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night feafon it fhinech and pliteereth afarre off. As for Melilote,itcomimeth up everywhere: G 
howbeit,the beft fimply,and wherof is made the greateftaccount,is in Atrica.But in wharplace 
foever it groweth, that is moft accepted which is trefh and new gathered,not enclining to white; 
butas like unto Satfron asis poflible, And yee in Italie the white Melilote is the {weeter and 
more cdoriferous. at ad dott os : | 1 50,9109 
The firft flower bringing tidings of the Springs approch,is the white bulbous ftocka@illofre, 
And in fome warmer climats they put forth & theweven in Winter. Next unto it for their time- 
ly appearance,is the purple March Violet: andthen after them the Panfe, called in Latine Flam- 
mea,and in Greeke Phlox,] meanethewildkindonely,. 9° ihe 
Codiamirfon bloweth twice in the yeare namely,inthe Spring and che Autumne :forit can- 
not abide either Winter or Suminer. Somewhat later than thoie before rehearfed, are the Daf- 
fodill and Lillie ere they fower,efpecially in countries beyond fea. {In Italie verely (as 1 have faid 
* Palfatylla or before) they bloum not untill after Rofes:] for in Greece the Paffe- flower* Anemone is yet more 
Wind-Hower. Jaceward. Nowis this Anemone the flower of cettaine wild Bulbes,differentfrom thatother A- 
*Filipendula nemone,whereof I will fpeake in the Treatife of Phyficke-hearbes. Then followeth*Oenanthe, 
nerd of aad Melanion,and of the wild fort Heliochryfos. Afterthem, a fecond kind of Pafie-flower or 
Anemone,called alfo Leimonia,beginneth to blow. And immediately upon it the petie Glade 
or {word- grafle,accompanied with the Hyacinth. And Jatt ofall, the Rofé (heweth in her likenes. 
But quickly hath the Rofe done, and none fo foone, and yet I muftexcept the garden Rofe, Of 
* srrather che all the reft, the Hyacinths or Harebels,the *ftocke Gillo flower, and Oenanthe or Filipendula, 
Wall-fower, beare fowers longeft.But of this Oenanthe,this regard muft be had, thatthe flowers bee often 
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picked and plucked off, and not fuffered torunto feed, This groweth in warme places. It hath~ 
the very fame fent that Grapes when they firft bud and put out bloflome,whereupon it tooke the 
name Oenanthe, But before! leave the Hyacinth, 1 cannotchufe but report the fable or tale 
that goeth thereof,and which ts told two manner of waies,by reafon thatthe flower hath certain 
veines to be feene running in and our,refembling thefe two letters in Greeke A I plaine and eafie 
to be read:which as fome fay,betokenthe lamentable mone[a that “polo made for hisbeloved 
wauton mision Ayacinthis,whom he loved: or as others make report, fprung up of the blond of 
Ajax who flew himfelfe,and reprefented the two firft letters of bis name AL. 
Feliochryfosbeareth a yellow flower like to gold,a {mall and fine leafe, « litle ftalke alfoand a 
flender,out hard and ftitfe withall. Phe Magi or Sages of Perfia ule to weare this hearb and flour 
in their Gumrlands: and they be fully perfuaded,that by this meanes they fhall win grace and fa- 
vour in this life, yea,and attain to much honor in glorie ; provided alwaies,chat thar{weet com- 
poticious wherewith they annoinr and perfume chemfelves,be kept in a veflell or box of gold not 
yet fined nor purified in the fires which gold they call Apyron, And thus much for the flowers of 
the Spring, 
Now fucceed and come after in theirranke,the Summer flowers,to wit,Lychnis, Zupiters lowe 
*Somercad er ot Columbine, anda fecond kind of *Lillie : likewife Iphyon,and that Amaracusor Marje- 
Cerinthus 
, rather tari,which they call the Phiygian. Bur of al! others,the flower Pathos is moft lovely and beauti- 
fall’: whereof there be two kinds, the one with a purple flower like unto the Hyacinth sthe other 
iswhicter,and groweth commonly in chur<liyards among graves and tombes,and the fame hol- 
dethon flouring beret, and liveth longer. The flower de Luce alfo is a Summer flower. Thefe 
have their time, fade, and are fooné gone. And then come other flowers for them in their place 
in Autuane,to wit,athirdkindof Lillie,and Saffron:But of both thefe,thé one is of adullorno 
feat at all: the other is very odoriferous, But all of them breake our and fhew abroad with the 
firftfhotier of raine in Autuaine Our Chaplet-makers uferhe flowers alfo of Bedegnar or white 
Thifile in their Guirlands  and-no marvel}, tiace thar our Cookes drefle the young tendrels 
aiid crops thereof, for to make a daintie difh forto content our raft and goe pleafantlydowne 
the'throar. Thus youfeé the ordérand manner of beyond-fea howers,how and when theycome 
abroad. In Italie it is forriewh at ocherwile Yor the Rofe followeth immediately after the Violets: 
asd when the Rove is in the mids Of his iutte;in comes the Lillieto beare hiny companie.No foo- 
ner hath ehe Rofe'plaiedhis part; but the blew-Elaw entererh the {tage :and after him the Pafle- 
veleur or Flower-gentle 2s 46i the ‘Perviricle, it continueth frefh and greene all the yeare 
long*: this hearbe wiadeth atid runneth too‘and fro with her fine and flender twigges in man- 
ner’ Of thieds Orlaces; dnd thutebeferwith leaves two by wo in order,:atevery knot or joint. 
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