The Garden of plenftint Flowers. 



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(land long llalkes, bearing long hollow flowers, ending in Hue, and fomc in lix leaues, 

 very like vnto the flowers of the tirlt lalinine, but yellow, whereupon it is vl'ually cal- 

 led the Yellow lafmine : utter the flowers are paft, there come in their places round 

 blacke ihining berries, of the bignerte of a great Peafc, or bigger, full of a purplilli 

 iiiVLc, which will dye ones fingers that bruifc them but a little : the rootc is tough, and 

 white, creeping farre about vnder the ground, (hooting forth plentifully, whereby it 

 greatly encrcafeth. 



The Place. 



The ridt is verily thought to haue been firft brought to Spaine out of Sy- 

 ria, or thereabouts, and from Spaine to vs, and is to be feene very often, 

 and in many of our Country Gardens. The fecond hath his breeding in 

 Spaine alfo, but whether it be his originall place we know not, and is fcarce 

 yet made well acquainted with our Englifh ayre. The third groweth plenti- 

 fully about Mompclier, and will well abide in our London Gardens, and 

 any where elfe. 



The Time. 



The fecond fomewhat ear- 



The firft flowreth not vntill the end of luly. 

 Her. The third in luly alfo. 



The Names. 



The firtt is generally called lafminum album, and Gelfeminum album : In 

 Englifh, The white lafmine. The fecond hath his name in his title, as much 

 as may be faid of it. The third hath been taken of fome to be a Cytifus, o- 

 thers Judge it to be Polemonium, but the trueft name is Trifolium fruticam, 

 although many call it lajminum Ititeum: In Englifh moft vfually, The yel- 

 low lafmine, for the reasons aforefaid ; or elfe after the Latine name, 

 Shrubbie Trefoile, or Make-bate. 



The Vertues. 



The white lafmines haue beene in all times accepted into outward me- 

 dicines, eyther for the pleafure of the fweete fent, or profit of the war- 

 ming properties. And is in thefe dayes onely vfed as an ornament in Gar- 

 dens, or for fent of the flowers in the houfe, &c. The yellow lafmine, al- 

 though fome haue adiudged it to be the Polemonium of Diofcorides, yet it is 

 not vfed to thofe purpofes by any that I know. 



CHAP. CVII. 

 Syringa. The Pipe tree. 



Nder the name of Syringa, is contained two fpeciall kinds of Shrubs or Trees, 

 differing one from another ; namely, the Lilac of Matthiolus, which is called 

 Syringa carulea, and is of two or three forts : And the Syringa alba, which alfo 

 is of two forts, as (hall bee declared. 



i. Lilac fiue Syringa earn lea. The blew Pipe tree. 



The blew Pipe tree rifeth fometimes to be a great tree, as high and bigge in the bo- 

 die as a reafonable Apple tree (as I haue in fome places feene and obferued) but molt 

 vfually groweth lower, with many twigs or branches rifing from the roote, hauing as 

 much pith in the middle of them as the Elder hath, couered with a grayifh greene 



barke, 



