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leaues fet on a rough middle rib,& thofe fnipt about the edges -ATflT^r 



branches.in fhaneand colour like triedam a cL»T^r« K.,^.°„.„ "7, nours »«r 



f eene . of a reafdnabk 

 is like the other of his 



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6 RofaHoBMdicAfiveBatdv4. 



The great Holland Rofe,commonly called the great Pr ouince Rof e ; 





We haue in our London gardens one of the red Rofes, whofe flours are in qoantirieand beauue 

 cquall with the former,but of greater eftimation,ofa perfed red colour^wherin itefpecidlydine- 

 reth from the Province Rofe ; in Aalks,ftature,and manner of growing it agrees with our common 

 red Rofe. 



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AH thefe forts of Rofes we haue in our London gardens,except that Rofc withont pricks, wmen 

 as yet is a ftranger in England. The double white Rofe groweth wilde in many hedges of Lanca- 

 shire m great aboundance, euen as Briers do with vs in thefe Southerly parts, efpecially in apjace 

 ot the country called Leyland,and at Roughford not far from Latham. Moreouer,in the faidLcy- 

 land fields doth grow our garden Rofe wilde,in the plowed fields among the corne,in fucb aoou • 

 dancc,thatthere may be gathered daily during the time,many bufhels of rofes,equal with at w 

 garden Rofe in each refpe<3 : the thing thatgiueth great caufe of wonder, is, That in a field n 

 place aforefaid,called Glovers field,eucry yeare that the field is plowed for corne,thacyeareinv 

 ' u P j ° ue [ wit « Rofes,and when it lieth ley,or not plowed,then is there but few Rofes to wg 

 thered ; by the relarion of a curious gentleman there dwelIing,fo often remembred in our nu r- 

 • * I baue heard that the Rofes which grow in fuch plenty in GJovers field eueryjrerern 

 is plowed,are no other than Corn Rofe,that is,red Poppies, howeuer our Author was informer 



Thefe fioure from the end of May to the end o*Auguft,and d i uers times after,by re /°J S$ 

 and 1 uperfluous branches are cut away in the end of their flouring : and then doe tney 



fioure euen vntill O #ober and after, " aj fix 



