14 The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 



borne, and for two or three years after from bearing flowers againe. For the order of 

 their planting there are diuers wayes, fome whereof I will (hew you in this place : Your 

 knot or beds being prepared fitly, as before is declared, you may place and order your 

 rootes therein thus, Eyther many rootes of one kind fet together in a round or clufter, 

 or longwife croffe a bed one by another, whereby the beauty of many flowers of one 

 kinde being together, may make a faire fhew well plealing to many ; Or elfe you may 

 plant one or two in a place difperfedly ouer the whole knot, or in a proportion or dia- 

 meter one place anfwering another of the knot, as your ftore will fuffer you, or your 

 knot permit: Or you may alfo mingle thefe rootes in their planting many of diuers 

 forts together, that they may giue the more glorious fhew when they are in flower ; and 

 that you may fo doe, you muft firft obferue the feuerall kindes of them, which doe 

 flower at one and the fame time, and then to place them in fuch order and fo neare one 

 vnto another, that their flowers appearing together of feuerall colours, will caufe the 

 more admiration in the beholders : as thus, The Vernall Crocus or Saffron flowers of 

 the Spring, white, purple, yellow, and ftript, with fome Vernall Colchicum or Medow 

 Saffron among them, fome Dens Caninus or Dogges teeth, and fome of the fmall early 

 Leucoium or Bulbous Violet, all planted in fome proportion as neare one vnto ano- 

 ther as is fit for them, will giue fuch a grace to the Garden, that the place will feeme 

 like a peece of tapeftry of many glorious colours, to encreafe euery ones delight : Or 

 elfe many of one fort together, as the blew, white, and blufh Grape flowers in the fame 

 manner intermingled, doe make a maruellous deleclable fhew, especially becaufe all of 

 them rife almoft to an equall height, which caufeth the greater grace, as well neare 

 hand as farre of. The like order may be kept with many other things, as the Hepatica, 

 white, blew, purple, and red fet or fowne together, will make many to beleeue that 

 one roote doth beare all thofe colours : But aboue and beyond all others, the Tulipas 

 may be fo matched, one colour anfwering and fetting of another, that the place where 

 they ftand may refemble a peece of curious needle-worke, or peece of painting ; and I 

 haue knowne in a Garden, the Mafler as much commended for this artificiall forme in 

 placing the colours of Tulipas, as for the goodnefle of his flowers, or any other thing. 

 The diuers forts and colours of Anemones or Winde-flowers may be fo ordered like- 

 wife, which are very beautifull, to haue the feuerall varieties planted one neare vnto 

 another, that their feuerall colours appearing in one place will be a very great grace in 

 a Garden, or if they be difperfed among the other forts of flowers, they will make a 

 glorious fhew. Another order in planting you may obferue ; which is this, That thofe 

 plants that grow low, as the Aconitum Hyemale or Winter-wolues bane, the Vernall 

 Crocus or Saffron-flowers of diuers forts, the little early Leucoium or Bulbous Vio- 

 let, and fome fuch other as rife not vp high, as alfo fome Anemones may be very well 

 placed fomewhat neare or about your Martagons, Lillies, or Crownes Imperiall, both 

 becaufe thefe little plants will flower earlier than they, and fo will bee gone and paft, 

 before the other greater plants will rife vp to any height to hinder them ; which is a 

 way may well be admitted in thofe Gardens that are fmall, to faue roome, and to place 

 things to the moft aduantage. Thus hauing fhewed you diuers wayes and orders how 

 to plant your rootes, that your flowers may giue the greater grace in the Garden, let 

 mee fhew you likewife how to fet thefe kindes of rootes into the ground ; for many 

 know not well eyther which end to fet vpwards or downewards, nor yet to what 

 depth they fhould be placed in the ground. Daffodils if they be great rootes, will re- 

 quire (as muft bee obferued in all other great plants) to bee planted fomewhat deeper 

 than the fmaller of the fame kinde, as alfo that the tops or heads of the rootes be about 

 two or three fingers breadth hid vnder ground. The Tulipas likewife if you fet them 

 deepe, they will be the fafer from frofls if your ground be cold, which will alfo caufe 

 them to be a little later before they be in flower, yet vfually if the mould be good, they 

 are to be fet a good hand breadth deep within the ground, fo that there may be three or 

 foure inches of earth at the leaft aboue the head, which is the fmaller end of the roote : 

 for if they mail lye too neare the vpper face or cruft of the earth, the colds & frofts will 

 pierce and pinch them the fooner. After the fame order and manner muft Hyacinthes, 

 whether great or fmall, and other fuch great rootes be planted. Your greater rootes, as 

 Martagons, Lillies, and Crownes Imperiall, muft be fet much deeper than any other 

 bulbous roote, becaufe they are greater rootes than others, and by themfelues alfo, as 



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