1 6 The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 



thefe dainty flowers, the firft whereof is this, That you fhall not i>ee carefull to water 

 any of your bulbous or tuberous rooted plants at any time ; for they all of them do bet- 

 ter profper in a dry ground than in a wet, onely all forts of tuberous rooted Flowerde- 

 luces vpon their remouall had neede of a little water, and fome will doe fo alk> to fuch 

 Tulipas and other bulbous rootes as they tranfplant, when they are in flower, and this 

 is I grant in fome fort tolerable, if it :bee not too much, and done onely to caufe the 

 ftalke and flower to abide fometime the longer before they wither, but elfe in no other 

 cafe to be permitted. The fecond rule is, That I would aduife you to water none of 

 your dainty flowers or herbes, with any water that hath preferttly before 'been drawne 

 out of a well or pumpe, but onely with fuch water that hath ftood open in the Sunne 

 in fome cifterne, tubbe, or pot for a day at the leaft, if more the better: for that water 

 which is prefently drawne out of a well, &c. is fo cold, that it prefently chilleth & kil- 

 leth any dainty plant be it younger or elder grown, whereof I haue had firfficient proofe : 

 and therforel giue you this caution by mine own experience. Thus haue I directed you 

 from point to point, in all the particulars of preparing & planting that belong to this 

 Garden, fauing only that yet I would further enforme you, of the'time of the flowring 

 of thefe Out-landifh plants, according to the feuerall moneths in the yeare, that euery 

 one may know what flowers euery moneth yee'ldeth, and may chufe what them liketh 

 beft, in that they may fee that there is no moneth, but glorieth in fome peculiar forts of 

 rare flowers. I would likewife rather in this place mew you, the true and beft manner 

 & order to encreafe and preferue all forts of Gilloflowers & 'Carnations, then ioyne it 

 with the 'Chapter of Gilloflowers in the worke following, becaufe it would in that 

 place take vp too much roome. And laftly, I mtift of neceffity oppofe three fundry 

 errours, that haue poflefled the mindes of many both in former and later times, which 

 are, that any flower may be made to grow double by art, that was but tingle before by 

 nature : And that one may by art caufe any flower to grow of Tvhat colour they will : 

 And that any plants may "be forced to flower out of their due feafons, either earlier or 

 later, by an art which fome can vfe. All which being declared, I then fuppofe enough 

 is fpoken for an introduction to this worke, referring many other things to the feuerall 

 directions in the Chapters of the booke. 



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he feuerall times of the flowring of thefe Qut-landifh flowers, according to the feuerall 



moneths of the yeare. 



I Intend in this place onely to giue you briefly, the names of fome of the chiefeft of 

 thefe Out-landifh flowers, according to the feuerall moneths of the yeare wherein 

 they flower, that euery one feeing what forts of flowers euery moneth yeeldeth, 

 may take of them which they like beft. I begin with January, as the firft moneth of the 

 yeare, Wherein if the frofts be not extreme, you fhall haue thefe flowers of plants; the 

 Chriftmas flower or Helleborus niger verus, Winter wolues bane or Aconitum hye- 

 male, Hepatica or Noble Liuer wort blew and red, and of ihrubbes, the Lauras Tinus 

 or Wilde Bay tree, and Mefereon or the dwarfe Bay : but becaufe lanuarie is often- 

 times too deepe in frefts and fnow, I therefore referre the Hepaticas vnto the moneth 

 following, which is February, wherein the weather beginneth to be a little milder, 

 and then they will flower much better, as alfo diuers forts of Crocus or Saffron flow- 

 er will appeare, the little early Summer foole or Leucoium bulbofum, and towards 

 the latter end thereof the Vernall Colchicum, the Dogges tooth Violet or Dens Ca- 

 minus, and fome Anemones, both fingle and double, which in fome places will flower 

 all the Winter long. March will yeeld more varieties; for betides that it holdeth 

 fome of the flowers of the former moneth, it will yeeld you both the double blew He- 

 patica, and the white and the blufh fingle : then alfo you mall haue diuers other forts 

 of Crocus or Saffron flowers, Double yellow Daffodils, ; Orientall Jacinths and o- 

 thers, the Crowne Imperiall, diuers forts of early Tulipas, fome forts of French Cow- 

 flips, both tawney, murry, yellow, and blufh, the early Fritillaria or checkerd Daffo- 



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