r lhe (jar den of pie a/ ant Flowers. 
ned whitifh, or rather brownifh yellow feede, flat and foraewhat round , like vnto die 
feedes ofHollyhocke : the rootc is ftringie , and quickly perifheth ; for it will hardly 
endure in our cold Country to giue flowers, much lefle feede, vnlefle (.as I faid before) 
it happen in a kindly yeare, and be well planted and tended. 
6. Bimia feu AL a The Mallow of Egypt. 
This Mallow is alfo as tender to nourle vp as the laft , hauing the lower lcaues broad 
like a Marfh Mallow, and of a frefh grecne colour $ but thofe that growe vpon the 
ftalkc,and vptothetoppe, arp <diuidcd into fiuc parts or points , but arc not cut into 
the middle ribbe, like the former Thorney Mallow, yet dented about the edges like 
vnto them: the flowers growe at thefettingto of theleaues, like vnto a Mallow for 
forme, but of a whitifh colour ■ after which come long flue fquare pointed pods, with 
hard (hels, wherein are contained round blackifh gray feede, as bigge as a Vetch or 
bigger : the roote perilheth quickly with vs, euen with the firft frofts. 
7 . frutex fltrc ulhovcl purpura. 
Shrubbe Mallow with a white or purple flower. 
Thereare diuers forts of fhrubbe Mallowes, whereof fome that haue their ftemmes 
or ftalkes lefle wooddy, dye downe to the ground euery yeare , and others that abide 
alwayes, aremore wooddy: Of the former forts I intend not to fpeake,referring them 
to a fitter place; and of the other , I will onely giue you the knowledge of one or two 
in this place , although I doe acknowledge their fitted place had been to be among the 
Ihrubbes; but bccaufe they arc Mallowes, l pray let them paffe with the reft of their 
kindred, andtheir deferiptions in this manner: Thefe wooddy kindes offhrubMal- 
lowcs h3ue fomewhat large, long, and diuided leaues, of a whitidi greene colour, fofc 
alfo, and as it were woolly in handling,fet difperfedly on the whitifh hard or wooddy 
ftalkes : their flowers are large, like vnto a finglc Rofe or Hollyhocke, in the one being 
white with purple fpots in the bottome; in the other either of a deepe red colour, or 
elfe of a paler purple, with a deeper bottome, and with veines running in euery leafes 
they are fomewhat tender, and would not be buffered to be vneouered in the Winter 
time, or yet abroad in the Garden, but kept in a large pot or tubbe, in the houfe or in a 
warme cellar, if you would haue them to thriuc. 
$, Miluuhortenps rofeu [implex & multiplex eHuerforum colorum. 
Hollibockesfingleand double of feucrall colours. 
I (hall not neede to make many deferiptions of Hollihockes , in regard the greateft 
difference confifteth in the flowers, which are in fome fingle, in fome double, in fome 
ofone colour, and in others of other colours : for the lowed lcaues of Hollihockes are 
allround, and fomewhat large, with many corners, but not cut in or diuided, foft in 
handling; but thofe that growe vp higher arc much more diuided into many corners : 
the ftalkes fometimes growe like a tree, at the leaft higher then any man , with diuers 
fuch diuided leaues on them, and flowers from the middle to the toppe , where they 
ftand as it were a long fpike of leaues and buds for flowers together : the flowers are of 
diuers colours , both fingle and double, as pure white, and pale blufb, almoftlikc 
a white, and more blufli, frefh and liuely, of a Rofe colour , Scarlet , and a deeper red 
like a crimfon, and of a darke red like blacke bloud; thefe arc the moft efpeciall colours 
both of fingle and double flowers that I haue feene: the fingle flowers confift of flue 
broad and round leaues, (landing round like vnto fingle Roles, with a middle long 
ftile, and fome chiues aboue them : the double flowers are like vnto double Rofes,very 
thicke, fo that no ftile or vmbone is feene in the middle, and the outermoft roweof 
leaues in the flowers are largeft, the innermoft being (mailer and thicke fet together : 
after the flowers are pad , there come vp as well in the double as (ingle , flat round 
heads, like flat cakes, round about the bottomes whereof grow e flat whitifli feede : the 
roote is long and great at the head , white and tough , like the rootc of the common 
Mallowes, but greater, and will reafonably well abide the Winter. 
