ithath ; but doubtleffe, the hot tfinous nel 
talte 
