456 The Garden of plea fan t Flowers. 



Chameedrys. Germander. 



Left Germander fhould be vtterly forgotten, as not worthy of our Garden, feeing 

 many (as I faid in my treatife or introduction to this Garden) doe border knots there- 

 with : let me at the leaft giue it a place, although the laft, being more vfed as a itrewing 

 herbe for the houfe, then for any other vfe. It is (I thinke) fufficiently knowne to haue 

 many branches, with fmall and fomewhat round endented leaues on them, and purplifh 

 gaping flowers : the rootes fpreading far abroad, and riling vp againe in many places. 



The Place. 



Thefe Hyflbpes haue beene mod of them nourfed vp of long time in our 

 Englifh Gardens, but from whence their firft originall fhould be, is not well 

 knowne. The Germander alfo is onely in Gardens, and not wilde. 



The Time. 

 They flower in lune and luly. 



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The Names. 



The feuerall names whereby they are knowne to vs, are fet forth in their 

 titles ; and therefore I neede not here fay more of them then onely this, that 

 neyther they here fet downe, nor the common or ordinary fort, nor any of 

 the reft not here exprefled, are any of them the true Hyflbpe of the ancient 

 Greeke Writers, \>\M fuppojititia, vfed in the ftead thereof. The Germander, 

 from the forme of the leaues like vnto fmall oaken leaues, had the name Cha- 

 mcedrys giuen it, which fignifieth a dwarfe Oake. 



The Vertues. 



The common Hyflbpe is much vfed in all peftorall medicines, to cut 

 fleagme, and to caufe it eafily to be auoided. It is vfed of many people in 

 the Country, to be laid vnto cuts or frefh wounds, being bruifed, and ap- 

 plyed eyther alone, or with a little Sugar. It is much vfed as a fweet herbe, 

 to be in the windowes of an houfe. I finde it much commended againft the 

 Falling Sicknefle, efpecially being made into Pils after this manner : Of 

 Hyflbpe, Horhound, and Caftor, of each halfe a dramme, of Peony rootes 

 (the male kinde is onely fit to be vfed for this purpofe) two drams, of AJfa- 

 ftztida one fcruple : Let them be beaten, and made into pils with the iuyce 

 of Hyflbpe ; which being taken for feuen dayes together at night going to 

 bed, is held to be effectual to giue much eafe, if not thoroughly to cure thofe 

 that are troubled with that difeafe. The vfe of Germander ordinarily is as 

 Tyme, Hyflbpe, and other fuch herbes, to border a knot, whereunto it is 

 often appropriate, and the rather, that it might be cut to ferue (as I faid) for 

 a ftrewing herbe for the houfe among others. For the phyficall vfe it fer- 

 ueth in difeafes of the fplene, and the flopping of vrine, and to procure wo- 

 mens courfes. 



Thus haue I led you through all my Garden of Pleafure, and mewed you all the va- 

 rieties of nature nourfed therein, pointing vnto them, and defcribing them one after 

 another. And now laftly (according to the vfe of our old ancient Fathers) I bring 

 you to reft on the Grade, which yet fhall not be without fome delight, and that not 

 the leaft of all the reft, 



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