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The (jar den of plea/ ant Timers. 
flowers (for they arein flower at the fame time) make a delicate Tuflimuflie, as they 
call it,orNofegay,both for fight and fent : After rhe flower is pad, come the feede, 
which are rough or vneuen, round, greeniOi yellow heads, fom.'ttmesbutone, and 
fometimestwoor three (handing together vpon one ftalke, bare or naked of them- 
felues, without any huske, containing a white pulpy kerneil : the rootes are fmall, 
andfpreadingvnder ground, which perilh with the firft frofts, andmuftbefownea 
new eucry yeare ; yet there needeth no bed of horfe-dung for the matter : the naturali 
ground will be fufficient, fo as you defend it alittle from thofe frofts , that may fpoile 
it when it is newly fprung vp, or being yet tender. 
The Place. 
This goodly plant was firfl found in the Weft Indies , and from thence 
fent intoSpiinevntoMonardusand others, from whence all other pans 
hauereceiuedit. It is now very familiar in moft Gardens of any curiofity, 
where it yearly giueth ripe feed, except the yeare be very vnkindly. 
The Time. 
It flowreth fometimes in Iune, but vfually in Iuly (if it be well defended 
and in any good ground) and fo continueth flowring , vntill the cold frofts 
and miftes in the middle or end of Odlober, docchccke the luxurious na- 
ture thereof, and in the meanc timeih.' feedeis ripe, which will quickly fall 
downeon theground, where for the moft part the bed is gathered. 
The Names. 
Some doe reckon this plant among the Clematides or Convolvuli , the 
Clamberers or Bind wee'dcs ; but (as I (aid Jit hath no dafpers, neither doth 
it windeitfelfe : but by reafonofthenumberof hisbranches, that run one 
within another, it may fecmeroclimbevpbya poleorfticke, which yec 
doth but onely clofeit, as hauing fomething whereon to leane or reft his 
branches. Monardus and others call it Flos [angutnem , of the red fpots in 
the flowers, as alfo MaHntrzo de las /nd/as, which is Nafturt'utm inAktm , by 
whichnameitis now generally knowne and called, and wee thereafter in 
Englifli, Indian CrdTcs,yet it may bee called from the forme of the flow- 
ers onely, Yellow Larkes heeles. 
The Vertues. 
The Spaniards and others vfe the leaues hereof in (lead of ordinary Cref- 
fes, becaufe the tafte is fomewhat (harpe agreeing thereunto, but other Phy- 
ficall properties I haue heard of none attributed to it. 
Chap. LII. 
Viola. Violets. 
T He Garden Violets (for the Wilde I leaueto their OWne place) ate fo well 
knowne vnto all, that either keepe a Garden, or hath but once come into it, 
that I fhall(Ithinke) but lofe labour and time to deferibe that which is fo com- 
mon. Yetbecaufeitisnotonelyachoifeflowerofdelight, notwitftftanding thepo- 
pularity, and that I let not pafle any thing without his particular defeription, Imuft 
alfo doefo by this. And hereunto I mud adde that kinde of Violet , which, although 
it want that fmellofthe other, goeth beyond it in variety of dainty colours, called 
VtoUtncolor & flammea, or Harts cafes. 
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