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Or Mallows, there are many kinds and full of many ver∣tues, but first I will describe which they are, and then I'le treat of them in particular.
First, For worthiness and beauty that are placed in Gardens of pleasure, is the white, and red, and double Holihock; next the red, white, yellow, and blew, double Holihock; forasmuch as they are called Mallows, I take them to be two or three distinct kinds, for there is the Kings-Mallow, * 1.1 March Mallow, and French-Mallow, these bear single Flowers, and so will the Holihock without good industry; but that is not all, they differ in vertue; as the Kings-Mallow, the French-Mallow, these are for physicall uses, and the Ho∣lihocks are very wholsome for the body, and a very pleasant Flower they bear: I shall not treat of every sort in this place, because they fit not the Garden of pleasure, I shall reserve the French-Mallow, March-Mallow, or Kings Mallow, to the Treatise of the physicall Garden.
Holihocks I have described, what they are in order to their places and names, I think it is needless to write any far∣ther description of them they are so generally known: I now proceed to the propagating of them.
First, To have them early from the seed, you shall sow * 1.2 them in hot beds in the middle of March, the seed is of a quick spirit and cometh up the sixth day, these plants must be covered or else you will lose your labour; by May day you shall replant these seedlings into borders next the walls, set them at the innermost part at a yard distance, set them nigh the wall, because they spread much: another reason is, you may nail the body of it to the wall to keep the wind from breaking of them, these will flower by the latter end of the summer.
A second and ordinary way of sowing of them is in the * 1.3 middle of April, in beds of ordinary earth, where you may let them remain till the next August, then replant them as you did the former.
The third best way is, to sow them in the middle of Au∣gust, * 1.4 so by the coming on in winter they will have four or