408 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



barke, but darker in the elder branches, with ioynts fet at a good diftance one from 

 another, and two leaues at euery ioynt, which are large, broad, and pointed at the 

 ends, many of them turning or folding both the fides inward, and ftanding on 

 long foote ftalkes : at the toppes of the branches come forth many flowers, growing 

 fpike-fafhion, that is, a long branch of flowers vpon a ftalke, each of thefe flowers are 

 fmall, long, and hollow belowe, ending aboue in a pale blewifh flower, confiding of 

 foure fmall leaues, of a pretty fmall fent : after the flowers are part, there come fome- 

 times (but it is not often in our Country, vnleffe the tree haue ftood long, and is grown 

 great, the fuckers being continually taken away, that it may growe the better) long and 

 flat cods, confifting as it were of two fides, a thin skinne being in the midft, wherein 

 are contained two long flattifh red feede : the rootes are ftrong, and growe deepe in 

 the ground. 



2. Syringa Jiore laSleo fine argenteo. 

 The filuer coloured Pipe tree. 



This Pipe tree differeth not from the former blew Pipe tree, either in ftemme or 

 branches, either in leaues or flowers, or manner of growing, but onely in the colour 

 of the flower, which in this is of a milke, or filuer colour, which is a kinde of white, 

 wherein there is a thinne wafh, or light (hew of blew fhed therein, comming fome- 

 what neare vnto an afh-colour. 



3. Lilac lacimatis folijs. The blew Pipe tree with cut leaues. 



This Pipe tree fhould not differ from the firft in any other thing then in the leaues, 

 which are faid to be cut in on the edges into feuerall parts, as the relation is giuen a vi- 

 ris fide dignis ; for as yet I neuer faw any fuch ; but I here am bold to fet it downe, to in- 

 duce and prouoke fome louer of plants to obtaine it for his pleafure, and others alfo. 



4. Syringa jtore albo fimplici. The fingle white Pipe tree. 



The fingle white Pipe tree or bum, neuer commeth to that height of the former, but 

 abideth alwaies like a hedge tree or bufh, full of fhootes or fuckers from the roote, 

 much more then the former : the young fhootes hereof are reddifh on the outfide, and 

 afterward reddifh at the ioynts, and grayifh all the reft ouer : the young as well as the 

 old branches, haue fome pith in the middle of them, like as the Elder hath : the leaues 

 (land two at a ioynt, fomewhat like the former, but more rugged or crumpled, as alfo 

 a little pointed, and dented about the edges : the flowers growe at the toppes of the 

 branches, diuers ftanding together, confifting of foure white leaues, like vnto fmall 

 Muske Rofes, and of the fame creame colour, as I may call it, with many fmall yel- 

 lowifh threads in the middle, and are of a ftrong, full, or heady fent, not pleafing to 

 a great many, by reafon of the ftrange quickneffe of the fent : the fruit followeth, be- 

 ing flat at the head, with many leafie fhels or fcales compafling it, wherein is enclofed 

 fmall long feede : the rootes runne not deepe, but fpread vnder the ground, with 

 many fibres annexed vnto them. 



5. Syringa Arabica Jtore albo duplici. 

 The double white Pipe tree. 



This Pipe tree hath diuers long and (lender branches, whereon growe large leaues, 

 fomewhat like vnto the leaues of the former fingle white kinde, but not fo rough or 

 hard, and not at all dented about the edges, two alwaies ftanding one againft another 

 at euery ioynt of the ftalke, but fet or difpofed on contrary fides, and not all vpon one 

 fide ; at the ends whereof come forth diuers flowers, euery one ftanding on his owne 

 foote-ftalke, the hofe or huske being long and hollow, like vnto the white lafmine, 

 and the flowers therein confifting of a double rowe of white and round pointed leaues, 

 fiue or fix in a rowe, with fome yellowneffe in the middle, which is hollow, of a very 

 ftrong and heady fweet fent, and abiding a long time flowring, efpecially in the hotter 

 Countries, but is very tender, and not able to abide any the leaft cold weather with vs ; 



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