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| ‘11. Anemone tensifolia flore rubrofafco pleno coma Amarantina, 
~~ "The double purple Veluet Anemone. — 
"this double Veluet Anemone isin all things like the laft defcribed Carnation 4- 
bint e, but fomewhat larger , the difference confifteth in the colour ofthe f ower, 
which in this is of a deep or fad crimfon red colour forthe outer leaucs,andofadecp 
purple Veluet colour in the middle thrums, refembling the colourof theleffer sma. 
_ vanthus parpsrens , or Purple lower gentle hereafter defcribed, wher cof it tooke oF a 
“name, which middle thrumsareas fine and {mall, andias cucnatthetoppes as the 
: white or laft Carnation ' A | 
© and Anemone renaifolia flrré plenotricalors — ne 
The double purple Veluet Anemone of three colours. wk 
‘This double Anemonealfo is very like the laft defcribed Anetnone, but that in the 4 
middle of the purple thrums, there thrufteth forth a tuft of threads or leaues of a more a 
lightcrimfoncolour, | wo ie & 
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hitherto ier a aah” AE Reva eb that-morevaricties haiebeene _ 
elfewhere colleéted, and will be alfoin our Countrey daily and yearly obferuedby _ 
diners, that raife them vp from fowing the feede, wherein lyetha pretty art, not yct fa- 
miliarly knowne to our Nation, although it be very frequent inthe Lowe-Countries, 
ey haue valued fome Anemones at fuch high rates, 2s moft would wonder at, 
and none of our Nation would purchafe, as Ithinke. AndI doubt not, if weewould _ 
beas curious as they, but that both our ayre and foyle would produce as great variety, 
as ever hath been feenein the Lowe-Countries ; whichto procure, if any of-our Nati- — 
on will take fo much paines in fowing the feedes of Anemones, as diuers hauedone of 
Tulipas: I will ferthem downe the beft directions for that purpofe that I haué learned 
or could by much fearch and tryall attaine vnto ; yet I muft let them vnderftand thus 
much alfo, that there is not fo great variety of double flowers raifed from the feede of — 
the thin leafed Anemones,as fromthebroadleafedones. 8 - ~~ a 4 
Firft therefore (as I {aid before) concerning Tulipas, there is fome fpeciall choiceto 
be made of fuch fowers,whole {eed is fitteftte be taken. Of the Latifolias,the double _ 
Orengetawney {eedebeing fowne, yecldeth pretty varieties, butthe purples, and 
reds, or crim{ons, Soin rete Te#uifélias,yceld {mall variety, but fuchasdraw 
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the light colours be they which arethe chiefe for choice,as white, afh-colour, bluh 
_ orcarnation, light orenge, fimple or party coloured, fingle or double, if they beare 
feede, which muft bec carefully gathered , and that not before itbee thorough ripe, 
which you fhall know by thc head ; for when the feede with the wollinefle beginneth 
to rifea little of it felfeatthelower end, it muft bee then quickly gathered, left the 
Winde carry itallaway. After it isthus carefully gathered, it muftbe laidto dryfora 
| bag cd awit ee a My sec. rubbed witha little dry fand or earth, will — 
cauie tne: to be fomewhar better eparat ed. alth . . ioe 
4 by nay ial — compafethit. ° <2 3 auger vee | 
Within amoneth at the moft afterthe feed is thus gathered and prepared, it muft 
befowne ; For by that meanes you fhall gaine a yeare in the ; «oS 
thou dovf you fowedit inthe neve Spring. “4 aw arf Bioing > ouer that you 
_ -Ifthereremaine any woollinetfe inthe feede ; pullit in funder as well 2: 1 4 
and then fowe your feede reafonable thin, and nottoothicke, peipplantiaael! 
bed of fine earth, or rather in pots or tubes, and afterthe fowing, fiftor gently ftraw 
oucr them fome fine good freth mould, about one fingers thicknefleatthe moft forthe 
in likenranner another fingers thicknefle of fine earth, and in the meanetimeif the 
weather prove dry, you muft water them gently andoften, but nottoouerglut them 
rite molliute 5 206 EUs Og Sa hauc them Spring vp before Winter, and 
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