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:2 ‘The other golden floiire ofl?eru is like the foriner,fauing that it is altogethetlowenand thﬁ‘ leaues mi)r't: jaggt:-dyand yery few in number. ' b A i male noure or thC.SL1I1()ltl1e fmaller fort hath a_ thicke root,hard, and of a woody {Uh ‘ i.l;£}.i1CC’.:‘.171tl3 many threddy firings anexed. thereto, from which rifeth vp a gray or rulfet ﬂallc I0! 5 heigltit of or {iii eubirs,ol the bignelfe of ones arme,whereupon are let great broad leaues With long it.l('Iilli~‘21il{33VCi"y fmgill or ealie to breal<e,of an ouerworne green colour ,{har pointed,&' Wm‘ ,t cut or l.iaeE<t a‘nout the edges like a faw : the Home groweth at the top of the ltalkgborderf ::ii,=r:«i:t with a. pale of yellow leaues : the thrurnmed middle part is blacker than that of the 13 i"?tzlei'ii>eii : the whole ﬂoure is compalfed about likewife with diuers fuch ru lfet leaues as they 3“? tlia: grow lowcrtpon the li.alks,but leffcr and narrower. The plant and euery part thereof fmfills of rii:pe:itine,ai2d the ﬂoiire yeeldeth forth moi’: cleare turpentine, as my felfe haue noted dille“ The feed is alfo long and blacl«:e,with certain lines or firakes of white running alonglli the 1-game : the root and euery part thereof perilheth when it hath perfeéted his feed. 2

4: The lem_;il_e or Marigold Sun.floure hath a thicke and wooddy root, from which rifetli VP .{ﬂ%:ait ~l’t:Cl‘t‘.'t druid;-rig it felfe into one or more branches, fer with fmooth leaues lharpe pointc V;

elgl.itl}I indented about the edges. The ﬂoures grow at the top of the branches, of a feint y€“° coiounthe middle part is of a deeper yellow tending to blackneﬂ‘e,of the forme and ﬂiape Ola 5”’ gle Marigold,wIieretipon I haue named it the Sun Marig0ld.The feed as yet I hang not obfexuc - Ill The Piece. ,

Thefe plants grow ofthemfelues without letting or fowing,in Peru,and in diuers other prawn‘ ties of Ameyicaﬁoni whence the feeds haue beene brought into thefe parts of Europ. There ha‘ bin feen in spam and other hot regions a plant fowne and nourifhed vp from feed,to attaine to the height of 2 4 foot in one yeare.

1]’ The Time.

The feed muli be fet or fowne in the beginning of April,if the weather be temperat,in the moi’; v

fertill ground that may be,and where the Sun hath moli power the whole day. qr Tee Names. The ﬂour of the Sun is called in Latine Flor Sol»':,f.or that fome haue reported it to turn with ‘he

Sun,which I could neuer obferue,although .1 haue indeauored to ﬁnde out the truth of it : but 1 Ta‘ .

ther thinke it was fo called becaufe it refembles the radiant beams of the Sunne,whe1-eupon {Owe

haue called it Carma Solrgand SolIm1z'4nm,the Indian Sunne-floure :others,Cl;ryf2mtl:cmz4m 1’¢’”""’4‘

mm;,or the Golden ﬂoure of Peru : in Englifh,the ﬂoure of the Sun,or the Sumﬂoure. {[ The Temperamre. They are thought to be hot and dry of Complexion, _ _ GI The Vemm. ‘

There hath not any thing bin let down either of the antient or later writers concerning the “P W€_S of thefe 'plants,notwithl’canding we haue found by triall, that the buds bdfore they be ﬂ0”,“’ boiled and eaten with butter, vineger, and pepper, after the manner of Artichokes are exceedmg pleafant meagfurpalling the Artichoke far in procuring bodily luf’t. , \ I

The fame buds with the {talks neere vnto the top(the hairineﬁe being taken away)broiled l/PO“ 3 gl'1¢.l"0“sand after eaten with oile,vineger,and pepper,haue the like propertie.

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“N e may wel by the Englii’h_name of this plant perceiue,that thofe that vulgarly glue naIT_‘9s to plants,haue little either iudgement or knowledge of them : for this plant bath 110 (‘mil 1‘ rudejn1e3fe,ﬁalke,1'00t,0r manner of growing,with an Artichoke but onl a little Iil<€{“’ ‘f of taﬂe in the drelled root; neither came it from Ierufalem,or out of Aﬁa,bLIcy0ut of America -

whence F462»: Colmmm one Of the ﬁrlt fetters of it forth, fitly names it g/4/fer Pemrvizmw f”M”f”' and Flo: Salia Fzzﬁ7eﬂ4m¢5,l3‘€C&llfC it fo much refembles the Fla: Solis and for that he ﬁrli obferult; -. . , , 3 7 1» Itgrowmg, "1 F110 garden Of Cardinal F47'7‘€ﬁM,Wll0 had procured roots: thereof from the VV 9“ it dies. Pe/lztmua calleth this fleliotroyzzﬂm Irzdirmn mécrofzmz - and B4t'}72'7i;a¢ in his Prodromw fetrsne . . 3 ’ ‘ . ‘ i forth by the name ofczngyftzrzt/lzzrzuras lmﬁzlztrm Bmﬁ:’.ia;mm 5 but in his Pimx he hath it by thﬁm of

