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The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



tomes likewife of thefe white leaues there are two red circles, about the breadth of 

 an Oten ftrawe, one diftant from another (and in fome flowers there is but one circle 

 feen) which adde a great grace vnto the flower ; for the white leaues mew their colour 

 through the peach coloured threads, and thefe red circles or rings vpon them being 

 alfb perfpicuous, make a tripartite ' 



The lefuites Figure of the Maracoc. 



make a tripartite fhew 

 of colours moft delightfull : the middle 

 part of this flower is hollow, and yellow- 

 ifh ; in the bottome whereof rifeth vp an 

 vmbone, or round ftile, fomewhat bigge, 

 of a whitifh greene colour, fpotted with 

 reddifh fpots like the ftalkes of Dragons, 

 with fiue round threads or chiues, fpot- 

 ted in the like manner, and tipt at the 

 ends with yellow pendents, (landing a- 

 bout the middle part of the faid vm- 

 bone, and from thence riling higher, en- 

 deth in three long crooked homes moft 

 vfually (but fometimes in foure, as hath 

 beene obferued in Rome by D r . Aldine, 

 that fet forth fome principall things of 

 Cardinall Farnefius his Garden) fpotted 

 like the reft, hauing three round greene 

 buttons at their ends: thefe flowers are 

 of a comfortable fweete fent, very ac- 

 ceptable, which perifh without yeelding 

 fruit with vs, becaufe it flowreth fo late : 

 but in the naturall place, and in hot 

 Countries, it beareth a fmall round whi- 

 tifli fruit, with a crowne at the toppe 

 thereof, wherein is contained (while it is 

 frem, and before it be ouer dried) a fweet 



liquor, but when it is dry, the feede within it, which is fmall, flat, fomewhat rough 

 and blacke, will make a ratling noife : the rootes are compofed of a number of excee- 

 ding long and round yellowifh browne ftrings, fpreading farre abroad vnder the 

 ground (I haue feene fome rootes that haue beene brought ouer, that were as long as 

 any rootes of Sarfaparilla, and a great deale bigger, which to be handfomely laid into 

 the ground, were faine to be coyled like a cable) and fhooting vp in feuerall places a 

 good diftance one from another, whereby it may be well encreafed. 



GRANADILLVS FRVTEX INDICVS 

 CHRISTI PASSIONIS IMAGO. 



The Place. 





The firft blew Perwinkle groweth in many Woods and Orchards, by 

 the hedge fides in England, and fo doth the white here and there, but the 

 other fingle and double purple are in our Gardens onely. The great Per- 

 winkle groweth in Prouence of France, in Spaine, and Italy, and other 

 hot Countries, where alfo growe all the twining Clamberers, as well fingle 

 as double : but both the vpright ones doe growe in Hungary and there a- 

 bouts. The furpaffing delight of all flowers came from Virginia. Wee 

 preferue them all in our Gardens. 



The Time. 



The Perwinkles doe flower in March and Aprill. The Climers not vn 

 till the end of lune, or in luly, and fometimes in Auguft. The Virginiai 

 fomewhat later in Auguft ; yet fometimes I haue knowne the flower to fhev 

 it felfe in luly. 



The Names. 



The firft is out of queftion the firft Clematis of Diofcorides, and called c 



man 



