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A54994	The Garden of Eden, or, An accurate description of all flowers and fruits now growing in England with particular rules how to advance their nature and growth, as well in seeds and herbs, as the secret ordering of trees and plants / by that learned and great observer, Sir Hugh Plat.	Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?; Bellingham, Charles.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2386; ESTC R33966	42,529	183

his congelative part of raine water which he calleth the Vegetable salt of Nature wherein though he observed more then either Varro Columella or any of the ancient Writers in this kind did ever dream of yet doth he come many degrees short of this heavenly mystery Now to give you some taste of that fire which the Philosophers call the Stomach of the Ostrich without which the Philosophers true and perfect Aqua vitae can never be made you must understand that it is an outward fire of Nature which doth not onely keepe your Glasse and the matter therein contained in a true proportionable heat fit for workmanship without the helpe of any ordinary or material fire but it is also an efficient and principal cause by his powerful nature and pearcing quality to stir up alter and exalt that inward fire that is inclosed within the Glasse in his owne proper earth And therefore here all the usual Chymical fires with all their graduations are utterly secluded so as neither any naked fire nor the heat of filings of Iron of sand of ashes nor of Baln Mar. though kept in a most exquisite manner nor any of the fires engendered by putrefaction as of dung and such like no nor the heat of the Sun or of a Lamp or an Athanor the last refuge of our wandring and illiterate Alchymists have here any place at all So that by this fire and furnace onely a man may easily discern a mercenary workman if he deale in vegetables onely from a second Philosopher and if in any thing as no doubt in many things then here especially vulgaris oculus caligat plurimum This fire is by nature generally offered unto all and yet none but the children of Art have power to apprehend it for being coelestial it is not easily understood of an elemental braine and being too subtile for the sense of the Eye it is left onely to the search of a divine wit and there I leave it for this time The physical use of this fire is to divide a Coelum terrae and then to stellifie the same with any animall or vegetable star whereby in the end it may become a quintessence Here I had thought to have handled that crimson coloured salt of Nature so farre exceeding all other salts in a true quick and lively taste which is drawne from the Philosophers earth and worketh miraculous effects in mans body and withall to have examined that strange opinion which Doctor Quercitanus an excellent Theorist in Nature and a great Writer in these dayes doth violently maintaine in his discourse upon Salt-peter But because it is impertinent to this subject and that I have discoursed more at large thereon in my Abstract of Corn Agrip. his Booke De occult Philos. and for that Quercitanus doth shew himselfe to be a true Lover of Hermes Houshold I will not straine my wit to write against any particular person that professeth himselfe to be of that family although both he and some others as great as himselfe must give me leave whensoever I shall be forced in that Booke to handle the practical part of Nature and her processe happily to weaken some principles and positions which both he and they have already published excusing my selfe with that golden saying of Ar●isttle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Amicus Socrates amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas But I am affraid I have been too bold with vulgar wits who take no pleasure to heare any man altius philosophari that they can well understand and therefore I have compiled this Book in plain termes of such a Garden and Orchard as will better serve for common use and fit their wits and conceits much better FINIS ●ooks printed or sold by William Leake at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple Gates A Bible of a faire large Roman letter 4o Tokt's Heraldy Man become guilty by Iohn Francis Senalt Englished by Henry Earl of Monmouth Welby's second Set of Musique 3 4 5 and 6 Paris The H●story of Vienna and Paris Callis learned Readings on the Stat. 21. H. 8. cap. 5. of Sewers Sken ' de fignificatione Verba rum Posing of the Accidence Delaman's use of the Horizontall Quadrant Corderim in English Doctor Fulkis Meteors Nyes Gunnery Fireworks Gato Major with Annotat. Mel Helliconium by Alex. Riss Lizerillo de Tormes The Ideot in four books Aula Luck or the house of Light Topicks in the Laws of Engl Perkins on the Laws of Engl Wilkinsons Office of Sheriffs Parsons Law Mirrour of Justice The Fort Royall of Holy Scripture or a new Concordance by J. 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Musk rose to beare late Roots in their best strength Artichocks from frost 23 38. Flowers or leaves gilded and growing Quae●● of Isinglasse dissolved Flowers candied as they grow A Garden within doors Barly growing without earth Pots for flowers of a good fashion See this also Numb. 56. Roses or Carnations in winter Reviving of Carnations Orchard of dwarf trees Uineyard to plant Trees growing either high or lowe Early fruit Old trees recovered Vines recovered Ordering of the Musk-Mellon The shortest way is to buy plants and set them Pompions and Cowcumbers multiplied Mellons to growe great Earlie strawberries Roses to bear late and from frost Early Roses and Carnations Early Roses Carots parseneps and Turneps kept long Roses and flowers backward Quaere of doing thus after the rose is new budded Roots long and great Seeds to multiply Large Carots or parsneps A new planting of carnations wall-flowers stock gilliflowers Plants to carry far Branches to root To kill Wormes Rich mold When to set or sow One plant upon another or upon a tree Colour sent or taste of a flower altered Fence of fruit trees White-thorn hedge Carnation seed to gather Coleflow re seed to gather to plant Coleflower to bear late Divers carnations in one root Stately

