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not fuifice to write of euery one at large in particular . confidering how infinite they are, and how 

 coer y yearc cucry clymate and country bnngeth forth new forts, fuch as haue not heretofore been 

 written of; fome whereof are called Carnations , others Cloue Gillo floures/ome Sops in wine 

 foroc Pagiants,or Pagion color,Horfe-flefl),blunket,purpIe,white,doubIe and fingle Gillbiiourcs' 

 asalfoa Gilloflourc with yellow flours:the which a worfhipful Merchant of London M. Nicholas 

 La: procured from Poland,and gaue me thereof for my garden, which before that time was ncuer 

 feen nor heard of in thefe countries. Likewife there be fundiy forts of Pinks comprehended vnder 

 the fame title, which (hall bedeicribed in a feuerall chapter. There be vnder the name of Gillo- 

 floures alfo rhofefloures which we call Sweet- lohns and Sweet- Williams. And firft of the <*reat 

 Carnation and Cloue Gillofloure. & 



i Thcreare very many kinds both of Gil!ofloures,Pinkes } and the Iike,which differ very little 

 in their roor.s,leaues,ieeds ;,or manerofgrowing,though much in the colour, fhape,and magnitude 

 or their floures ; whercof fome are ofonecolour,other fome of morejand of them fome are ft n'ped 

 others fpotted.&c. Now I (holding it a thing not fo fit for me to infift vpon thefe accidenral dif- 

 ferences of plants, hauingfpecifiqucdiiferences enough to trpar nf\rpfi»r r.,„v. _ jj.-n . * 



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famiobn Parktifi .,-__,, „ vaicu W1 ulcie varle ues ; and it rhey 



require further fatisfaction,let them at the time of the yearerepair to the garden of MiftreiTe tW 

 gjbewikot mylatedeceafed friend W Ralph T^y) in Weftminfter,which in the excellcncfe~ 

 rt^*tekd'l$*nc*de&*ll thatl haue feen-asalfo he himfelfevvhilit he Ifoed £! 

 ceded moft,if not all of his time, in his care,induftry,and skil in raifing,encreafing and nrefmunl 



of thefe n anrsanH famr r,rh*r<:. w h n r~ l^flfi. »l«,.„c^l :. .u ,: &J v ' , "- tc,u, ''gi dna preii ruing 



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rclouers of plants I will only giue you the figures of fome three or foure more,whereof one L of 



t! gk A K n T h ; C V h f ef T C ?T teatme a Pinke > lhou g h in mine °P'nion vnfirl yX that it is 

 gxberi by the feed of moft of the double ones , and is of different colour and ftape as £jw 

 varying from them only in the fingleneiTe of the floures. ± P y J 



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t c mhBm major & minor, tubro & dho vatierath 



1 he white Carnation,and Pageant. 



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$ Caryophy Um futpureus pnfunde UcinUtus- 



The blew, or deep purple GilloHoure; 



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