282 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



i. Viola Jimp lex Martia. Single March Violets. 



The lingle Garden Violet hath many round greene leaues, finely fnipt or dented a- 

 bout the edges, (landing vpon feuerall fmall ftalkes, fet at diuers places of the many 

 creeping branches, which as they runne, doe here and there take roote in the ground, 

 bearing thereon many flowers feuerally at the ioynts of the leaues, which confift of 

 fiue fmall leaues, with a fhort round tayle or fpurre behinde, of a perfect blew purple 

 colour, and of a very fweete fent, it bringeth forth round feede veffels, ftanding like- 

 wife vpon their feuerall fmall ftalkes, wherein is contained round white feede : but 

 thefe heads rife not from where the flowers grew, as in all other plants that I know, 

 but apart by themfelues, and being fowne, will produce others like vnto it felfe, 

 whereby there may be made a more fpeedy encreafe to plant a Garden (as I haue done) 

 or any other place, then by flipping, as is the vfuall manner : the rootes fpread both 

 deepe and wide, taking ftrong hold in the ground. 



Flore albo. Of this kinde there is another that beareth white flowers, not differing in fmell or 



any thing elfe from the former. 



F/ore obfoleio. And alfo another, that beareth flowers of a dead or fad reddifh colour, in all other 

 things alike, fauing that this hath not altogether fo good a fent as the other. 



2. Viola Martia flore multiplici. Double March Violets. 



There is no difference betweene this Violet and the former, in any other thing then 

 in the doubleneffe of the flowers, which haue fo many leaues fet and thruft together, 

 that they are like vnto hard buttons. There is of this double kinde both white and 

 purple, as in the fingle ; but the white fort is feldome fo thicke and double as the pur- 

 ple : but of the red colour to be double I neuer heard. 



3. Viola flammea fiue tricolor. Harts eafes or Panfies. 



The Harts eafe hath his leaues longer, and more endented or cut in on the edges 

 then the Violet hath, and fomewhat round withall : the ftalkes are vpright, yet weake, 

 and ready to fall downe, and lye vpon the ground, fet here and there with the like 

 leaues, from whence come forth the flowers, of little or no fent at all, made like vnto a 

 Violet, yet more open, and with larger leaues ; but fo variably mixed with blew or 

 purple, white and yellow, that it is hard to fet downe all the varieties : For fome flow- 

 ers will be more white, and but fome fpots of purple or blew in the two vpper leaues, 

 and the lower leaues with fome ftripes of yellow in the middle : others will haue more 

 purple in them then any other colour, both in the vpper and lower leaues, the fide 

 leaues blew, and the middle yellow, and others white and blew with yellow ftripes, as 

 nature lifteth to diftribute their colours : the feede is fmall, whitifh, and round, con- 

 tained in fmall round heads : the roote perifheth euery yeare, and raifeth it felfe vp 

 plentifully by it owne fowing, if it be fuffered. 



4. Viola tricolor flore duplici. Double Harts eafe. 



We haue in our Gardens another fort, that beareth flowers with more leaues then 

 the former, making it feeme to be twice double, and that onely in Autumne ; for the 

 firft flowers are fingle that come in Summer : This is of that fort that beareth purple 

 flowers : And it is to be obferued, that the feed of this kinde will not all bring double 

 flowers, but only fome, if the ground be fit and liking, fo that if you haue once had of 

 this double kinde, you mall feldome miffe to haue double flowers againe euery yeare of 

 it owne growing or fowing. 



5. Viola flammea lutea maxima. The great yellow Panfie. 



There is one other kinde of Harts eafe, that decketh vp our Gardens not to be for- 

 gotten, whofe leaues and flowers are like the former, but more plentifull in ftalkes 

 and branches, and better abideth our Winters ; the flowers are larger then any of the 



former, 



