The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



The Vertues. 



We know no vfe they haue in Phyficke, but are cherifhed in Gardens for 

 their beautifull flowers fake. 



CHAP. LXIX. 

 Caryophyllus hortenjis. Carnations and Gilloflowers. 



TO auoide confufion, I muft diuide Gilloflowers from Pinkes, and intreate of 

 them in feuerall Chapters. Of thofe that are called Carnations or Gilloflow- 

 ers, as of the greater kinde, in this Chapter; and of Pinkes, as well double as 

 fingle, in the next. But the number of them is fo great, that to giue feuerall defcripti- 

 ons to them all were endlefle, at the leaft needlefle : I will therefore fet downe onely 

 the defcriptions of three (for vnto thefe three may be referred all the other forts) for 

 their fafhion and manner of growing, and giue you the feuerall names (as they are vfu- 

 ally called with vs) of the reft, with their variety and mixture of colours in the flow- 

 ers, wherein confifteth a chiefe difference. I account thofe that are called Carnations 

 to be the greateft, both for leafe and flower, and Gilloflowers for the moft part to bee 

 lefler in both ; and therefore will giue you each defcription apart, and the Orenge 

 tawnie or yellow Gilloflower likewife by it felfe, as differing very notably from all 

 the reft. 



i . Caryophyllus maximus Harwicenjis Jiue Anglicus. 

 The great Harwich or old Englifh Carnation. 



I take this goodly great old Englifh Carnation, as a prefident for the defcription of 

 all the reft of the greateft forts, which for his beauty and ftatelineffe is worthy of a 

 prime place, hauing beene alwayes very hardly preferued in the Winter ; and there- 

 fore not fo frequent as the other Carnations or Gilloflowers. It rifeth vp with a great 

 thicke round ftalke, diuided into feuerall branches, fomewhat thickly fet with ioynts, 

 and at euery ioynt two long greene rather then whitifh leaues, fomewhat broader 

 then Gilloflower leaues, turning or winding two or three times round (in fome other 

 forts of Carnations they are plaine, but bending the points downewards, and in fome 

 alfo of a darke reddifh greene colour, and in others not fo darke, but rather of a whitifh 

 greene colour :) the flowers ftand at the toppes of the ftalkes in long, great, and round 

 greene huskes, which are diuided into fiue points, out of which rife many long and 

 broad pointed leaues, deeply iagged at the ends, fet in order round and comely, ma- 

 king a gallant great double flower, of a deepe Carnation colour, almoft red, fpotted 

 with many blufh fpots and ftrakes, fome greater and fome leffer, of an excellent foft 

 fweete fent, neither too quicke as many others of thefe kinds are, nor yet too dull, and 

 with two whitifh crooked threads like homes in the middle : this kinde neuer beareth 

 many flowers, but as it is flow in growing, fo in bearing, not to be often handled, 

 which fheweth a kinde of ftatelineffe, fit to preferue the opinion of magnificence : 

 the roote is branched into diuers great, long, wooddy rootes, with many fmall fibres 

 annexed vnto them. 



2. Caryophyllus hortenjis flore pleno rubro. The red or Cloue Gilloflower. 



The red Cloue Gilloflower, which I take as a prefident for the fecond fort, which 

 are Gilloflowers, grow like vnto the Carnations, but not fo thicke fet with ioynts and 

 leaues : the ftalkes are more, the leaues are narrower and whiter for the moft part, and 

 in fome doe as well a little turne : the flowers are fmaller, yet very thicke and double 

 in moft, and the greene huskes wherein they ftand are fmaller likewife then the for- 

 mer : the ends of the leaues in this flower, as in all the reft, are dented or iagged, yet 

 in fome more then in others; fome alfo hauing two fmall white threads, crooked at the 

 ends like homes, in the middle of the flower, when as diners other haue none. Thefe 



kindes, 





