Flora: seu, de florum cultura. Or, a complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist / In III books. [Ceres. The second book.-Pomona. The third book] By John Rea.

John Rea

Date:: 1676

Credit: Flora: seu, de florum cultura. Or, a complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist / In III books. [Ceres. The second book.-Pomona. The third book] By John Rea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$aaainft ’the other, and at each joynt contrary tp other ; at the ends of the branches come forth'divers flowers, funding on feyeral fppt-ftalks, wch m a hofe like thofe of the common white Jafmine^ containing lair double flowers’ confifting of two, and fometimes three rows of round-pointed white leaves, each row containing five or fix leaves: the middle of the flower is hollow, and fomething yellow, of a ftrpngfweet fcent,|ilje unto tha?: of Orenge flowers. > \ Syringa laciniatis foliis^five Fcy fifnm* nriiQ him Swinga with cut oxPerftan cpmefli up wUb ninr * ny fmall woody branches, finely decked with dairrty p‘eet} leaves, which are Imall, long^ cut in, and divided almofc to the u?fd§e fip, fome into three (mail leaves on a fide, and a larger at the point, others into two, ai^ fome have but one on each fide, and that bigger at the end. All thefe va^ rieties are commonly to be (een in the leaves of this fine Plants at the end of the branches come forth the flowers, many together, in faftiion like unto tfipfe of the ordinary blue Syringi^^ or but fnwlbjT, ^d of a fin^^ pur- plifh blue colour, and better fcent. . . Okajier exotkus* TUeflrange wild Olive, ovTree of Paradife, is a'fweet and beautiful Plant, ^ and, though a great ftranger, is contented with our homely entertain¬ ment : it rifeth up with woody fhoots, ofa dark yellowifii colout, fet with long narrow whidlh green leaves, be^ing ategthe bran^es divers fmall flowers, ofaereeniih yellow c»lpur^wlii<3i pamtal Comtrey,biuld- dom with us) are fucceeded by green berries, like mto which, when they are rVs'will be ofa reddiflhcolpur; ,the whole Plant, ^ well leaves as flowers, is of aTwed and pieafant feent. mifjwt of Ferrari^- ^ Cytifns Maranthe, HOrned-tree Trifoile rifeth four or five foot high, the body feldom bigger thana mans thumb, covered with a whitiCh b^rk, and thebxanches more white 5 the leaves ftand th^ee m^ete, leflTer, render, and whiter, then thoie of the ordinary Lahurnunn rtheflowers are like thofe of . ofa gold yeUoW colour, which, mU^y., co^me forth toee or four toge¬ ther at the ends of the branches^ fucceededby crooked %t thm Cods, like Horns or Half-moons, fl om whence called by the additions ot CorntculatHS and Lunam:, it is a tender Plant, ufiially fet in Cafes, and houfed with Greens in Winter, not to be increafed by Seeds Or Layers, but by taking ott fome new;Slip6 in jfettiii^them in the'fliade, and keeping the, earth .n]piif |)yfre<|u9nt,but gentfc^atering?* / ; • , ^ ^ s; Alt bee a fruijcojfa, HrHh MaUow bath woody branches, covered with;* whitift bark, I with ‘foit wooUy whitilh green leaves,, in fefliiw bke tl^ ot the Ribes or CurrmfrKi the -flowers are large, and like t^ofe of aifingle HoUy hoikh in fome‘, of a deep reddifti,or.viplet--put|>le5 an others, paler or bgh-- ter' with the bottom of a deeper purple, running into the leaves in fmall veins: and there is another that hath ftelher green leaves, and white$