| “446 x T be Garden of pleafant Flowers. 
"3. Sugrthe luiube treesin the other he faith,that certain do affirme,that the Cypras 
+> -oftheBaft Country, and the Ligastram of Italy is one andthe fame plant; 
>. “whereby youmay plainly fee,that our Priuet which is Ligufiram, cannotbe 
that Cyprus of Plinie with Iuiube leaues: Befides,both Diof corides & Plinie 
-« fay,that Cyprs isa tree ; but all know that Ligufirwm, Priuet, is but an hedge 
buth : Againe; Diofcorides faith, thatthe leaues of Cyprus giuea red colour, 
‘bue Priaet giveth none. | Bellonias and Profper Alpinus haue both recor« 
© © «i ded, rhatthe true Cypras of Diofcorides groweth plentifully in Egypr, Sy- 
_ #iayand thofe Eafterne Countries , atid nourfed vp alfo in Conftantinopie, 
ein! and other parts of Greece, being a merchandife of much worth, in that they 
o> otranfport the leaves, and young branches dryed, which laid in water ginea 
>> yellow colour, wherewith the Turkifh women colour the nailes of their 
harids , and fome other | parts of teir bodies likewife , delighting much 
therein : and that it isnot our Ligefram, or Priuet , becaule Cypras beareth 
round white feedé, like Coriander feede, and the leaues abide greene al- 
waies vpon the tree, which groweth (if it bee not cut or pruined)tothe - 
height of rhe Pomegranettree.] haue (I confefle) beyond the limits I fet for 
this worke fpoken concerning our Priuet, becaufe I havehadthefeedeof — 
evity ove thétrueCypras of Diofcorides fent mee, which was much differing from 
cy) |. our Priuet, and alchough it {prang vp ka would not abide any time, 
- (  whereasif ithad beeneour Priuet, it would haue beene familiar enough 
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("""‘Saluia variegata. Party colouredSage, And 
. Masorana verficolor fine aurea. Yellow or golden Marierome. 
isa” yr Nrovall thefe flowers of beauty and rarity , I muft adioyne two other plants, 
© WY -pararethem from the others of their tribe, to placethem here in one Chapter, 
-beforethe.fweete herbes that fhall follow , asis firceftto furnifh this our Gardewof 
_ pleafire.: This kinde of Sage groweth with branches and leaues , very likethe ordi- 
mary Sage, but fomewhat fmaller, thechiefeft difference confifteth in the colour of 
the leaues, being diuerfly marked and {potted with white and red among the greene: 
for ypon one branch you fhall haue the leaues feuerally marked one from anether, as. 
the one halfe of the leafe whire, and the other halfe greene, with red thadewed ouer 
-them both, or more white then greene, with fome red in it, either parted or fhadowed, 
or dafht here and there, or more greenethes white, and red therein, eyther in the mid- 
dle orend of theleafe, ormoreor leffe parted or ftriped with white and red inthe 
greene, or elfe fometimes wholly greene the whole branch together, as nature lifteth 
to play with fuch varieties : which manner of growing rifing from ene and the fame 
‘plant, becaufe it ische more variable, isthe moredelightfulland much refpedted, 
There is another {peckled Sage parted with white and greene, but itis nothing of 
\ that beauty to this, becaufe this hath three Colours euidently to bee difcerned in eucry 
Icafealmoft, the red adding a fuperaboundantgracetothereft. = 
. Meiorans aures fine verficolor, ‘Yellow ot golden Maricrome. 
-\caThiskinde of Maricromebelongeth to that fort is called in Latine Meloranc latife 
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