1 8 The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



the double ; the fingle being fmall flowers, confifting of fiue leaues, with many yel- 

 low threads in the middle : and the double bearing more double flowers, as if they 

 were once or twice more double then the fingle, with yellow thrummes alfo in the 

 middle, both of them of a very fweete and pleafing fmell, refembling Muske : fome 

 there be that haue auouched, that the chiefeft fent of thefe Rofes confifteth not in the 

 leaues, but in the threads of the flowers. 



19. Rofa Mofchata multiplex alter a : alijs Damafcena alba, 

 ve/ verijimilior Cinamomea fare plena albo. 

 The double white Damaske Muske Rofe. 



This other kinde of Muske Rofe (which with fome is called the white Damaske 

 Muske, but more truely the double white Cinamon Rofe) hath his ftemme and bran- 

 ches alfo fhorter then the former, but as greene : the leaues are fomewhat larger, and 

 of a whiter greene colour ; the flowers alfo are fomewhat larger then the former dou- 

 ble kinde, but (landing in vmbels after the fame manner, or fomewhat thicker, and of 

 the fame whitifh colour, or a little whiter, and fomewhat, although but a little, neare 

 the fmell of the other, but nothing fo ftrong. This flowreth at the time of other Ro- 

 fes, or fomewhat later, yet much before the former two forts of Muske Rofes, which 

 flower not vntill the end of Summer, and in Autumne ; both which things, that is, the 

 time of the flowring, and the fent being both different, fhew plainly it cannot be of 

 the tribe of the Muske Rofes. 



20. Rofa Hifpanica Mofchata fimplex. The Spanifh Muske Rofe. 



This Spanifh Rofe rifeth to the height of the Eglantine, and fometimes higher, with 

 diuers great greene branches, the leaues whereof are larger and greener then of the 

 former kindes : the flowers are fingle Rofes, confifting of fiue whiter leaues then in 

 any of the former Muske Rofes, and much larger, hauing fometimes an eye of a blufh 

 in the white, of a very fweete fmell, comming neareft vnto the laft recited Muske 

 Rofe, as alfo for the time of the flowring. 



2 1 . Rofa Pomifera maior. The great Apple Rofe. 



The ftemme or ftocke of this Rofe is great, couered with a darke grayifh barke, but 

 the younger branches are fomewhat reddifh, armed here and there with great and 

 fharpe thornes, but nothing fo great or plentifull as in the Eglantine, although it be a 

 wilde kinde : the leaues are of a whitifh greene colour, almoft like vnto the firft white 

 Rofe, and fiue alwaies fet together, but feldome feuen : the flowers are fmall and fin- 

 gle, confifting of fiue leaues, without any fent, or very little, and little bigger then 

 thofe of the Eglantine bufh, and of the very fame deepe blufh colour, euery one ftan- 

 ding vpon a rough or prickly button, bearded in the manner of other Rofes, which 

 when the flowers are fallen growe great, fomewhat long and round, peare-fafhion, 

 bearing the beards on the tops of them ; and being full ripe are very red, keeping the 

 fmall prickles ftill on them, wherein are many white, hard, and roundifh f cedes, very 

 like vnto the feede of the Heppes or Eglantine Berries, lying in a foft pulpe, like vnto 

 the Hawthorne berries or Hawes : the whole beauty of this plant confifteth more in 

 the gracefull afpecT: of the red apples or fruit hanging vpon the bufhes, then in the 

 flowers, or any other thing. It feemeth to be the fame that Clufius calleth Rofa Pumila, 

 but that with me it groweth much higher and greater then he faith his doth. 



22. Rofa Jiluejlris odora Jiue Eglenteria Jimplex. 

 The fingle Eglantine or fweete Briar bufh. 



The fweete Briar or Eglantine Rofe is fo well knowne, being not onely planted in 

 Gardens, for the fweetenefle of the leaues, but growing wilde in many woods and 

 hedges, that I thinke it loft time to defcribe it ; for that all know it hath exceeding long 

 greene fhootes, armed with the cruelleft fharpe and ftrong thornes, and thicker fet 



then 



