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¥ he (jar den of plea) ant Flowers. 
for the cold windes will (as I vndcrftand) greatly moled it : and therefore mud as 
charily be kept as Orenge trees with vs, it wee will haue it to abide. 
The Place. 
Thcfirft sroweth in Arabia fas Matthiolus thinketh, that had it from 
Condantinople.) We haue it plentifully in our Gardens. Thefecondand 
third are drangers with vs as yet. The fourth is as frequent as the fird,or ra- 
ther more, but his originali is not knowne. The lad hath his originali from 
Arabia, as his name importeth. 
The Time. 
The firft,fecond,and third flower in Aprill,thc other two not vntill May. 
The Names. 
The fird is called of Matthiolus Lilac , and by that name is mod vfually 
called in all parts. It is alfo called Seringa ctrulea, becaufe it commeth nea- 
red vnto thofe woods, which for their pithy fubdance, were made hollow 
into pipes. It is called of all inEnglilh, The blew Pipe tree. Itfecmeth 
likely, that Petrus Bellonius in his third Bookeand fiftieth Chapter of his 
obferuations (making mention of a fhrubbe that the Turkes haue, with Iuie 
leaues alwaies greene , bearing blew or violet coloured flowers on a long 
ftalke, ofthebigneffeandfalhionofaFoxetaile, and thereupon called in 
their language a Foxe taile) doth vnderdand this plant here exprdfed. The 
certainty whereof might eafily be knowne, if any of our Merchants there 
refidiog, would but call for fuch a flirubbe, by the name of a Foxe taile in 
the Turkidi tongue, and take caretofcndayoungroote,inafinall tubbeor 
basket with earth by Sea, vnto vs here at London, which would be perfor- 
med with a very little paines and cod. Thefecondand third, as kindes 
thereof, hauethcirnamcsinthcirtitlcs. The fourth is called by Clufius 
and others. Frutex Ctronariw, fomc doe call it Lilac flere albe, but that name 
is not proper, in that it doth confound both kindes together. Lobel calleth 
it Syringa Italic a. It is now generally called of all Syringe alba , that is in 
Englifh, The white Pipe tree. Some would haue it to bee Oflryt of Tnco- 
phraflus, but Clufius hath fufficiently cleared that doubt. Of others Ligu- 
lirum Orientale, which it cannot be neither i for the Cyprus of Plinie is Dio- 
fcorides his Liguflrum, which may be called Orient ale ,in that it is mod pro- 
per to the Eadcrne Countries, and is very fweete, whole [cede is likevnto 
Coriander feede. The laflis called by diuers Syringe Arabia florcalbedu- 
plici, as mod fitly agreeing thereunto. Of Bafilius Beflerus that fer forth the 
greatbookeof the Bilhop of Eydot in Germany his Garden , Syringa Ita- 
lica flore albo plene, becaufe, as itis likely , hee had it from Italy. It is very 
likely, that Profper Alpinus in his booke of Egyptian plants, doth meane 
this plant, which hee there calleth Sambach, fine uf minum Arabicum. Mat- 
thaus Caccini of Florence in his letter to Clufius entituleth it Syringa Ara- 
bica, flue Isfmioum Arabicum, flue lafminum ex Gine , whereby hee declarcth 
that it may not vnfitly be referred to either of them both. We may call it in 
Englifti as it is in the title. The double white Pipe tree. 
ThcVertuc*. 
Wehaae no vfeofthefe in Phyficke that I know, although Profpcr Alpi- 
nns faith, the doublcwhite Pipe tree is much vied in Egypt, to help women 
in their trauailesof childbirth. 
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