2 $ 8 The (jar den of pleafant Flowers. 
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point then any where elfe,and ['mailer alio at theferting to of the (hike, where it com- 
patTeth it about : the flowers are fometimes very thicke and double (breaking out of a 
fcaly clammy greene head) com pofed of many rowesof leaues, fetfoclofe together 
one within another, that no middle thrume can bee feene, and lomctimes leiTc double, 
hauingafmallbrowne fpot of athrume in the middle : and fometimes but of twoor 
three rowes of leaues, with a large browne thrume in the middle; euery one where- 
of is fomewhat broader at the point, and nicked into two or three corners, of an ex- 
cellent faire deepe gold yellow colour in fome, and paler in others, and of a pretty 
ftrong and refinous fweete fenr : after the flowers are part, there fucceede heads of 
crookedfeede, turning inward, theoutermoftbiggeft, andtheinnermoftlcaft : the 
rooteis white, and fpreadeth in the ground, and in fome places will abideafterthe 
feeding, but for the moft part perifhech, and rifeth againe of his owne feede. Some- 
times this Marigold doth degenerate, and bcareth many fmall flowers vponfliorc 
flalkes, comparing chemiddle flower: but this happeneth but feldome, andtbere- 
foreaccounted but lufns nature, a play of nature, which (lie worketh in diuers other 
plants befides. 
2. CdinHuU Jimpltx. The angle Marigold. 
There is no differencebetweene this and the former, but that the flowers are Angle, 
conflftingof oncroweof leaues, of the fame colour; eyther paler or deeper yellow, 
ftanding about a great browne thrumme in the middle : the feed likewife is alike, but 
for the moft part greater then in the double kindes. 
The Place. 
Our Gardens are the chiefe places for the double flowers to grow in ■ for 
weknownotof anyother naturali place : but the Angle kinde hath beens 
found wilde injSpaine, from whence I receiued feede, gathered by Guil- 
laume Boel, in his time a very curious, and cunning fearcher of Amples. 
The Time. 
They flower all the Summer long, and fometimes euen in winter, if it be 
milde, and chiefly at the beginning of thofe raonethes, as it is thought. 
TheNames. 
They arc called Cdth* of diuers, and taken tebethat Ca//^»,wherofboth 
Virgil and Columella haue written. Others doe call them CdenddtfJ the 
Kalendes, that is the Erft day of themohthes, wherein they are thought 
chiefly to flower ; and thereupon the Italians call them, Fieri di ognimtfe^ 
that is, The Flowers of eucry moneth : We cal them in Englilh generally, 
eyther Golds, or Marigolds. 
TheVertues. 
The herbe and flowers are of great vfe with vs among other pot-herbesj 
and the flowers eyther greene or dryed,are often vfed in poflets, broths, anti 
drinkes, as a comforter of the heart and Ipirits, and to expel any malignanc 
or peftilenrial quality, gathered necre thereunto.The Syrupeand Conferite 
made of the frefh flowers,are vfed for the fame purpofes to good ejfedf. 
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