THE GARDEN OF EDEN OR An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England with particular Rules how to advance their Nature and Growth as well in Seeds and Herbs as the secret ordering of Trees and Plants By that learned and great Observer Sir HUGH PLAT Knight The Fourth Edition LONDON Printed for William Leake at the Crown in Fleetstreet betwixt the Two Temple Gates 1654. TO THE HONOURABLE and most perfect Gentleman FRANCIS FINCH junior of the Inner Temple Esquire SIR YOu may please to pardon my forward inscribing this Book to your name Were it a Work of mine own composition I should have thought on a meaner Patron But the memory of that learned Knight the Authour to whom I had so neer Alliance may excuse this presumption He was a great Searcher after all sorts of Knowledge and as great a lover of it in all others And I humbly conceiv'd I could not doe him a higher service than by placing his Book under your Protection who are not more honour'd by those many Noble Families whence you are descended than by that large Portion of Learning and Vertue which have so enriched your Noble mind and rendred you precious to all that know you I hope that Candor and sweetness which accompanies all your Actions will also shew it selfe in acceptation of this Offering from him who is ambitious of no other title than SIR The most humble and most devoted of all those that honour you CHARLES BELLINGHAM The PVBLISHER To the Reader I Shall not blush to tell you I had some ambition to publish this Book as well to doe right to the learned Author my ever honoured Kinsman as to check their forwardnesse who were ready to violate so usefull a Work There are some men of great name in the world who made use of this Author and it had been civil to have mentioned his name who held forth a candle to light them to their desires but this is an unthankfull age And what ever you may think of this small Piece it cost the Author many yeares search and no small expence there being not extant in our language any work of this Subject so necessary and so brief He had consultation with all Gentlemen Scholars nay not a Gardiner in England of any note but made use of his Discoveries and confirm'd his inventions by their own Experience And what ever they discover'd such was his modesty he freely acknowledges by naming the Authors sometimes in words at length as Mr. Hill Mr. Taverner M. Pointer M. Colborn M. Melinus M. Simson and sometimes by T. T. A. P. c. What ever is his own hath no name at all unlesse sometimes and that not often he add H. P. at the end of the Paragraph And when he refers you to some other part of the Book 't is according to the Number or Section not the Page for that onely serves for the Table He wrote other pieces of Natural Philosophy whereunto he subjoyned an excellent Abstract of Cornelius Agrippa de Occulta Philosophia but they fell into ill hands and worse times As for this Collection of Flowers and Fruits I would say if I had not so near Relation to it that no English man that hath a Garden or Orchard can handsomely be without it but at least by having it will finde a large benefit And all Ladies and Gentlemen by reading these few leaves may not only advance their knowledge and observation when they walke into a Garden but discourse more skilfully of any Flower Plant or Fruit then the Gardiner himself who in a manner growes there night and day Farewell C. B. The Author's Epistle To all Gentlemen Ladies and all others delighting in God's Vegetable Creatures HAving out of mine own experience as also by long conference with divers Gentlemen of the best skill and practice in the altering multiplying enlarging planting and transplanting of sundry sorts of Fruits Flowers at length obtained a pretty volume of experimentall observations in this kind And not knowing the length of my daies nay assuredly knowing that they are drawing to their period I am willing to unfold my Napkin and deliver my poor talent abroad to the profit of some who by their manuall works may gain a greater imployment than heretofore in theirusual callings and to the pleasuring of others who delight to see a rarity spring out of their own labors and provoke Nature to play and shew some of her pleasing varieties when shee hath met with a stirring workman I hope so as I bring substantiall and approved matter with me though I leave method at this time to Schoolmen who have already written many large and methodicall volumes of this subject whose labours have greatly furnished our Studies and Libraries but little or nothing altered or graced our Gardens and Orchards that you will accept my skill in such a habit and form as I shall think most fit and appropriate for it and give me leave rather to write briefly and confusedly with those that seek out the practicall and operative part of Nature whereunto but a few in many ages have attained then formally and largely to imitate her Theorists of whom each age affordeth great store and plenty And though amongst these two hundred experiments there happen a few to faile under the workmans hand which yet may be the Operators mistake not mine yet seeing they are such as carry both good sense and probability with them I hope in your courtesie I shall find you willing to excuse so small a number because I doubt not but to give good satisfaction in the rest And let not the concealing or rather the figurative describing of my last and principall secret withdraw your good and thankfull acceptation from all that go before on which I have bestowed the plainest and most familiar phrase that I can for Jo. Baptista Porta himself that gallant and glorious Italian without craving any leave or pardon is bold to set down in his Magia naturalis amongst many other conclusions of Art and Nature four of his secret skils viz. concerning the secret killing of mē the precipitation of salt out of sea water the multiplying of corn two hundred fold which elswhere I have discovered the puffing up of a little past to the bignesse of a foot-ball in an obscure and Aenigmatical phrase And I make no question but that if he had known this part of vegetable Philosophy he would have penned the same as a Sphinx roll'd it up in the most cloudy and dark some speech that he could possibly have devised This Author I say hath emboldened me and some Writers of more worth and higher reach then himself have also charged me not to disperse or divulgate a secret of this nature to the common and vulgar eye or ear of the world And thus having acquainted you with my long costly and laborious Collections not written at adventure or by an imaginary conceit in a Scholars private study