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Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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Hollowne : and liJll: f ringing it , rife: up to be
three or fair feet high, [eing great? round, and ofa
pttrplijh color at the bottom, but green .ohove, [refer
from them? to the middle thereof, with many long
and broad green Leaver, very like to the Leave: of
our Common white Lilly but .hnnething jhorter and
narrower, eonfttjedly Willa!“ Order, and from the
nliddle upward: it t: hare or naked without Leavee,
for a certain jpaee ; and then it hear: four, fix or
ten Home”, more or 1e :, aetording to the Age of
the Root, and the Ferttltt of the Earth where it
grow. The End: at the [i appearing are whitifh,
[landing upright among a Bah; or Tnft of green
Leave:, [mailer than thtfe below, and [landing above
the Flower: ; after a while they turn t etnfelver, and
hang downwardr, eve one apart it: own Foot-jialk,
round about the great tent or Stalk, fornetirne: of an
even depth, and ornetinte': again one lower or higher
than another, with flower: are along]? in Form like
to my? if an ordina Lilly, btttjontewhat leg?" and
elder, eonh ing of ix Leaver, 0 an Orange eolor,
jiriped wit par lifh Line: and einr, - which add a ,1
great Grace an Beauty to the Flower:. At the hot-
torn of. the Homer: next unto the Stalk, every Lea]
thereof bar on the outfde a certain Bunch or Erni-
nenee flicking forth, of a dark purplz'h) eolor‘; and
on the injide there lie: in thofe hollow unehetl plow,
eertairt elear drop: if Water, like nnto Pearl:, of a ve-
eyfweetiTajie,” aim?! like to Sugar or lioney: In
the midji of each lower tr, a long white Stile or
Pointel, orked or divided at the end, andfx white
Chive: tip: with yellowtfh Pendent:,',jianding do]:
about it): ‘after the Flower: are poll, txfgttareSeed-
1002]: up ear,
of welte on t edge:, yetfeerntng hut threefguare,
heeanhe eaeh couple 0hr tho e welted edge: are joined
elo er to ether. In t efe otlror Vefel: are eontain-
e hroa , flat and thin Seeds, (hr a pale brownilh co-
lor, like unto other Lillres, .. at ottteb greater and
thicker alfo. ‘The Stalk of Ihnj Plant doef’hnnetirne:
grow anI, two, three or four Finger: hroa , and then
bear: ma more Flowerr, but then generally they are
fmaller t on when it hear: roundStalkr. Sometime:
it happen: thatthe Stalk 1': divided at the top, tarry-
ing two or three Tuft: of green Leaver, without arty
Home: on them .- and hornetirne: likewife it bear:
two or three Head: or Crownrof Flower: (at we have
before hinted at feft. 2. about) upon one Stalk, thi:
i: not often fern, hut when it bop enr, it i: tneerly
aeeidental. ’ The whole Plant, an every fart there-
, Root:, Leave: and Flower: do frnel bfornewhal
rang, rnttrh like to the Seat! ofa Fox; to ieh, i a-
ny do but come near it, theyeannot ebttfe hut Inell
rt. , . ,
IV. The Plaee:. This Plant was firIl brought
from Grtgantinople into. our Country among other
bulbous cots, and being made Denizon: V in our
Glrdenr, they are now become Natives of our
d, where they thrive admirably well. - .
' V. The Timer. They flower in April, and fome-
times in Illorth, if the Weather is mild; and the
Heads with Seed are ripe in the end of May and-in
3101:. It is quick in its Growth, but it fpringsnot
out of the Ground till the end of; Februaq orlbe-
Inning of March. . ’
V1. The Qualitier,Speeijieation,Pre aratron:,Vir-
lite: and Ufer, are the fame with tho e‘of the White
and Orange-tawny ljlly, treated of in fome of the
foHowing Chapters, to which you are referred.
VII. Olgferv. 1., To ohtain the true eolor of the
Flower: of thi: noble Plant .- .Take Sap-berries, and
19,? them in Ileep in a proportional quantity of fair
l ater for two hours, and mix a little Saffron in
Illnlnfiriion, and it will give the fail color, to
- He or illumine the Flower withal.ex ,
Kla’nding upright, winged (u it were, ’
,e
. 2 53
VIII. Ohfero. 2. As in the borrom of each of-
theiE Bells, there is placed Ex drops ofmoll pure
clear [hitting Warer, (west in Talie, like to Sugar,
refemblingin Shew fair Oriental Pearls; there drops,
if you take them army, new and frail) drops will
immediately come in their places again. But if
they ma be fuli'ered to continue in the Flower,
they wil never fall away, no, tho’ you Ihike the
Plant till it is broken.
c H A P. CLXXVIII.
0f CUCUMBER Garden.
I. HE Nani“. It is Gillcd in Arahiek, Chathe
U Chethete: in Greek, 21m ,7 .99: in Ld‘
tin, Cuennti: U Crammer Sativtt: : in ”nglifh, Gar-
en Cttearnher. ,
II. The Kindr. Of thefe we make four feveral
forts, viz. I. Cneurni: vel Gtenmer vulgarity The
Common Garden Cucumber. 2. Cuettrni:Anginutx:,
The long Snake-like or Serpentine Cucumber. 3.
Growth vel Cnewner Pyriforntir, Pear-fthioned Cu-
cumber. 4, Cnewtti: vel Crammer Hijpanirttr, The
Spanilh Cucumber. .
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III. The Defcriprions. The jirji ha: aRoot which
i: long and white, with diver: l‘ibrer. adjoining to it,
from whence-fpring forth motor trailing rough green
Branehee, lying on the Ground -, all along whereof
grow feveral Leaver, which are rough, broad, une-
ven at the edges, and ointed at the end:, with long
crooked twijiing Ten rel: or Cltjperr, tontin forth
at the jizrne faint with the Leaf, but on the at Jerjide
thereto]? Between the Stalk: and the Leave:, a! the
faint:, tome forth flower: fweralh-, each fiMdmg
on a jhort Footjialk, opening it fell 171101511" 14‘4”“,
of a ”[1me color-5 a, ,b; [70110])! of which grt‘tft‘l
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