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F(::el_zzz:¢rbemywz Iadimm tm56i'ofwm.AlfOot1r countrym_an_M’ Ifar/lrinfan hath exaétly deliuered the that ﬁle of this by the name of Bamztzra a'e.C;m4d4,Engl1'fhlng it Potatoes of Canada: now al thefe cm gut: written and mentionedit bring it from America, but. from far dilferent places, as from u ’. mﬁfliand Canada: but this is not much materiall,feeing it.now growes fo well and plenti. f y m [0 many places of England. I will therefore deliuer you the hiﬂorie as I haue receiued it

foal’; ‘RY 6ft mentioned friend M‘ Gooafycr,who,as you may fee by the date,tooke it prefently vpoii r arriuall into England. .

T T ‘Tbs De m" tom }:'i3t?!]:3lz3' Pynz:7zia’t:l;a3'.‘ ‘ {I I P 1 ,

Ierufalem Artichoke. 1-‘lorfolzk Pyramidalzk, pama ﬂare, trréeraﬁ mé dice Heliotropium Imlimm quorzmdzim. A

‘ His wonderfull encreaﬁng plant hath a growing vp from one root,one,fomtimes two, three, or more round greene rough hairy Pcraked (talks, commonly about twelue foot high,fomtimes {ixteene foot or higheigas big as a childes arme, full of white fpoﬂgﬁous pith within. The leaues grow allalongli the ﬁalkes out of order, of a light greene colour, r0ugh, {harpe pointed, about 8 inches broadr and ten or eleuen inches long,deepl y notched or indented about the edges , very like the leaues of the common Flo: fob’; Permmw, but nothing crumpled,and not fo broad:the {talks diuide themfelues into many long branches euen from the roots to their very tops,bearing leaues fmaller and fmaller towards the tops,’ making the her-be appear like a little tree,nar-_) tower and ﬂenderer toward the tOp,:in faﬂiiori of a Pteeplc or pyramide. The ﬂoures with vs grow onely at the tops of the ftalltsand bran-_p ches , like thofe of the faid Flosjblis , but no bigger than our commofl 51181": Marigold; ‘conlifting of twelue or thirteen Pctaked {harpe pointed bright yellow bordering l:eau;es,gyow.:_ ing forth of a fcaly: {mall hairy head , with :i. fmall yellow thrummy matter within. Thefe ﬂoures by reafon of their late ﬂouting, which is commonly two or three weekes after Mi- ehaelmafi'e,neuer bring their feed to pcrfe&i— on sand it maketh {hew of abiindariceoffmal eads neere the tops of the {rallies and bran,-;, _ , ehes, forth of the boforns of the 1eaues,which Pm and ﬂoure with vs, by reafon they are deitroyed with the froﬁs, which otherwife it fee-i

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rail‘ _ r m g ?.h°a“mz‘:§ VP the Earth about? tbetlliaﬂd fometimes appearing aboue the earth, producing. llicreafe of one ro?or,thirty,forty,or fifty in number,’or more, making in allvfually about: 1=m““Y.t1mes neere halfe a bu{hell,if the foile be good . Thefe tuberous roots are of a red-

times asOuirow1th°“Va0f a foft white fubftancewithimbunched or bumped out ni2!_ﬁY.W‘“°°’= (Om? the next b as a mans fiPt,or not fo bi ,with ‘white? nofes or peakes where they W11 {PTOW 01' grow

for: fmayﬁare. The flralkes bowed downe, and fome part of them COUCYCCI oucr With ﬁfth, fend

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fhedafllll of hairy threds euen from the vpper part of the earth,fpreading;far abroad:

ed to hich from the main root grow forth many tuberous roots,eluf’tring together, fomtimeS t » ‘ '

at ._ _ ieh they were nourilhed vtterly rot anti" erifh away; and will begin to fpﬁng VP again the befglllﬁlngiof Mayfeldome fooner. P

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d be a goodly fpeétacle. The lhtlke feuds forth many {mall creeping roots,whereby it‘

e great root it felfe, fometimesgrowing on long ﬁrings a foot or more from the root,“

°'°°PiI1g thi-eddy roots,and alfo tuberous roots like the former,_which I haue found by mots by W1; Thefe tuberous roots will abide aliue in the earth all VViﬂ‘.¢‘3.;'h°F‘%h the ﬁalkes and