1 8 The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 



fowing, and how to preferue them being encreafed, both in Summer from noyfome 

 and hurtfull vermine that deftroy them, and in Winter from frorts, fnowes, and 

 windes, that fpoile them. There are two wayes of planting, whereby to encreafe 

 thefe faire flowers ; the one is by flipping which is the old and ready vfuall way, bed 

 knowne in this Kingdome ; the other is more fure, perfecl, ready, and of later inuen- 

 tion, videlicet^ by laying downe the branches. The way to encreafe Gilloflowers by 

 flipping, is fo common with all that euer kept any of them, that I think moft perfons 

 may thinke me idle, to fpend time to fet downe in writing that which is fo well known 

 vnto all : Yet giue me leaue to tell them that fo might imagine, that (when they haue 

 heard or read what I haue written thereof, if they did know fully as much before) what 

 I here write, was not to informe them, but fuch as did not know the beft, or fo good a 

 way as I teach them : For I am aflured, the greateft number doe vfe, and follow the 

 moft vfuall way, and that is not alwaies the beft, efpecially when by good experience 

 a better way is found, and may be learned; and therefore if fome can doe a thing 

 better than others, I thinke it is no fhame to learne it of them. You (hall not then (to 

 take the fureft courfe) take any long fpindled branches, nor thofe branches that haue 

 any young fhootes from the ioynts on them, nor yet fliue or teare any flippe or branch 

 from the roote ; for all thefe waies are vfuall and common with molt, which caufeth 

 fo many good rootes to rot and perifh, and alfo fo many flippes to be loft, when as 

 for the moft part, not the one halfe, or with fome, not a third part doth grow and 

 thriue of thofe flippes they fet. And although many that haue ftore of plants, doe not 

 fo much care what hauocke they make to gaine fome, yet to faue both labour and 

 plants, I doe wifh them to obferue thefe orders : Take from thofe rootes from whence 

 you intend to make your encreafe, thofe fhootes onely that are reafonable ftrong, but 

 yet young, and not either too fmall and flender, or hauing any fhootes from the ioynts 

 vpon them ; cut thefe flippes or fhootes off from the ftemme or roote with a knife, as 

 conueniently as the fhoote or branch will permit, that is, either clofe vnto the maine 

 branch, if it be fhort, or leauing a ioynt or two behinde you, if it be long enough, at 

 which it may fhoote anew : When you haue cut off your flippes, you may either fet 

 them by and by, or elfe as the beft Gardiners vfe to doe, caft them into a tubbe or pot 

 with water for a day or two, and then hauing prepared a place conuenient to fet them 

 in, which had neede to bee of the fineft, richeft, and beft mould you can prouide, 

 that they may thriue therein the better, cut off your flippe clofe at the ioynt, and ha- 

 uing cut away the loweft leaues clofe to the ftalke, and the vppermoft euen at the top, 

 with a little fticke make a little hole in the earth, and put your flippe therein fo deep, as 

 that the vpper leaues may be wholly aboue the ground, (fome vfe to cleaue the ftalke 

 in the middle, and put a little earth or clay within the cleft, but many good and skil- 

 full Gardiners doe not vfe it) ; put the earth a little clofe to the flippe with your ringer 

 and thumbe, and there let it reft, and in this manner doe with as many flippes as you 

 haue, fetting them fomewhat clofe together, and not too farre in funder, both to faue 

 ground and coft thereon, in that a fmall compafle will feme for the firft planting, and 

 alfo the better to giue them fhadow : For you muft remember in any cafe, that thefe 

 flippes new fet, haue no fight of the Sunne, vntill they be well taken in the ground, and 

 fhot aboue ground, and alfo that they want not water, both vpon the new planting 

 and after. When thefe flippes are well grown vp, they muft be tranfplanted into fuch 

 other places as you thinke meete ; that is, either into the ground in beds, or other- 

 wife, or into pots, which that you may the more fafely doe, after you haue well wate- 

 red the ground, for halfe a day before you intend to tranfplant them, you fhall fepa- 

 rate them feuerally, by putting down a broad pointed knife on each fide of the flippe, 

 fo cutting it out, take euery one by it felfe, with the earth cleauing clofe vnto the root, 

 which by reafon of the moifture it had formerly, and that which you gaue prefently 

 before, will be fufficient with any care had, to caufe it to hold faft vnto the roote for 

 the tranfplanting of it : for if the earth were dry, and that it fhould fall away from the 

 roote in the tranfplanting, it would hazzard and endanger the roote very much, if it 

 did thriue at all. You muft remember alfo, that vpon the remouing of thefe flips, you 

 fhadow them from the heate of the Sunne for a while with fome ftraw or other thing, 

 vntill they haue taken hold in their new place. Thus although it bee a little more la- 

 bour and care than the ordinary way is, yet it is furer, and will giue you plants that 



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