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C ii A p. V. 

 -The nature and names of thofe that are called -vfually Eng///h flowers. 



THofe flowers that haue beene vfually planted in former times in Gardens of 

 this Kingdome (when as our forefathers knew few or none of thofe that are re^ 

 cited before) haue by time and cuftome attained the name of Englifh flowers, 

 although the molt of them were neuer naturall of this our Land, but brought in from 

 other Countries at one time or other, by thofe that tooke pleafure in them where they 

 tirll law 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 perilhed by their negligence or 

 want of skill that brought them, or elfe becaufe they 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 Ihould make any large dif- 

 courfe of them, being fo well knowne to all, I doubt I Ihould make a long tale to fmall 

 purpofe : I will therefore but briefly recite them, that you may haue them together in 

 one place, with fome little declaration of the nature and quality of them, and fo paffe 

 to other matters. And firft of Primrofes and Cowflips, whereof there are many pret- 

 tic varieties ; fome better knowne in the Weft parts of this Kingdome, others in the 

 North, than in any other, vntill of late being obferued by fome curious louers of vari- 

 eties, they haue been tranfplanted diuerfly, and fo made more common : for although 

 we haue had formerly in thefe parts about London greene Primrofes vfually, yet we 

 neuer faw or heard of greene Cowflips both fingle and double but of late dayes, and 

 fo likewife for Primrofes to be both fingle and double from one roote, and diuers vp- 

 on one rtalke of diuers fafhions, I am fure is not vfuall : all which defire rather to bee 

 planted vnder fome hedge, or fence, or in the (hade, than in the Sunne. Single Rofe 

 Campions, both white, red, and blufh, and the double red Rofe Campion alfo is 

 knowne fufficiently, and will abide moderate Sunne as well as the made. The flower 

 of Briftow or None-fuch is likewife another kinde of Campion, whereof there is both 

 white flowring plants and blufh as well as Orange colour, all of them being fingle 

 flowers require a moderate Sunne and not the fhadow : But the Orange colour None- 

 fuch with double flowers, as it is rare and not common, fo for his brauery doth well 

 deferue a Mafter of account that will take care to keepe and preferue it. Batchelours 

 Buttons both white and red, are kindes of wilde Campions of a very double forme, 

 and will reafonably well like the Sunne but not the fhade. Wall-flowers are common 

 in euery Garden, as well the ordinary double as the fingle, and the double kinde defi- 

 reth no more (hade than the fingle, but the greater kindes both double and fingle muft 

 haue the Sunne. Stock-Gilloflowers likewife are almoft as common as Wall-flowers, 

 elpecially the fingle kindes in euery womans Garden, but the double kindes are much 

 more rare, and poflefled but of a few, and thofe onely that will bee carefull to pre- 

 ferue them in Winter ; for belides that the moft of them are more tender, they yeeld 

 no feede as the fingle kindes doe to preferue them, although one kinde from the fow- 

 ing ot the feed yeeld double flowers : They will all require the comfort of the Sunne, 

 efpecially the double kindes, and to be defended trom cold, yet fo as in the Summer 

 they doe not want water wherein they much ioy, and which is as it were their life. 

 Queenes Gilloflowers (which fome call Dames Violets, and fome Winter Gilloflow- 

 ers, are a kinde of Stock-Gilloflower) planted in Gardens to ferue to fill vp the parts 

 thereof for want of better things, hauing in mine opinion neither fight nor fent much 

 to commend them. Violets are the Springs chiefe flowers for beauty, fmell, and vfe, 

 both fingle and double, the more lhadie and moift they ftand the better. Snapdragon 

 are flowers of much more delight, and in that they are more tender to keep, and will 

 hardly endure the fharpe Winters, vnlefle they ftand well defended, are fcarce feene 

 in many Gardens. Columbines fingle and double, of many forts, fafhions, and co- 

 lours, very variable both fpeckled and party coloured, are flowers of that refpedt, as 

 that no Garden would willingly bee without them, that could tell how to haue them, 

 yet the rarer the flowers are, the more trouble to keepe ; the ordinary forts on the con- 

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