I2O The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



cinth ; his ftalke is likewife long, (lender, and greene, bearing at the toppe two or 

 three flowers at the mod, very double and full of leaues, of a pure white colour, with- 

 out any other mixture therein, hanging downe their heads a little, and are reafonable 

 fweete. I haue this but by relation, not by fight, and therefore I can giue no further 

 afTurance as yet. 



The Place. 



All thefe Orientall Jacinths, except the laft, haue beene brought out of 

 Turkic, and from Conftantinople : but where their true originall place is, 

 is not as yet vnderftood. 



The Time. 



The two firft (as is faid) flower the earlieft, fometimes before Chriftmas, 

 but more vfually after, and abide a great while in flower, in great beauty, 

 efpecially if the weather be milde, when as few or no other flowers at that 

 time are able to match them. The other greateft kinde flowreth alfo earlier 

 then the reft that follow, for the moft part. The ordinary kindes flower 

 fome in March, and fome in Aprill, and fome fooner alfo ; and fo doe the 

 double ones likewife. The bufhy ftalked lacinth flowreth much about the 

 fame time. 



The Names. 



The former two forts are called Hyacinthus Orietitalis Brumalis, and Hya- 

 cinthus Orientalis prcecox JJore albo, or ceeruleo. The third is called of many 

 Zumbul Indicum, or Zumbul Indi, and corruptly Simboline ; of others, and 

 that more properly, Hyacinthus Orientalis maior preecox. The Turkes doe 

 call all Jacinths Zumbul, and by adding the name of Indi, or Arabi, do (hew 

 from what place they are receiued. In Englim, The greateft: Orientall la- 

 cinth ; yet fome doe call it after the Turkifh name Zumbul Indi, or Simboline, 

 as is faid before. The reft haue their names fet downe in their titles, which 

 are moft fit for them. 



Hyacinthus Hifpanicus minor Orientalis facie. 

 The little Summer Orientall lacinth. 



This little lacinth hath foure or fiue long narrow greene leaues, lying vpon the 

 ground, among which rifeth vp a (lender fmooth ftalke, about a fpanne high or more, 



Flare caruleo. bearing at the toppe many (lender bleake blew flowers, with fome white ftripes and 

 edges to be feene in inoft of them, fafhioned very like vnto the flowers of the Orien- 

 tall lacinth, but much ("mailer : the flower hath no fent at all ; the feede is like the feede 

 of the Englifh lacinth, or Haref-bels : the roote is fmall and white. 



Flare albo. There is another of this kinde, differing in nothing but in the colour of the flower, 



which is pure white. 



Flare rubente. There is alfo another, whofe flowers are of a fine delayed red colour, with fome 

 deeper coloured veines, running along the three outer leaues of the flower, differing 

 in no other thing from the former. 



The Place. 



Thefe plants haue been gathered on the Pyrensean Mountaines, which 

 are next vnto Spaine, from whence, as is often faid, many rare plants haue 

 likewife been gathered. 



The Time. 



They flower very late, euen after all or moft of the Jacinths, in May for 

 the moft part. 



The 





