It is so called by reason of its long continuance on the stalk, and being gathered, it will keep fresh two moneths in the house: I'll give you a short description of it; it springeth up about the beginning of May, and by August it flowereth; it rises up with a stalk two-foot high; there is but one flower of a stalk, and that putteth out like the Fennel-flower, with many small leaves like the inner part of a Marigold; this flower is white, it seldome or never leaveth seed behind it, the branch dieth yearly, and the root remaineth in the ground, which is like the root of the Spare-mint.
If you will have this Flower in your Garden, you must pro∣cure the root in the Spring-time, then provide a bed by it self, * 1.1 dresse it in order, as you do for any other flower, then plant three chace of these slips in a bed, the bed being two foot and a half in breadth, water them well at the first planting, plant nothing else amongst them, for they increase and spread mightily; this done, you shall have them to flower that Summer, and continue with you alwayes they being cleansed from weeds.