410 The Garden of p leaf ant Flowers. 



for the cold windes will (as I vnderftand) greatly moleft it : and therefore muft as 

 charily be kept as Orenge trees with vs, if wee will haue it to abide. 



The Place. 



The firft groweth in Arabia (as Matthiolus thinketh, that had it from 

 Conftantinople.) We haue it plentifully in our Gardens. The fecond and 

 third are ftrangers with vs as yet. The fourth is as frequent as the firft, or ra- 

 ther more, but his original! is not knowne. The laft hath his originall from 

 Arabia, as his name importeth. 



The Time. 



The firft, fecond, and third flower in Aprill, the other two not vntill May. 



The Names. 



The firft is called of Matthiolus Lilac, and by that name is moft vfually 

 called in all parts. It is alfo called Syringa carulea, becaufe it commeth nea- 

 reft vnto thofe woods, which for their pithy fubftance, were made hollow 

 into pipes. It is called of all in Englifh, The blew Pipe tree. It feemeth 

 likely, that Petrus Bellonius in his third Booke and fiftieth Chapter of his 

 obferuations (making mention of a fhrubbe that the Turkes haue, with luie 

 leaues alwaies greene, bearing blew or violet coloured flowers on a long 

 ftalke, of the bignefle and fafhion of a Foxe taile, and thereupon called in 

 their language a Foxe taile) doth vnderftand this plant here exprefled. The 

 certainty whereof might eafily be knowne, if any of our Merchants there 

 refiding, would but call for fuch a fhrubbe, by the name of a Foxe taile in 

 the Turkifh tongue, and take care to fend a young roote, in a fmall tubbe or 

 basket with earth by Sea, vnto vs here at London, which would be perfor- 

 med with a very little paines and coft. The fecond and third, as kindes 

 thereof, haue their names in their titles. The fourth is called by Clufius 

 and others, Frutex Coronarius ; fome doe call it Lilac flore albo, but that name 

 is not proper, in that it doth confound both kindes together. Lobel calleth 

 it Syringa Italica. It is now generally called of all Syringa alba, that is in 

 Englifh, The white Pipe tree. Some would haue it to bee Oftrys of Theo- 

 phraftus, but Clufius hath fufficiently cleared that doubt. Of others Ligu- 

 Jlrum Orientale, which it cannot be neither ; for the Cyprus of Plinie is Dio- 

 fcorides his Liguftrum, which may be called Orientate, in that it is moft pro- 

 per to the Eafterne Countries, and is very fweete, whofe feede is like vnto 

 Coriander feede. The laft is called by diuers Syringa Arabica Jiore albo du- 

 plici, as moft fitly agreeing thereunto. Of Bafilius Beflerus that fet forth the 

 great booke of the Bifhop of Eyftot in Germany his Garden, Syringa Ita- 

 lica flore albo plena, becaufe, as it is likely, hee had it from Italy. It is very 

 likely, that Profper Alpinus in his booke of Egyptian plants, doth meane 

 this plant, which hee there calleth Sambach, fine lafminum Arabicum. Mat- 

 thasus Caccini of Florence in his letter to Clufius entituleth it Syringa Ara- 

 bica, Jiue lafminum Arabicum, fine lafminum ex Gine, whereby hee declareth 

 that it may not vnfitly be referred to either of them both. We may call it in 

 Englifh as it is in the title, The double white Pipe tree. 



The Vertues. 



We haue no vfe of thefe in Phyficke that I know, although Profper Alpi- 

 nus faith, the double white Pipe tree is much vfed in Egypt, to help women 

 in their trauailes of childbirth. 



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