The Garden of pleafant F/owers. 



former, of a faire pale yellow colour, with Tome yellower Itripes now and then about 

 the middle ; for it is fometimes without any Itripes ; and alfo of a little deeper yellow 

 colour : this is to bee encreafed by Hips, which will foone comprehend in a moift or 

 moiltened ground, for that I neuer could obferue that it bore feede. 



The Place. 



Thel'c plants were tirft wilde, and by manuring brought to be both fai- 

 rer in colour, and peraduenture of a better fcnt then when they grew wilde. 



The Time. 



The Violets flower in March, and fometimes earlier, and if the yeare be 

 temperate and milde, in Autumne againe. The double Violets, as they arc 

 later before they flower then the fingle, fo they hold their flowers longer. 

 The Harts cafe flowreth feldome vntill May ; but then fome will abide to 

 flower vntill the end of Autumne almolt, efpecially if the frolts be not early. 



The Names. 



The Violet is called Viola nigra, purpurea, and Martia : In Englifh, Vi- 

 olets, March Violets, and purple Violets. The Harts cafe is called Viola 

 flamtnea, Viola tricolor, Viola multicolor, and of fome, lacea, Flos trinitatis, 

 and Herba clauellata : In EnglHh, Harts eafe, and Panfies, of the French name 

 Pen fees. Some giue it foolifh names, as Loue in idlenefle, Cull mee to you, 

 and Three taces in a hood. The great yellow Harts eafe is fo called, be- 

 caufe it is like in forme, and is the greateft of all other, although it haue not 

 that diuerlity of colours in it that the other haue. 



The Vertues. 



The properties of Violets are fufficiently knowne to all, to coole and 

 moilten : I (hall forbeare to recite the many vertues that may be fet downe, 

 and onely let you knowe, that they haue in them an opening or purging qua- 

 lity, being taken either frefh and greene, or dryed, and made into powder, 

 efpecially the flowers ; the dryed leaues will doe the like, but in greater 

 quantity. Coltzus in his booke of the nature of all plants faith, that the di- 

 liilled water of Harts eafe, is commended in the French difeafe, to be pro- 

 fitable, being taken for nine dayes or more, and fweating vpon it, which 

 how true it is, I know not, and wifh fome better experience were made of 

 it, betore we put any great confidence in that aflertion. 



CHAP. LI 1 1. 



EpimeJium. Barrenwort. 



THis pretty plant rifeth vp out of the ground with vpright, hard, round, fmall 

 Italkes, a foote and a halfe high, or not two foote high at the higheft, diuided 

 into three branches for the molt part, each branch whereof is againe diuided 

 tor the moll part into three other branches, and each of them beare three leaues (fel- 

 dome either more or lefle) fet together, yet each vpon his owne foote-ltalke, each 

 leafe being broad, round, and pointed at the end, fomewhat hard or dry in feeling, 

 hayrie, or as it were prickly about the edges, but very tenderly, without harme, of a 

 light greene colour on the vpperlide, and a little whiter vnderneath : from the middle 

 of the llemme or Italke of leaues doth likewife come forth another long Italke, not 

 much higher then thole with the leaues on them, diuided into other branches, each 



whereof 



