The ordering of the (jar den of P leafure. 
fomc^KhdeDlfcdib Narciffe^when as all know that know any Latine, thuNar- 
ciffus is the Latine name , and Daffodill the Englifh of one and the fame thing, and 
thereforealone without any other Epithite cannot properly diftinguuh feuerall mines. 
I would willingly therefore that all would grow iudicious,and call euery thing by his < 
proper Encflifli name in fpeaking Englifh, orelfeby fuch Latinename as euery thing 
hath that hath not a proper Englifh name , that thereby they may diftinguiflr the (cue- 
rail varieties of things and notconfound them, as alfo to take away all excufes of mifta- 
king • as for example : The Angle Englifh baftard Daffodill (which groweth wdde in 
many Woods, G roues, and Orchards in England.) The double Englifh ba flare] Daffo- 
dill. The French fingle white Daffodill many vpon a ftalke. The French double yel- 
low Daffodill. The great, or the little, or the lead Spanifh yellow Md^d^Daftodill, 
or the great or little Spanifh white Daffodill. The Turkie fingle white Daffodill, or, The 
Turkic fingle or double white Daffodill many vpon $ftalke 3 &c* Of Fritillana, oi the 
checkerd Daffodill, there are halfc a fcore feuerall forts, both white and red, both yel- 
low and blacke , which area wonderfull grace and ornament to a Garden in regard of 
the Checker like fpots are in the flowers. Of Iacinthes thereare aboue halfe an hundred 
forts as they are fpecified hereafter ; fome like vnto little bells orftarres , others like 
vnto little bottles or pearles, both white and blew, sky-coloured and blufb , and fome 
ftarUkcof many pretty various formes , and all to giue delight to them that will be cu- 
rious to obferue them. Of Crocus or Saffron flowers, thereare alfo twenty forts; 
fomeof the Spring time, others flowring onely in the Aurumeor Fall, earlier or later 
than another fome whereof abide but a while, others indure aboue a monethin their 
glorious beauty. The Colchicum or Medowe Saffron, which fome call the fonne be- 
fore the father, but not properly, is of many forts alfo ; fome flowring in the Spring of 
the yearc , but the mod in Autume , whereof fome haue faire double flowers very de- 
liehtfuil to behold, and fome party coloured both fingle and double fo varrable, that it 
would make any one admire the worke of the Creatour in the various fpots and ffripcs 
of thefe flowers. Then haue wee of Lillies twenty feuerall forts and colours, among 
whom I muff reckon the Crowne Imperiali , that for his ftately forme deferueth fome 
fpeciall place in this Garden, as alfo the Martagons,beth white and red, both blufh and 
vdlow. that require to be fet by thcmfelues apart , as it were in a fmall round or fquare 
of a knot, without many other, or tall flowers growing neare them. But to tell you of 
all the forts of Tulipas (which are the pride of delight) they are fo many , and as I may 
lav, almoft infinite, doth both paffe my ability , and as I belecue the skill of any other. 
They are of two efpcciall forts , fome flowring earlier , and others later than their f cl- 
lowes, and that naturally in all grounds , wherein there is fuch a wonderfull vauety 
and mixture of colours.that it is almoft impoffible for the wit of man to defcipher them 
thoroughly, and to giue names that may be true & feuerall diftindrons to euery flower 
threefcorc feuerall forts of colours Ample and mixed of each kind I can reckon vp that I 
hauc,and of efpcciall note, and yet Idoubtnot,but foreuery one ofthera there are ten o- 
thers differing from them, which may be feen at feuerall times and m feuerall places: & 
befides this glory ofvariety in colors that thefe flowers haue,they carry fo ftately & dc- 
lightfull a forme, & do abide fo long in their brauery (endunng aboue three whole mo- 
neths from the firft vnto the laft) that there is no Lady or Gentlewoman of any worth 
that is not caught with this delight, or not delighted with thefe flowers. The Anemo- 
neslikewifeor Windeflowersare fo full of variety and fo damty , fo plcafantand fo 
dcliPhtfome flowers, that the fight of them doth enforce an carneft longing defire m the 
mindeofany one to be a poffeffour offomeofthem at the Icaft : For wrthout all doubr, 
this one kinde of flower , fo variable in colours, fo differing in forme (being almoft as 
many forts of them double as fingle) fo plentiful in bearing flowers , and fo durable in 
lading, and alfo fo eafie both to preferue and toencreafe, is of it felfe alone almoft fuf- 
ficicnt to furnifh a garden with their flowers for almoft halfe the yeare , as Ifhall ihew 
you in a fit and conuenient place. The Beares cares or French Cowflips mult not want 
their defemed commendations, feeing that their flowers, being many let together 
vpon a ftalke , doe feerae euery one of them to bee a Nofegay alone of it (cite : and 
befides the many differing colours that are to be feene in them, as white, ycllow,bium ? 
purple, red, tawney , murrey, haire colour, &c . which encreafemuch delight in a 
forts of the Gentry of the Land, they are not ynfutnifhed with a pretty * wcct< ^^G 
