T be (jar den of pUaJant flowers. 
The Place. 
Thefe plants grow naturally inthc Weftlndies, where there is a perpe- 
tuali fummer, or at the lead no cold frofty winters, from whencethefecde 
hath been fent into thefe parts of Europe, and are difperfed into euery 
garden almoft of note. 
ThcTirae. 
Thefe plants flower from the end of Iuly fometimes, or Auguft, vatil] 
the frofts,and cold ayres of the euenings in O&ober, pull them down, and 
in the meane time the feed is ripe. 
TheNames. 
Wee haue not receiued thefeedesof this plant vnder any other name, 
then Mir Mi* Peruri* n*, or Admit *btltspl*nt*. In English wee call them, 
Themeruaile of Peru, or the meruaileof the world : yet fome Authors 
haue called it Gelfemimtm, or I*J, minim rubrum. O' I*die(m : aodBauhiuus 
StUmtm Mrxicctmtm fi*re mtgm. 
TheVertues. 
We haue not lenowae any vfe hereof in Phy ficke. 
Chat. X C I. 
M*U*. Mallowcs. 
O Pthe lindredof Mallowcs there are a great number, fome of thegardens, o- 
. hers wilde, fome with Angle flowers, others with double, fome with whole 
leaucs, others with cut or diuided : to entreate of them all is not ray purpofc, 
nor the fcope of this worke, butonelyof fuchwhofeflowers,hauingbeautieandre- 
fpnft, are fit to furnilh this garden, as ornaments thereunto. And fitftof thofcfingle 
kindes, whofe flowerscome neereft vnto the fafliion of the former Bell-flowers, and 
after to the double ones, which for their braucry, are entertained euery whete into c- 
ucry Countrcy womans garden. 
I . M*l iu Hifptmca flore cornet tmplt. 
The Spaniih blulli Mallow. 
The Spanilh Mallow is in forme and manner of growing, very like vnto our com- 
mon fielde Mallow, hauing vpright ftalkes two or three foote high,fpread into diuers 
branches, andfrorathebottometothetoppe, befet with round lcaues, like vnto our 
Mallowes, butfomewhatfmaller, rounder, and leflediuidcd, yet larger below then 
abouc : the flowers arc plentifully growing vpon the fmall branches, folding or wri- 
thingtheir leaucs one about another before they becblowne, and being open confift 
of fiuc leaucs, with a long forked clapper therein,of the fame colour with the flower : 
the chiefeft difference from the common confifteth in this, thattheleauesof thefe 
flowers are longer, and more wide open at the brirames (almoft like a Bell- flower) 
and of a faire blufh or light carnation colour, doling at night, and opening all the 
day : after the flowers are part, there come fuch I ike round heads, with fmall black* 
feede, like vnto the common kinde.but forftewhat fmallerjthe roote is fmall and long, 
and periiheth euery yearc. 
*. Alce* vulgoris flore cornet. Vervaine Mallow with blufli flowers. 
There is a Mallow that hath logg ftalkes, and flowers like vnto the common|wilde 
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