The Garden of pleafant Flowers. 



Gefncr according to the Countrey peoples name, Rofa Alpina, and Rofa 

 Montana. Lobel callcth it Halfamum Alpinum, of the fragrant fmell it hath, 

 and C/ianuerhododendros ChattHclcea folio. And lome haue called it Euonymus, 

 without all manna- o! iudgement. In Englilh wee may call it, The Moun- 

 Mine Rofe, vntill a fitter name be giuen it. The laft is called of Matthiolus, 

 Rofmarinum Jilticjbc, but of Clufius Ledum, referring it to their kindred; 

 and Silcfiacum, becaufe he found it in that Countrey ; or for diftinclion fake, 

 as he faith, it may bee called, Ledum folijs Rofmarini, or Ledum Bohemicum. 

 Cordus, as it feemeth in his Hiftory of Plants, calleth it Chamapeuce, as 

 though he did account it a kinde of low Pine, or Pitch tree. 



The Vertues. 



The firft, fecond, and fift, are very aftringent, efFeftuall for all forts of 

 fluxes of humours. The fweet Gum called Ladanum, made artificially into 

 oyle, is of fingular vfe for Alopecia, or falling of the haire. The feed of the 

 fourth is much commended againft the ftone of the Kidneyes. The fweete 

 Rofemary of Silefia is vfed of the inhabitants, where it naturally groweth, 

 againft the fhrinking of finewes, crampes, or other fuch like difeafes, whereof 

 their daily experience makes it familiar, being vfed in bathing or otherwife. 



CHAP. CXII. 

 Rofmarinum. Rofemary. 



THere hath beene vfually knowne but one fort of Rofemary, which is frequent 

 through all this Country : but there are fome other forts not fo well known ; the 

 one is called Gilded Rofemary ; the other broade leafed Rofemary ; a third I 

 will adioyne, as more rare then all the other, called Double flowred Rofmary, becaufe 

 few haue heard thereof, much lefle feene it, and my felfe am not well acquainted with 

 it, but am bold to deliuer it vpon credit. 



i. Libanotis Coronaria Jiue Rofmarinum vulgare. 

 Our Common Rofmary. 



This common Rofemary is fo well knowne through all our Land, being in euery 

 womans garden, that it were fufficient but to name it as an ornament among other 

 fweete herbes and flowers in our Garden, feeing euery one can defcribe it : but that I 

 may fay fomething of it, It is well obferued, as well in this our Land (where it hath 

 been planted in Noblemens, and great mens gardens againft bricke wals, and there 

 continued long) as beyond the Seas, in the naturall places where it groweth, that it ri- 

 feth vp in time vnto a very great height, with a great and woody ftemme (of that com- 

 pafle, that (being clouen out into thin boards) it hath ferued to make lutes, or fuch like 

 inftruments, and here with vs Carpenters rules, and to diuers other purpofes) bran- 

 ching out into diuers and fundry armes that extend a great way, and from them againe 

 into many other fmaller branches, whereon are fet at feueral diftances, at the ioynts, ma- 

 ny very narrow long leaues, greene aboue, and whitifh vnderneath ; among which 

 come forth towards the toppes of the ftalkes, diuers fweet gaping flowers, of a pale or 

 bleake blewifh colour, many fet together, ftanding in whitifh huskes; the feed is fmall 

 and red, but thereof fcldome doth any plants arife that will abide without extraor- 

 dinary care ; for although it will fpring of the feede reafonable well, yet it is fo fmall 

 and tender the firft yeare, that a fharpe winter killeth it quickly, vnlefie it be very well 

 defended : the whole plant as well leaues as flowers, fmelleth exceeding fweete. 



2. Rofmarinum jlriatum, Jiue aure urn. Gilded Rofemary. 



This Rofemary differeth not from the former, in forme or manner of growing, nor 



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