New »Principles of Gardeneng. 
oa ak Genitoa tr DADE 
Of Violets. 
1. Their, Names. 
HE Violet is called in Greek ioy, ‘of Theophraftus both 
vy, and perdvoy, in Latin Nigra Viola, or black Violet 
of the blackifh purple Colour of the Flowers. The Apothe- 
caries retain the Latin Name (which is fomething wonderful, 
for they {eldom care to. call any thing by the true Name as 
other People do) viz. Viola, Ot Herba violaria Cy mater 
violarum ; in High Dutch ris called Blanviel ; in Low Dutch 
violeten ; in. Italian. viola mammola; in Spanifh violata;. in 
French violette de mars and in Engli(h Violet. 2 ey 
Nicander in his Geoponicks belicyes (as Hermolaus theweth) 
that. the, Gracians, did, call it, sv, becaufe thar fome certain 
Nymphs.o Tonia 5. gave that Flower firft to Fupiter ; and others 
fay, that it, was called ov, becaufe that when & piter had turn’d 
the young Damfel Jo, whom he tenderly loved, into a Cow, 
the Earth brought f rth this Flower for her Food, and _as it 
was made for het Sake, «received that Name from her. And 
thereupon ‘tis thought that the Latins alfo called it viola, as 
though they. fhould fay vitula, by leaving or blotting out the 
Detter fein -s «0 wie peasant a Naim 7 
Servius alfo reporteth, that for the fame Caufe, the La- 
tines do likewife Name it vaccinium, ailedging the place of 
Virgil iti his Bucolicks. | | 
Alba liguftra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur. 
Notwithftanding Virgil in his to Eelog. thews that Vaccr- 
nium and Viola do differ. Sy vem, ; 
7 ——Et. nigra viole dm vaccinia nigra. ° 
Of Violets we have a very great Variety, as fitft, The put- 
ple Garden Violet, called’ in Tatin Viola nigra five purpurea. 
Secondly, The white Garden Violet called Viola flore albo. 
Thirdly, The double purple Garden Violet called Viola martia 
purpurea multiplex. Fourthly, The double white Violet called 
as soz 6 Viola 
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