1 2 The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 



trary part will not be loft, doe what one will. Larkes heeles, or fpurres, or toes, as in 

 feuerall Countries they are called, exceed in the varietie of colours, both fingle and 

 double, any of the former times ; for vntill of late dayes none of the moft pleafant co- 

 lours were feene or heard of : but now the fingle kindes are reafonable well difperft 

 ouer the Land, yet the double kindes of all thofe pleafant colours (and fome other alfo 

 as beautifull) which ftand like little double Rofes, are enioyed but of a few : all of 

 them rife from feed, and muft be fowne euery yeare, the double as well as the fingle. 

 Panfyes or Hartes eafes of diuers colours, and although without fent, yet not without 

 fome refpecl and delight. Double Poppies are flowers of a great and goodly propor- 

 tion, adorning a Garden with their variable colours to the delight of the beholders, 

 wherein there is fome fpeciall care to be taken, left they turne lingle ; and that is, if you 

 fee them grow vp too thicke, that you muft pull them vp, and not fuffer them to grow 

 within lefle than halfe a yard diftance, or more one from another. Double Dailies are 

 flowers not to be forgotten, although they be common enough in euery Garden, be- 

 ing both white and red, both blufli and fpeckled, or party coloured, betides that 

 which is called lacke an Apes on horfebacke, they require a moift and fhadowie place ; 

 for they are fcorched away, if they ftand in the Sunne in any dry place. Double Ma- 

 rigolds alfo are the moft common in all Gardens. And fo are the French Marigolds 

 that haue a ftrong heady fent, both fingle and double, whofe glorious fhew for colour 

 would caufe any to beleeue there were fome rare goodnefle or vertue in them. Thefe 

 all are fometimes preferued in the Winter, if they bee well defended from the cold. 

 But what mall I fay to the Queene of delight and of flowers, Carnations and Gillo- 

 flowers, whofe brauery, variety, and fweete fmell ioyned together, tyeth euery ones 

 affection with great earneftnefle, both to like and to haue them ? Thofe that were 

 knowne, and enioyed in former times with much acceptation, are now for the moft 

 part lefle accounted of, except a very few : for now there are fo many other varieties 

 of later inuention, that troubleth the other both in number, beauty, and worth : The 

 names of them doe differ very variably, in that names are impofed and altered as eue- 

 rie ones fancy will haue them, that carryed or fent them into the feuerall Countries 

 from London, where their trueft name is to be had, in mine opinion. I will here but 

 giue you the names of fome, and referre you to the worke enfuing for your further 

 knowledge. The red and the gray Hulo. The old Carnation, differing from them 

 both. The Gran Pere. The Camberfiue. The Sauadge, The Chriftall. The Prince. 

 The white Carnation, or Delicate. The ground Carnation. The French Carnation. 

 The Douer. The Oxford. The Briftow. The Weftminfter. The Daintie. The Gra- 

 nado, and many other Gilloflowers too tedious to recite in this place, becaufe I haue 

 amply declared them in the booke following. But there is another fort of great de- 

 light and varietie, called the Orange tawny Gilloflower r which for the moft part hath 

 rifen from feed, and doth giue feed in a more plentiful! manner than any of the for- 

 mer forts, and likewife by the fowing of the feed, there hath been gained fo many va- 

 rieties of that excellent worth and refpecl, that it can hardly be expreffed or beleeued, 

 and called by diuers names according to the marking of the flowers ; as The Infanta. 

 The Stript Tawny. The Speckled Tawny. The Flackt Tawny. The Grifeld Tawny, 

 and many others, euery one to bee diftinguifhed from others : Some alfo haue their 

 flowers more double and large than others, and fome from the fame feed haue fingle 

 flowers like broad fingle Pinkes : the further rektion of them, viz. their order to fowe, 

 encreafe and preferue them, you mail haue in the fubfequent difcourfe in a place by it 

 felfe. Pinkes likewife both fingle and double are of much variety, all of them very 

 fweete, comming neare the Gilloflowers. Sweete Williams and Sweete lohns, both 

 fingle and double, both white, red, and fpotted, as they are kindes of wilde Pinkes, fo 

 for their grace and beauty helpe to furnifh a Garden, yet defire not to ftand fo open to 

 the Sunne as the former. Double and fingle Peonies are fit flowers to furnifh a Garden, 

 and by reafon of their durability, giue out frefh pleafure euery yeare without any fur- 

 ther trouble of fowing. And laftly, Hollihocks both fingle and double, of many and 

 fundry colours, yeeld out their flowers like Rofes on their tall branches, like Trees, to 

 fute you with flowers, when almoft you haue no other to grace out your Garden : the 

 fingle and double doe both yeeld feed, and yet doe after their feeding abide many 

 yeares. Thus haue I mewed you moft of the Englifh, as well as (I did before) the Out- 



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