The Garden of p leaf ant Mowers. 





flowers (tor they arc in flower at the fame time) make a delicate Tuflimuffie, as tlu v 

 call it, or Nofegay, both tor light and lent: After the flower is pall, come the feede, 

 which are rough or vneuen, round, greenilh yellow heads, fometimes but one, and 

 fometimes two or three (binding together vpon one flalke, bare or naked of them- 

 lelues, without any huske, containing a white pulpy kernell ; the rootes are fmall, 

 and fp reading vnder ground, which perilh with the firft trolls, and muft be fowne a 

 new euery yeare ; yet there needeth no bed of horfe-dung for the matter : the naturall 

 ground will be fufficient, Ib as you defend it a little from thole frofts, that may fpoile 

 it when it is newly Iprung vp, or being yet tender. 



The Place. 



This goodly plant was firft found in the Welt Indies, and from thence 

 lent into Spaine vnto Monardus and others, from whence all other parts 

 haue receiued it. It is now very familar in molt Gardens of any curiolity, 

 where it yearly giueth ripe feed, except the yeare be very vnkindly. 



The Time. 



It flowreth fometimes in lune, but vfually in luly (if it be well defended 

 and in any good ground) and fo continueth flowring, vntill the cold frofts 

 and miftes in the middle or end of Oclober, doe checke the luxurious na- 

 ture thereof, and in the meane time the feede is ripe, which will quickly fall 

 downe on the ground, where for the moft part the bed is gathered. 



The Names. 



Some doe reckon this plant among the Clematides or Convofouli, the 

 Clamberers or Bindweedes ; but (as I faid) it hath no clafpers, neither doth 

 it winde it felfe : but by reafon of the number of his branches, that run one 

 'within another, it may feeme to climbe vp by a pole or rticke, which yet 

 doth but onely clofe it, as hauing fomething whereon to leane or reft his 

 branches. Monardus and others call it Flos fanguineus, of the red fpots in 

 the flowers, as alfo Majlnerzo de las Indias, which is Najlurtium Indicum^ by 

 which name it is now generally knowne and called, and wee thereafter in 

 Englif h, Indian Crefles, yet it may bee called from the forme of the flow- 

 ers onely, Yellow Larkes heeles. 



The Vertues. 



The Spaniards and others vfe the leaues hereof in ftead of ordinary Cref- 

 fes, becaufe the talle is fomewhat marpe agreeing thereunto, but other Phy- 

 licall properties I haue heard of none attributed to it. 



CHAR LI I. 



Viola. Violets. 



THe Garden Violets (for the Wilde I leaue to their owne place) are fo well 

 knowne vnto all, that either keepe a Garden, or hath but once come into it, 

 that I lhall (I thinke) but lofe labour and time to defcribe that which is fo com- 

 mon. Yet becaufe it is not onely a choife flower of delight, notwithftanding the po- 

 pularity, and that I let not pafle anything without his particular defcription, I muft 

 alfo doe fo by this. And hereunto I muft adde that kinde of Violet, which, although 

 it want that fmell of the other, goeth beyond it in variety of dainty colours, called 

 tricolor & flammea, or Harts cafes. 



N 2 i. Viola 



