400 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



(as I doe) to the kindes of Ghameelaa or Thymcelcea. For want of an Englifh 

 name I haue (as you fee, and that is according to the name the Germane wo- 

 men, as Clufms faith, doe call it) entituled it the Small Rocke Rofe ; which 

 may abide vntill a fitter may be conferred vpon it. 





The Vertues. 



All thefe plants except the laft, as well leaues as berries, are violent pur- 

 gers, and therefore great caution is to bee had in the vfe of them. The laft 

 hath not beene applyed for any difeafe that I know. 



CHAP. CIIlA. 

 Laurus. The Bay Tree. 



MY meaning is not to make any defcription of our ordinary Bayes in this place 

 (for as all may very well know, they may be for an Orchard or Courtyard, and 

 not for this Garden) but of two or three other kindes, whofe beautifull afpecl: 

 haue caufed them to be worthy of a place therein : the one is called Laurus Tinus, The 

 wilde Baye : the other Laurus Rofea or Oleander, The Rofe Bay : and a third is 

 Laurocerafus, The Cherry Bay ; which may haue not onely fome refpecT: for his long 

 bum of fweet fmelling flowers, but efpecially for the comely ftatelineffe of his gal- 

 lant euer frefh greene leaues ; and the rather, becaufe with vs in moft places, it doth 

 but frutefcere, vfe to bee Shrub high, not arborefcere, Tree high, which is the more fit 

 for this Garden. 



i. Laurus Tinus Jiue jiluejlris. The wilde Bay tree. 



This wilde Baye groweth feldome to bee a tree of any height, but abideth for the 

 moft part low, mooting forth diuers (lender branches, whereon at euery ioynt 

 ftand two leaues, long, fmooth, and of a darke greene colour, fomewhat like vnto the 

 leaues of the Female Cornell tree, or between that and Baye leaues : at the toppes of 

 the branches ftand many fmall white fweete fmelling flowers, thrufting together, as it 

 were in an vmbell or tuft, confifting of fiue leaues a peece, the edges whereof haue a 

 mew of a warn purple, or light blufh in them, which for the moft part fall away with- 

 out bearing any perfect ripe fruit in our Countrey : Yet fometimes it hath fmall black 

 berries, as if they were good, but are not. In his naturall place it beareth fmall, round, 

 hard and pointed berries, of a mining blacke colour, for fuch haue come often to my 

 hands (yet Clufius writeth they are blew) ; but I could neuer fee any fpring that I put 

 into the ground. This that I here defcribe, feemeth to me to be neither of both thofe 

 that Clufius faw growing in Spain and Portugall, but that other, that (as he faith) fprang 

 in the low Countreyes of Italian feede. 



2. Laurus Rofea Jiue Oleander. The Rofe Bay. 



Of the Rofe Bay there are two forts, one bearing crimfon coloured flowers, which 

 is more frequent, and the other white, which is more rare. They are fo like in all other 

 things, that they neede but one defcription for both. The ftemme or trunke is many 

 times with vs as bigge at the bottome as a good mans thumbe, but growing vp fmaller, 

 it diuideth it felfe into branches, three for the moft part comming from one ioynt or 

 place, and thofe branches againe doe likewife diuide themfelues into three other, and 

 fo by degrees from three to three, as long as it groweth : the loweft of thefe are bare 

 of leaues, hauing (bed or loft them by the cold of winters, keeping onely leaues on 

 the vppermoft branches, which are long, and fomewhat narrow, like in forme vnto 

 Peach leaues, but thicker, harder, and of a darke greene colour on the vpperfide, and 



yellowim 



