The (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
white, and great, or large, but with vs is neither fo large, blacke, or white- but fome- 
times blackidi or gray lfh. Sonic fort rifeth notvp halfe the height that others doe 
and fome agaifle bcarc but one itemme or ftalke , withafiowerat the toppe thereof- 
and others two or three, or more fmall branches, with euery one his flower at the end’ 
and fome fo full of branches from the very ground almoft, that I haue accounted 
threefcore branches round about the middle ftalke of one plant, the loweft neare two 
yards long, others aboue them a yard and a halfe, or a yard long, with euery one his 
flower thereon ; but all ( mailer then thofe that beare but one or two flowers and lefler 
alfo for the moft part then the flower on the middle ftalke it felfe. The whole plant 
and euery part thereof aboue ground hath aftrongrefinousfent of Turpentine and the 
heads and middle parts of the flowers doe oftentimes (and fometimes the ioynts of 
the ftalke where the leaues ftand) fweat out a moft fine thin & cleare Roffin or Turpen- 
tme,but in fmall quantity, and as it were in drops, in the heate and dry time oft he y ear 
fo like both in colour, fmell, and talk vnto cleare Venice Turpentine , that it cannot 
be knowne from it .- the roote is ftrongly faftened in theground by fome greater roots 
branching out, and a number of fmall firings, which growc- not deepe , but keepe vn- 
der the vpper cruft of the earth, and defircth much moifture, yet dyeth euery yeare 
with the firft frofts, and muft be new fowne in the beginning of the Spring. 1 1 
The Place. 
Their places are fet downe in their titles, the one to come out of Candy 
the other out of Peru, a Prouince in the Weft Indies. 
The Time. 
The firft flowreth in Iune, the other later, as not vntill Auguft,and fome- 
times fo late,that the early frofts taking it,neuer fuffer it to come to ripenefs. 
The Names. 
The firft hath his name in his title. The fecond , befides the names fet 
downe, is called of fome Planta maxima, Pits maximus, Stl Indtanm, but the 
moft vfuall with vs is, Flos Solis : In Englifh, The Sunnc Flower, or Flower 
of the Sunne. 
TheVertues. 
There is no vfe of either in Phyficke with vs , but that fometimes the 
heads ofthc Sunne Flower are dreffed,and eaten as Hartichokes are, and are 
accounted of fome to be good meate,but they are too ftrong for my tafte. 
Chap. LXIII. 
Calendula. Marigolds. 
S Ome haue reckoned vp many forts of Marigolds, I had rather make but two, the 
fingle and the double; for doubtlefle, thofethat bemoftdotible, rifefromthe 
beft feede, which are the middlemoft of the great double, and fome will be lefle 
double, whofe feede is greater then the reft , according to the ground where it grow- 
th ; as alfo thofe that be of a paler colour, doe come of the feed ofthe yellower fort. 
I. Calendula maxima. The great Garden Marigold. 
The Garden Marigold hath round greene ftalkes , branching out from the ground 
into many parts, whereon are fet long flat greene leaues, broader and rounder at the 
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