The ordering of the (jar den of Tleafure. 
your feedes in the lees of red Wine, you lhall faaue the flowers of thofc plants to be of 
a purple colour. If you will haue Lillies or Gilloflowers to be of a Scarlet red colour, 
you lhall put Vermillion or Cynaber betweene the rinde and the fmall heads growing 
about the rootc : if you will hauethem blew.you lliall diffolue Azur or By fc between 
the rindeand the heads: if yellow, Orpiment : ifgreene, Vardigreale, and thus of 
any other colour. Othcrsdoeaduifetoopcnthehcadoftheroote, andpoure into it 
any colour diffolued , fo that there be no fretting or corroding thing therein for feare 
of hurting the roote, and looke what colour you put in, iuft fuch or ncare vnto it lliall 
the colour of the flower bee. Some againe doe aduife to water the plants you would 
haue changed , with fuch coloured liquor as you defire the flower to be of, and they 
lhall grow to be fo, Alfo to make Rofes to bee yellow , that you Ihould grafta white 
Role (fome fay a Damaske) vpon a Broomeftalke, and the flower will be yellow, fup- 
pofing becaufe the Broome flower is yellow, therefore the Rofe will beyellow.Some 
affirme the like, if a Rofe begrafted on a Barbery bulb, becaufe both the bloCfome and 
the barke of the Barbery is yellow , &c. In the’ like manner for fents, they haue fet 
do wne in their writings, that by putting Cloues, Muske, Cinamon , Benzoin , or any 
othei fuch fweetc thing, bruifed with Rofe water, between the barke and the body of 
trees, the fruit of them will fmell and tallc of the fame that is put vnto them, and if 
they bee put vnto the toppe of therootes, or elfe bound vnto the head of the roote, 
they will caufetheflowers to fmell of that fent the matter put vnto them is of: as alfo 
to fteep the feeds of R ofes,and other plants in the water of fuch like fvvec-t things, and 
then to fovve them, and water them morning and euening with fuch like liquor , vntill 
they begrownevp; befidesanumberef fuch like rules and directions fetdownein 
bookes,fo confidently, as if the matters were without all doubt or queftion : when- 
aswithoutall doubt and queftion I will afiureyou, that they are all but mecreidle 
talcs & fancies, without all reafon or truth, or lhadow of reafon or truth : For fents and 
colours arc both iuch qualities as follow the elfence of plants, euen as formes are alfo ; 
and one may as well make any plant to grow of what forme you will, as to make it of 
what fent or colour you will; and if any man can forme plants at his will and pleafure, 
he can doe as much as God himfelfe chat created them. For the things they would 
adde vnto the plants to giue them colour, are all corporeall , or of a bodily fubftance, 
and whatfoeuerfhouldgiue any colour vnto a lining and growing plant, muft be fpi- 
iituall : for no folide corporeall fubftance can ioyneit felfewith the life and cifencc 
of anherbeortree, andthefpirituall part ofthe colour thereof is not the fa>ne with 
the bodily fubftance, but is a meere vapour that rifeth from the fubftance, and feedeth 
the plant, whereby it groweth, fo that there is no ground or colour of reafon, that 
a fubftantiall colour fhould giue colour to a growing herbe or tree : but for fent 
(whichisameere vapour)you will faythcreis more probability. Yetconfider alfo, 
that what fweete fent foeuer you binde or put vnto the rootes of herbes or trees, muft 
be either buried, or as good as buried in the earth, or barke of the tree, whereby the 
fubftance will in a fmall time corrupt and rot, and before it can ioy ne it felfe with the 
life, fpirit,and c ftence ofthe plant, the fent alfo will perilh with the fubftance : Forno 
heterogeneall things can bee mixed naturally together,as Iron and Clay ; and no other 
thing but homogeneall,can be nourifliment or conuertibleinto the fubftance of man 
or beaft : And as the ftomach of man or bead altereth both formes, fents, and colours 
of all digeftible things ; fo whatfoeuer fent or colour is wholfome,and not poyfonfull 
to nature, being receiued into the body of man or beaft, doth neitherchange the bloud 
or skinne into that colour or fent was receiued : no more doth any colour or fent to 
any plant ; for the plants are onely nourilhed by the moifture they draw naturally vn- 
to them, be it of wine or any other liquor is put vnto them, and not by any corporeall 
fubftance, or heterogeneall vapour or fent , becaufetheearth like vntotheftomach 
doth foone alter them, before they are conuerted into the natureand fubftance of the 
plant. Now for thelaft part I vndertookc to confute, that no man can by art makeall 
fiowerstofpringatwhattimeof the yeareheewill; although, aslhaue here before 
. fhewed, there are flowers for euery moneth of the yeare , yet I hope there is not any 
one, that hathany knowledge in flowers and gardening, but knoweth that the flowers 
that appeareand (hew thcmielues in the feuerall moneths of the yeare, are not one and 
the fame, and fo made to flower by art - } but that they are feuerall forts of plants,which 
