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figure of flowers, and also of as coronarium or cllncquant r 

 or brass thinly wrought out into leaves commonly 

 known among us. But the curiosity of some emperors 

 for such intents had roses brought from Egypt until 

 they had found the art to produce late roses in Rome, 

 and to make them grow in winter, as is delivered in 

 that handsome epigram of Martial 



At tu Romanae jussus jam cedere brumae 

 Mitte tuas messes, accipe, Nile, rosas. 



Some American nations, who do much excel in 

 garlands, content not themselves only with flowers, but 

 make elegant crowns of feathers, whereof they have 

 some of greater radiancy and lustre than their flowers : 

 and since there is an art to set into shapes, and curiously 

 to work in choicest feathers, there could nothing answer 

 the crowns made of the choicest feathers of some 

 tomineios and sun birds. 



The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in 

 Theophrastus, Pliny, Pollux, or Athenaeus : but we 

 may find a good enlargement in the accounts of modern 

 botanists ; and additions may still be made by successive 

 acquists of fair and specious plants, not yet translated 

 from foreign regions, or little known unto our gardens ; 

 he that would be complete may take notice of these 

 following : 



