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please in such sort as is shewed you for the colouring of 

 lillyes, and if you please to have them of mixt colours you 

 may also by Grafting of contrary colours one with another, 

 and you may with as great ease graft the gilliflowers as any 

 fruit whatsoever by the joynings of the knots one unto 

 another and then wrapping them about with a little soft 

 silke and covering the place close with soft, red waxe, well 

 tempered. And you shall understand that the grafting of 

 gilliflowers maketh them exceeding great double and most 

 orient of colour. Now if you will have your gilliflowers of 

 divers smels or odours, you may also with great ease, as thus 

 for example : if you will take two or three great Cloves, 

 steepe them for four and twenty hours in Damaske Rose- 

 water. Then take them -out and bruise them and put them 

 into a fine Cambrick ragge and so binde them about the 

 heart roote of the gilliflower near to the setting on of the 

 Stalk, and so plant it in a fine, soft and fertile mould, and 

 the flower which springeth from the same will have so 

 delicate a mixt smell of the clove and the Rose-water that 

 it will breed both delight and wonder. If in the same 

 manner you take a sticke of cinnamon and steepe it in Rose- 

 water, and then bruise it and bind it, as aforesaid, all the 

 flowers will smell strongly of cinnamon, if you take two 

 grains of fat muske or mix it with two drops of Damaske 

 Rose-water, and bind it, as aforesaid, the flowers will smell 

 strongly of muske, yet not too hot nor offensive, by reason 

 of the connection of the Rose-water, and in this sort you 

 may doe either with Ambergreece storac, Benjamin, or any 

 other sweet drugge whatsoever, and if in any of these con- 

 fections before named you steep the seedes of your gilli- 

 flowers foure and twenty houres before you sowe them, 

 they will take the same smels in which you steept them, 

 onely they will not be so large or double, as those which 

 are replanted or grafted. 



To MAKE SYRUP OF CLOVE GILLYFLOWERS. Take a quart 

 of water, half a bushel of Flowers, cut off the whites, and 

 with a Sive sift away the seeds, bruise them a little; let 

 your water be boyled and a little cold again, then put in 



