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The Garden of pleafant E lowers. 
- etic obforme or colour afterwards 
ties of mixtures we haue feene and obferued in them, that fo they may be both the ber. 
ter defcribed by me, and the better conceined by others, and euery one placed in their | 
yoperranke. Yet I fhall in this, as I intend to doe in diuers other plants that are ya. | 
siable, giue bur one defcription.in greta of the plant, andthenict downe the vari. | 
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vi Tulips precex. Theearly flowring’ Tulipa., Ha 
Theearly Tulipa (and fo all other Tulipas) fpringeth out of the ground with hig 
leaues folded one within another, the firft or loweft leafe rifeth yp firft , fharpe poins 
ted, and folded round together, vatill it be an inch ortwo abouethe ground , which : 
then openeth it felfe, fhewing another leafefolded alfoin the bofome or belly of the 
firft, which in time likewife openingit {¢lfe, theweth forth a third, and fometimesa 
fourth and a fifth : the lower leaues are larger thenthe vpper, and are faire, thicke, | 
broad, long, and hollow like agutter, and lometimes ctumpledon the edges, which 
will hold waterthatfalleth thereonalongtime, of a pale or whitifh greene colour, © 
(and the Medieand Serotine more grecne)couered onet as it Were witha mealineffes We 
hoarineffe, with aneye or fhew of red nefle towards the bottome of thelleanes, and the _ 
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ties, the bottomes likewile ofthe Icaues of thefe fometimes, but moft efpecially ofthe 
ae, Very LUKE 
ftalke with the lcaues thereon rife vp outof the middle’ of thes oxte sy seh . 
