The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



ped or fet among a deale of flockie matter, as is molt vfuall, in all plants that beare 

 fcaly heads : the rootes are long and hard, perifhing euery yeare when it hath giucn 

 fced'e. 



2. Cyanus floridus Turcicus. The Sultans flower. 



As a kinde of theie Corne flowers, I muft needes adioyne another ftranger, of much 

 heautie, and but lately obtained from Conftantinople, where, becaufe (as it is faid) the 

 great Turke, as we call him, faw it abroade, liked it, and wore it himfelte ; all his vaflals 

 haue had it in great regard, and hath been obtained from them, by fome that haue fent 

 it into thefe parts. The leaues whereof are greener, and not only gafhed, but finely 

 fnipt on the edges : the ftalkes are three foote high, garnifhed with the like leaues as 

 are below, and branched as the former, bearing large fcaly heads, and fuch like flowers 

 but larger, hauing eight or nine of thofe hollow gaping leaues in euery flower, (lan- 

 ding about the middle threds (if it be planted in good and fertile ground and be well 

 watered, for it foone ftarueth and perifheth with drought) the circling leaues are of a 

 fine delayed purple or blufh colour, very beautifull to behold ; the feede of this is 

 f mailer and blacker, and not enclofed in fo much dounie fubftance, as the former (yet 

 in our Countrey the feede is not fo blacke, as it came vnto vs, but more gray) the roote 

 perifheth likewife euery yeere. 



3. Cyanus Baticus fupinus. The Spanifh Corne-flower. 



This Spanifh kinde hath many fquare low bending or creeping ftalkes, not ftanding 

 fo vpright as the former, but branching out more diuerfly ; fo that one plant will take 

 vp a great deale of ground : the leaues are broader then any of the reft, fofter alfo, of 

 a pale or whitifh greene colour, and not much gafhed on the edges : the flowers ftand 

 in bigger heads, with foure or fiue leaues vnder euery head, and are of a light pale 

 purple or blufh colour ; after which come feede, but not fo plentifully, yet wrapped in 

 a great deale of flockie matter, more then any : the roote groweth downe deepe into 

 the ground, but perifheth euery yeare as they doe. 



The Place. 



The firft or former kindes, grow many times in the Corne fields of our 

 own Countrey, as well as of others, efpecially that fort with a blew flower : 

 but the other forts or colours are not fo frequent, but are nourifhed in gar- 

 dens, where they will vary wonderfully. 



The fecond as is before fet downe, groweth in Turkic : and the laft in 

 Spaine, found out and firft fent to vs by that induftrious fearcher of fimples, 

 Guillaume Boel before remembred. 



The Time. 



The firft doe flower in the end of lune, and in luly, and fometimes fooner. 

 The other two later, and not vntill Auguft moft commonly, and the feede 

 is foone ripe after. 



The Names. 



The firft is generally called Cyanus, and fome following the Ditch name, 

 call it Flos frumenti. The olde Writers gaue it the name of Bapti feecuba, 

 which is almoft worne out. We doe call them in Engliih, Blew Bottles, and 

 in fome places, Corne flowers, after the Ditch names. The fecond hath 

 beene fent by the name of Ambreboi, which whether it be a Turkic or Ara- 

 bian name, I know not. I haue called it from the place, from whence we had 

 it, Turcicus, and for his beauty, Floridus. The Turkes themfelues as I vnder- 

 ftand, doe call it The Sultans flower, and I haue done fo likewife, that it 

 may bee diftinguiftied from all the other kindes, or elfe you may call it, 



The 



