The Garden of plcafant Flowers. 



three or foure fmall flowers were ioyned together, with euery one his fpurre behindc, 

 thegreutdl flower being outermoft, and as it were containing the reft, which arc <>t a 

 pale red, or deepe blulh colour : Another of this kinde will beare his flowers with 

 three or foure rowes of Icaucs in the middle, making a double flower with one fpurre 

 behinde onely : and of this kinde there is both with purple, blew, blufh, and 

 white flowers, and party coloured alfo ; thefe doe all beare feed like the Jingle, whcrby 

 it is increafed euery yeare. 



3. Delphinium aruenfe. Wilde Larkes fpurres. 



This wilde Larkes fpurre hath fmaller and (horter leaues, fmallcr and lower bran- 

 ches, and more thinly or fparfedly growing vpon them, then any of the former : the 

 flowers likewife are neyther fo large as any of the former, nor fo many growing toge- 

 ther, the cods likewife haue fmaller feede, and is harder to grow in gardens then any 

 of the former, the moll vfuall colour hereof is a pale reddifh or blufh colour, yet fome- 

 timcs they are found both white and blew, and fometimes mixt of blew and blufh, va- 

 riably difpofed, as nature can when (he liftcth ; but are much more rare. 



4. Delphinium elatius Jiore Jimp lid diuerforum colorum. 

 Single vpright bearing Larkes heeles of many colours. 



The difference betweene this and the lart is, that the leaues of this are not fully fo 

 greene, nor fo large ; the ftalkes grow vpright, to the height of a man, and fometimes 

 higher, hauing fome branches thereon, but fewer then the former, and (landing like- 

 wife vpright, and not leaning downe as the former : the toppes of the ftalkes are bet- 

 ter ftored with flowers then the other, being fometimes two foote long and aboue, 

 ot the fame tafhion, but not altogether fo large, but of more diuers and feueral colours, 

 as white, pale, blu(h, redde deeper or paler, afhcoloured, purple or violet, and of an 

 ouervvorne blewilh purple, or iron colour : for of all thefe we haue (imple, without 

 any mixture or fpot : but we haue other forts, among the (imple colours, that rife from 

 the fame feede, and will haue flowers that wil be halte white, and halte blu(h or purple, 

 or one leafe white, and another blu(h or purple, or elfe variably mixed and fpotted : 

 the feede and feede vefiels are like the former but larger and harder. 



5. Delphinium elatius jlore plena diuerforum colorum. 

 Double vpright Larkes heeles of many colours. 



Thefe double Larkes heeles cannot bee knowne from the (ingle of the fame kinde, 

 vntill they come towards flowring ; for there appeare many flowers vpon the ftalkes, in 

 the fame manner, and of as many colours almoft as of the (ingle, except the party co- 

 loured, which ftand like little double Roles, layd or fpread broade open, as the Rofe 

 Colombine without any heeles behinde them, very delightfull to behold, conlifting 

 of many fmall leaues growing together, and after they are fallen there come vp in 

 their places three or foure fmall cods fet together, wherein is contained here and 

 there (for all are not full of feede, as the fmgle kindes) blacke feede, like vnto all the 

 reft, but fmaller, which being fowen will bring plants that will beare both fmgle and 

 double flowers againe, and it often happeneth, that it variably altereth in colours from 

 it owne fowing : tor none of them hold conftantly his owne colour, (fo farre as euer 

 I could obferue) but fall into others as nature pleafeth. 



6. Delphinium Hifpanicum paruum. Spanilh wilde Larkes fpurres. 



This fmall Larkes fpurre of Spaine, hath diuers long and broad leaues next the 

 ground, cut-in on both iides, fomewhat like vnto the leafe of a Scabious, or rather that 

 kinde of Stoebe, which Lobel calleth Crupina^ tor it doth fomewhat neerly refemble 

 the fame, but that this is fmooth on the edges, and not indented befides the cuts, as the 

 Crupina is, being ot a whitiih greene colour, and fomewhat fmooth and foft in 

 handling : among the leaues rifeth vp a whitilh greene ftalke, hauing many fmallcr 



leaues 



