Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

43.

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Herbes, branches, and flowers, for windowes and pots.

Baies,[E236] sowe or set in plants in Januarie.

Batchelers buttons.[E237]

Botles, blew, red, and tawnie.

Collembines.[E238].

Campions.

Cousleps.[1]

Daffadondillies.[E239]

Eglantine,[E240] or swéet brier.

Fetherfew.[E241]

Flower armor[2][E242] sowe in May.

Flower de luce.[E243]

Flower gentle,[E244] white and red.

Flower nice.

Gileflowers,[E245] red white and carnations, set in spring, and at Haruest in pots, pailes or tubs, or for sommer in beds.

Holiokes,[E246] red, white and carnations.

Indian eie,[E247] sowe in May, or set in slips in March.

Lauender of all sorts.

Larkes foot.

Laus tibi.[E248]

Lillium cum valium.[3][E249]

Lillies, red and white, sowe or set in March and September.

Marigolds double.

Nigella Romana.[E250]

Pauncies or hartesease.[E251]

Paggles, gréene and yelow.

Pinkes of all sorts.

Quéenes gilleflowers.

Rosemarie.

Roses of all sorts.

Snag dragons.[4]

Sops in wine.[E252]

Swéete Williams.[E253]

Swéete Johns.[E254]

Star of Bethelem.

Star of Jerusalem.[E255]

Stocke gilleflowers of all sorts.

Tuft gilleflowers.[E256]

Veluet flowers,[E257] or french Marigolds.

Violets, yellow and white.

Wall gilleflowers of all sorts.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · "Baies," Bays, from French baie, which is formed from Lat. bacca = a berry. In old writers bay is used for a berry generally, as "the bayes Note 2 · "Bachelor's Buttons." So called, according to Johnson's Gerarde, p. 472, "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons anciently worn Note 3 · "Columbine," called Colourbine in Lincoln, Aquilegia vulgaris, used for making stuffed chine. "There are many sorts of Colombines, as well d Note 4 · Omitted in 1577.Note 5 · "Daffadowndilly, Daffodilly, Affodilly, and Daffodil, Lat. asphodelus, from which was formed Affodilly, the name of it in all the older writ Note 6 · "Eglantine," a word of doubtful origin. Chaucer writes it eglatere and eglentere. Fr. aiglantier, Prov. aiglentina = wild rose. Diez derives Note 7 · Feverfew (Pyrethrum parthenium), a genus of Composite plants, common in our gardens, and deriving its name from having long been employed as Note 8 · armour. 1577; amour. 1614.Note 9 · "Flower armor," evidently the Floramor, Fr. fleur d'amour, from a misconception of its Latin name Amaranthus, as though a compound of Amor, Note 10 · "Flower de luce," the flos deliciarum of the Middle Ages. Ducange, quoting from the history of the Harcourts, says:—"Thomas, Dux Exoniæ habe Note 11 · According to Lyte the Flower Gentle is identical with the Floramor (see above). Various species of Amaranthus, including the Flower amor (43 Note 12 · "Gilliflower, formerly spelt gyllofer and gilofre with the o long, from Fr. giroflée, ltal. garofalo, in Douglas's Virgil jereflouris, words Note 13 · "Holiokes," in Huloet's Dict. Holy Hoke. Wedgwood (Etym. Dict.) derives it from A.S. hoc, Welsh hocys = a mallow, and says that it obtained Note 14 · "Indian Eie." This was probably a Dianthus of some kind (French œillet), the same perhaps which is now grown in our gardens as Indian or Chi Note 15 · Laus tibi, "a narcissus with white flowers. It groweth plenteously in my Lorde's garden in Syon and it is called of divers White Laus tibi."Note 16 · convallium. 1617 Note 17 · "Lillium cum vallium," the "Lily of the Valley," in Lyte Lyllie Conuall, and also termed May Blossoms, May Lyllies, and Lyryconfancy.Note 18 · "Nigella Romana." The Nigella Damascena, Linn., a favourite old-fashioned garden annual, still to be met with in gardens under the names of Note 19 · "Pansy," or Paunce, Fr. pensée, thought. According to Dr. Johnson the name is derived from Lat. panacea, but there is no evidence of the pla Note 20 · Snap dragons. 1577.Note 21 · "Sops-in-Wine," the Clove Gilliflower, Dianthus caryophyllus, L., so called from the flowers being used to flavour wine or ale. Cf. Chaucer'Note 22 · "Sweete Williams,"from Fr. œillet, Lat. ocellus, a little eye, corrupted to Willy, and thence to William, "in reference, perhaps, to a popul Note 23 · "Sweete Johns." Apparently a variety of Sweet William. See Parkinson's "Paradisus," pp. 319, 321, for descriptions and figures: "The chiefe Note 24 · "Star of Jerusalem." This is usually Tragopogon pratensis, L., as in Gerard, p. 736, but some other plant is likely to be meant here.—Note b Note 25 · "Tuft gilleflowers." Probably some low-growing Dianthus, such as that figured as "Matted Pinkes" by Parkinson (Paradisus, p. 315).—Note by M Note 26 · "Veluet flowers," according to Dr. Prior, the "love-lies-bleeding," Amaranthus caudatus, Linn., from its crimson velvety tassels; according

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