296 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



white, and great, or large, but with vs is neither fo large, blacke, or white ; but fome- 

 times blackifh or grayifh. Some fort rifeth not vp halfe the height that others doe, 

 and fome againe beare but one ftemme or ftalke, with a flower at the toppe thereof; 

 and others two or three, or more fmall branches, with euery one his flower at the end ; 

 and fome fo full of branches from the very ground almoft, that I haue accounted 

 threefcore branches round about the middle ftalke of one plant, the loweft neare two 

 yards long, others aboue them a yard and a halfe, or a yard long, with euery one his 

 flower thereon ; but all fmaller then thofe that beare but one or two flowers, and lefTer 

 alfo for the moft part then the flower on the middle ftalke it felfe. The whole plant, 

 and euery part thereof aboue ground hath a ftrong refinous fent of Turpentine, and the 

 heads and middle parts of the flowers doe oftentimes (and fometimes the ioynts of 

 the ftalke where the leaues ftand) fweat out a moft fine thin & cleare Roffin or Turpen- 

 tine, but in fmall quantity, and as it were in drops, in the heate and dry time of the year, 

 fo like both in colour, fmell, and tafte vnto cleare Venice Turpentine, that it cannot 

 be knowne from it : the roote is ftrongly faftened in the ground by fome greater roots 

 branching out, and a number of fmall firings, which growe not deepe, but keepe vn- 

 der the vpper cruft of the earth, and defireth much moifture, yet dyeth euery yeare 

 with the firft frofts, and muft be new fowne in the beginning of the Spring. 



The Place. 



Their places are fet downe in their titles, the one to come out of Candy, 

 the other out of Peru, a Prouince in the Weft Indies. 



The Time. 



The firft flowreth in lune, the other later, as not vntill Auguft, and fome- 

 times fo late, that the early frofts taking it, neuer fuffer it to come to ripenefs. 



The Names. 



The firft hath his name in his title. The fecond, befides the names fet 

 downe, is called of fome Planta maxima, Flos maximus, So! Indianus, but the 

 moft vfuall with vs is, Flos Soils: In Englifh, The Sunne Flower, or Flower 

 of the Sunne. 



The Vertues. 



There is no vfe of either in Phyficke with vs, but that fometimes the 

 heads of the Sunne Flower are drefled, and eaten as Hartichokes are, and are 

 accounted of fome to be good meate, but they are too ftrong for my tafte. 



CHAP. LXIII. 

 Calendula. Marigolds. 



SOme haue reckoned vp many forts of Marigolds, I had rather make but two, the 

 fmgle and the double ; for doubtlefle, thofe that be moft double, rife from the 

 beft feede, which are the middlemoft of the great double, and fome would be lefle 

 double, whofe feede is greater then the reft, according to the ground where it grow- 

 eth ; as alfo thofe that be of a paler colour, doe come of the feed of the yellower fort. 



i . Calendula maxima. The great Garden Marigold. 



The Garden Marigold hath round greene ftalkes, branching out from the ground 

 into many parts, whereon are fet long flat greene leaues, broader and rounder at the 



point 



