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Tulips live best planted alone, but you may put some anemonies 

 with them on the outside the beds if they be raised high and 

 round. They will come up in December and January, and the 

 early sorts flower in the latter end of March, and beginning of 

 April, the other a fortnight or more after them. Set the 

 mother-roots by themselves, and the young offsets b}^ themselves. 

 The new varieties of tulips come from sowing their seeds, but 

 the seedlings will be five years at least before they bear a 

 flower. Keep old strong roots for seed, of such kinds as have 

 blue cup and purple chives, and are striped with pure white, 

 and carnations or gridelines or murreys. The single colours 

 with blue cups or bottoms, and purple chives will most of them 

 parrach or stripe and will stand two years unremoved when the 

 roots are old." 



A further catalogue of the contents of the flower garden at 

 Bettisfield in 1660 is chiefly a list of its tulips. Each bed is 

 mentioned, and every row of bulbs taken separately, and the 

 name of each bulb, as many as thirteen ranks, all carefully 

 arranged. But other flowers also found corners, although not 

 allowed beds to themselves. This was another bed at Bettisfield. 

 " In the middle of this bed is one Double Crown Imperial. 

 In the end are six rows of Iris raised from seed by Rea ; — also 

 polyanthuses and daffodils. In the four corners of this second 

 bed are four roots of good anemonies." In one there was a 

 preponderance of Narcissus, all described " Belles du Val 

 narcissi, all yellow." . . " Belle Selmane narcissi, right dear 

 ones," and so on. "The border under the South Wall in the 

 great garden is full of good anemones, and near the musk-rose 

 are two roots of the daffodil of Constantinople from Rea, and 

 a ]\Iartagon pomponium." These extracts show that Thomas 

 Hanmer was a friend of the gardener and author Rea. He 

 made a catalogue of choice plants, "yet such as will bear our 

 climate," with short " directions for their preservation and 

 increase, not meddling with their medical qualities," and it is 

 believed that these notes were given to Rea, who made use 

 of them in his book. 



Sir Thomas was also a friend of Evelyn and imparted 

 some of his knowledge of plants to him. On August 22nd, 



