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will be fo ftrongly growne before Winter, that with the care hereafter fpecified, you 

 (hull haue them bcare flowers the next yeare after, and yeeld you encreafe of flippcs 

 a lib. To giue you any let time, wherein thefe flippes will take roote, and begin to 

 fhoote aboue ground, is very hard to doe; for that euery flip, or yet euery kinde of Gil- 

 loflower is not alike apt to grow; nor is euery earth in like manner fit to produce and 

 bring forward the flippes that are fet therein : but if both the flippe be apt to grow, and 

 the earth of the belt, fit to produce, I thinke within a fortnight or three weekes, you 

 1 1 Kill lee them begin to put forth young leaues in the middle, or elfe it may be a moneth 

 and more before you (hall fee any fpringing. The belt time likewife when to plant, is 

 a fpeciall thing to be knowne, and of as great confequence as any thing elfe : For if you 

 Ilippe and fet in September, as many vfe to doe, or yet in Auguft, as fome may thinke 

 will doe well, yet (vnlefle they be the mort ordinary forts, which are likely to grow at 

 any time, and in any place) the moft of them, if not all, will either afluredly perifh, or 

 neuer profper well : for the more excellent and dainty the Gilloflower is, the more 

 tender for the moll part, and hard to nurfe vp will the flippes be. The bell time there- 

 fore is, that you cut off fuch flippes as are likely, and fuch as your rootes may fpare, 

 from the beginning of May vntill the middle of lune at the furtheft, and order them 

 as I haue (hewed you before, that fo you may haue faire plants, plenty of flowers, and 

 encreafe fufficient for new fupply, without offence or lofle of your ftore. For the en- 

 riching likewife of your earth, wherein you (hall plant your flippes, that they may the 

 better thriue and profper, diuers haue vfed diuers forts of manure ; as ftable foyle of 

 horfe, beafts or kine, of Iheepe, and pigeons, all which are very good when they are 

 thoroughly turned to mould, to mixc with your other earth, or being fteeped in water, 

 may ferue to water the earth at times, and turned in with it. And fome haue likewife 

 proued Tanners earth, that is, their barke, which after they haue vfed, doth lye on 

 heapes and rot in their yards, or the like mould from wood-ftackes or yards ; but efpe- 

 cially, and beyond all other is commended the Willow earth, that is, that mould 

 which is found in the hollow of old Willow trees, to be the moft principal! to mixe 

 with other good earth for this purpofe. And as I haue now giuen you directions for 

 the firft way to encreafe them by flipping, fo before I come to the other way, let mee 

 giue you a caueat or two for the preferuing of them, when they are beginning to runne 

 vtterly to decay and perifh : The one is, that whereas many are ouer greedy to haue 

 their plants to giue them flowers, and therefore let them runne all to flower, fo farre 

 ("pending themfelues thereby, that after they haue done flowring, they grow fo weake, 

 hauing out fpent themfelues, that they cannot pofiibly be preferued from the iniuries 

 ot the fucceeding Winter ; you (hall therefore keepe the kinde of any fort you are de- 

 lighted withall, if you carefully looke that too many branches doe not runne vp and 

 fpindle for flowers, but rather either cut fome of them downe, before they are run vp 

 too high, within two or three ioynts of the rootes ; or elfe pluck away the innermoft 

 leaues where it fpringeth forwards, which you fee in the middle of euery branch, be- 

 fore it be runne vp too high, which will caufe them to breake out the fafter into flips 

 and fuckers at the ioynts, to hinder their forward luxurie, and to preferue them 

 the longer : The other is, If you (hall perceiue any of your Gilloflower leaues to 

 change their naturall frefh verdure, and turne yellowifh, or begin to wither in anie 

 part or branch thereof, it is a fure ligne that the roote is infected with fome cancker 

 or rottennefle, and will foon (hew it felfe in all the reft of the branches, whereby the 

 plant will quickly be loft : to preferue it therefore, you (hall betime, before it be runne 

 too farre, (for otherwife it is impoflible to faue it) either couer all or moft of the 

 branches with frefh earth, or elfe take the faireft flippes from it, as many as you can 

 poflibly, and caft them into a pot or tubbe with water, and let them there abide for 

 two or three daies at the leaft : the firft way hath recouered many, being taken in time. 

 Thus you (hall fee them recouer their former rtifFenefle and colour, and then you may 

 plant them as you haue beene heretofore directed; and although many of them may 

 perifh, yet fhall you haue fome of them that will grow to continue the kinde againe. 

 The other or fecond way to encreafe Gilloflowers by planting, is, as I faid before, by 

 in-laying or laying downe the branches of them, and is a way of later inuention, and 

 as frequently vfed, not onely for the tawney or yellow Gilloflower, and all the varie- 

 ties therof, but with the other kinds of Gilloflowers, whereof experience hath (hewed 



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