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20 The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 
thar they will likewife take if they befo vfed , the manner whereof is thus : You muft 
choofe ourthe youngeft, likelieft, and loweft branches that are neareft the ground (for 
the vppét branches will fooner breake at the ioynt, than bend downe fo low into. the 
earth, withourfome pot with earth raifed vp vntothem) and cut it on the vnderfide 
thereofvpwards at the fecond ioynt next vato the roote, to the middle of the branch, 
and nomore, and:not quite thorougtvin any cafe, and then from that fecondioyntyn- 
tothe third, flit or cut the branch inthe middle longwife, that fo it may be the more 
ealily bended intothe ground , ithe cut ioynt feeming likethe end of ailippe ,: when 
youharebended downe the branchwhereit is cutinto the ground (which muft bee 
done very gently forfeare of breaking) with a little fticke or two thruft flopewife, 
croffe quer it, keepe it downe within the earth, and raife vp fufficient earth oner it,that 
thereit may lye and:take roote, which commonly will be effeéted within fixe weekes 
or two monethsitithe Summer time , and then (or longer if you doubt thetime too 
fhort for it to takefinflicient roote) you may take or cut.it away, and tranfplantit where 
you thinke good, yet fo.asin any cafe you fhadow it from the heate ofthe Sunne, vn. 
till it hauetaken good holdin the ground. ':: The other way to encreafe Gilloflowers, 
is by fowing the feede : It is nor vfuall with all forts of Gilloflowers to giuefeede; but 
{uch of, them asdocyceld fee be encreafedthereby, inthe fame manneras is — 
here fet downe. The Orangetawn Wwerand the varieties thereof is themoft — 
viuall kinde, (anditisakindeby it felfe , how variousfocuer:the, plants be that rife 
fromthe feede) that doth giuefeede, andis fowne, and from thencearifeth fomany 
varieties of colours, both plaineand mixt, both fingle and double,that onecanhardly — 
fetthem downe in: writing : yetfuch as L hane obferued and marked > you fhall finde — 
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