258 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



here write is more vpon relation (which yet I beleeue to be moft true) then vpon fight 

 and fpeculation. The leaues of this Wall-flower are as greene and as large, if not lar- 

 ger then the great fingle kinde : the flowers alfo are of the fame deepe gold yellow 

 colour with it, but much larger then any of the former double kindes, and of as fweet 

 a fent as any, which addeth delight vnto beauty. 



The Place. 



The firft fingle kind is often found growing vpon old wals of Churches, 

 and other houfes in many places of England, and alfo among rubbifh and 

 ftones. The fingle white and great yellow, as well as all the other double 

 kindes, are nourfed vp in Gardens onely with vs. 



The Time. 



All the fingle kindes doe flower many times in the end of Autumne, and 

 if the Winter be milde all the Winter long, but efpecially in the moneths 

 of February, March, and Aprill, and vntill the heate of the Spring doe 

 fpend them : but the other double kindes doe not continue flowring in that 

 manner the yeare throughout, although very early fometimes, and very late 

 alfo in fome places. 



The Names. 



They are called by diuers names, as Viola lutea, Leucoium luteum, and 

 Keiri, or Cheiri, by which name it is chiefly knowne in our Apothecaries 

 mops, becaufe there is an oyle made thereof called Cheirinum : In Englifh 

 they are vfually called in thefe parts, Wall-flowers : Others doe call them 

 Bee-flowers ; others Wall-Gilloflowers, Winter-Gilloflowers, and yel- 

 low Stocke-Gilloflowers ; but we haue a kinde of Stocke-Gilloflower that 

 more fitly deferueth that name, as mail be mewed in the Chapter following. 



The Vertues. 



The fweetnefle of the flowers caufeth them to be generally vfed in Nofe- 

 gayes, and to decke vp houfes ; but phyfically they are vfed in diuers man- 

 ners : As a Conferue made of the flowers, is vfed for a remedy both for 

 the Appoplexie and Palfie. The diftilled water helpeth well in the like 

 manner. The oyle made of the flowers is heating and refoluing, good to 

 eafe paines of (trained and pained finewes. 



CHAP. XL. 



Leucoium. Stocke-Gilloflower. 



THere are very many forts of Stocke-Gilloflowers, both fingle and double, fome 

 of the fields and mountaines, others of the Sea marfhes and medowes ; and 

 fome nourfed vp in Gardens, and there preferued by feede or flippe, as each 

 kinde is apteft to bee ordered. But becaufe fome of thefe are fitter for a generall Hi- 

 ftory then for this our Garden of Pleafure, both for that diuers haue no good fent, 

 others little or no beauty, and to be entreated of onely for the variety, I mall fpare fo 

 many of them as are not fit for this worke, and onely fet downe the reft. 



i . Leucoium Jimp lex fativum diuerforum color urn. 

 Garden Stocke-Gilloflowers fingle of diuers colours 



Thefe fingle Stocke-Gilloflowers, although they differ in the colour of their flow- 

 ers, 



