The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 





Ibme dry, but not hot or windy place, and then plant it in the ground vnder a South 

 wall, or 1'uch like defended place, which will fpring, and no doubt prol'per well 

 there, in regard the greatell and deepell trolls are pall after February, Ib that feldome 

 any great trolls come after, to pierce fo deepe as the rootc is to be fet, or thereby to 

 doe any great harme to it in fuch a place. 



The Place. 



This hath been often lent out of Turkic, and likewife out of Italy ; I had 

 likewife two rootes lent mee out of Spainc by Guillaume Boel before rc- 

 membred, which (as hee faid) hee gathered there, but they profpcred not 

 with me, for want of the knowledge of the former rule. It may be likely that 

 Arabia is the place, from whence they of Conftantinople receiue it. 



The Time. 



It flowreth in May, if it be of the firft yeares bringing ; or in lune, if it 

 haue been ordered alter the manner before fet downe. 



The Names. 



It hath been fent out of Italy by the name of Lilium Alexamirinum, The 

 Lilly of Alexandria, but it hath no affinity with any Lilly. Others call it 

 Hyticinthus Arabicus ; and the Italians, lac intho del pater no/fro: but it is no la- 

 cinth neither, although the flowers be like fome of them. Some alfo would 

 reterre it to a Narctffus or Daffodill, and it doth as little agree with it, as 

 with a Lilly, although his flowers in largenefle and whitenefle refemble a 

 Daffodill. Clufius hath mofl fitly referred it to the flocke or kindred of 

 Ormth'jgala, or Starres of Bethlehem, as wee call them in Englifh, and 

 from the Turkifh name, Zumbul Arabi, entituled it Ornit/ioga/um Arabicum, 

 although Zumbul, as I haue before declared, is with them, a lacinth, wee 

 may call it in Englifh, The Arabian Starre-flower, or Starre of Bethlehem, 

 or the great Starre-flower of Arabia. 



I . Ornithogalum maximum album. 

 The greatell white Starre-flower, or Starre of Bethlehem. 



This great Starre-flower hath many faire, broad, long, and very frefh green leaues, 

 riling vp very early, and are greater, longer, and greener then the leaues of any Ori- 

 entall lacinth, which doe abide greene, from the beginning or middle of lanuary, or 

 before fometimes, vntill the end of May, at which time they begin to fade, and the 

 (lalke with the head of flowers beginneth to rife, fo that it will haue either few or no 

 leaues at all, when the flowers are blowne : the ftalke is ftrong, round, and firme, ri/mg 

 two foote high or more, bearing at the toppe a great bulh of flowers, Teeming at the firfl 

 to be a great greene eare of corne, for it is made fpike-falhion, which when the flowers 

 are blowne, doth rife to be very high, (lender or fmall at the head aboue, and broad 

 fpread and bufhing below, fo that it is long in flowring; for they flower below firft, 

 and fo vpwards by degrees: thefe flowers are fnow white, without any line on the 

 backllde, and is therein like vnto the former, as alfo in whitenefle, but nothing fo 

 large, with a white vmbone or head in the middle, befet with many white threeds, 

 tipt with yellow : the feede is blacke and round, contained in three fquare heads : the 

 roote is great, thicke, and fhort, and fomewhat yellowiih on the outlide, with a flat 

 bottome, both like the former, and next that followeth. 



2. Ornit/iogalum maiu s fpicatum album. 

 The great white fpiked Starre-flower. 



This fpiked Starre-flower in his growing, is fomewhat like vnto the laft defcribed, 



but 



