The ordering of the Garden of P/eafvre. i 3 



landifh flowers, that arc tic to furnilh the knots, trailes, beds* and borders of this Gar- 

 den. Roles oncly, as I laid before, I referuc to circle or encompalle all the rell, becaufe 

 that tor the molt part they are planted in the outer borders ot the quarters, and lotne- 

 tiines by themfelues in the middle ot long beds, the forts or kindes whereof are many, 

 as they are declared in tiicir proper place : but the White Role, the Red, and 

 the Damaske, are the moll ancient Standards in England, and therelore accoun- 

 ted naturall. 





CHAP. VI. 



The order and manner to plant and replant all the forts ofOut-laiiiiiJbJlnversfpoken of 

 before, as well thofe with bulbous rootes,, as others -with 

 Jtringie rootei. 



WHercas it it> die vfuall cultome of moil in this Land, to tur.ne vp their Gar- 

 dens, and to plant them againe in the Spring of the yeare, which is the 

 bell time that may bee cholen for all Englilh flowers, yet it is not fo for 

 your Out-landiih flowers. And herein indeede hath beene not onely the errour of a 

 great many to hinder their rootes from bearing out their flowers as they Ihould, but 

 allo to hinder many to take delight in them, becaufe as they fay they will not thriue 

 and profper with them, when as the whole fault is in the want of knowledge of the fit 

 and conuenient time wherein they Ihould bee planted. And becaufe our Englith Gar- 

 diners are all or the moll of them vtterly ignorant in the ordering of thefe Out-landilh 

 flowers, as not being trained vp to know them, I haue here taken vpon mee the forme 

 of a new Gardiner, to giue instructions to thofe that will take pleafure in them, that 

 they may be the better enabled with thefe helpes I (hall Ihew them, both to know how 

 they thould be ordered, and to direct their Gardiner^ that are ignorant thereof, rightly 

 to difpole them according to their naturall qualities. And I doe wiih all Gentlemen 

 and Gentlewomen, whom it may concerne for their owne good, to bee as carefull 

 whom they trull with the planting and replanting of thele fane flowers, as they would 

 be with fo many lewels ; for the rootes of many of them being 1 mall, and of great va- 

 lue, may be loone conueyed away, and a cleanly tale taire told, that fuch a roote is 

 rotten, or perithed in the ground if none be feen where it mould be, or elfe that the 

 flower hath changed his colour, when it hath been taken away, or a counterteit one 

 hath beene put in the place thereof; and thus many haue been deceiucd ot their dain- 

 tielt flowers, without remedy or true knowledge ot the detect. You tliall theretore, if 

 you will take the right courfe that is proper tor thefe kindes of flowers, not fet or plant 

 them among your English flowers; for that when the one may be remoued, the other 

 may not be llirred : but plant thofe rootes that are bulbous, or round like Onions, ey- 

 ther in knots or beds by themfelues which is the bell, or with but very few Englilh or 

 Out-landith flower plants that haue ftringie rootes: For you mult take this for a gene- 

 rail rule, that all thole rootes that are like Lillies or Onions, are to bee planted in the 

 moneths of luly or Augull, or vnto the middle or end of September at the furthdl, if 

 you will haue them to profper as they ihould ; and not in the Spring of the yeare, when 

 other gardening is vfed. Yet I muft likewife giue you to vnderlland,, that if Tulipas, 

 and Daffodils, and fome other thai are tirme and hard rootes, and not limber or 

 Ipongie, being taken vp out of the ground in thir tit fealon, that is, in lune, luly, and 

 Augufl, and likewife kept well and dry, may be referued out of the ground vntill 

 Chrillmas or after, and then (if they could not be let fooner) being fet, will thriue rea- 

 fonable well, but aot altogether fo well as the former, being fet long before: but it' 

 you thall remoue thefe bulbous rootes againe, either presently alter their planting ha- 

 uing thot their fmall fibres vnder the round rootes, and fprung likewife vpwards, or 

 before they be in flower at the foondl (yet Tulipas, Daffodils, and many other bul- 

 bous, may be lately remoued being in flower, and tranfplanted into other places, fo as 

 they be not kept too long out ot the ground) you Ihall much endanger them either vt- 

 terly to perilh, or to be hindered tram bearing out their flowers they then would haue 



borne, 



