The ordering of the Garden of Pleafure. 2 1 



rotate, bedew or fprinlde them often. From the feedes of thcfc Gilloflowers hath ri- 

 fen both white, red, blulli, ttamell, tawny lighter and ladder, marbled, fpcckled, Itri- 

 ped, flaked, and that in diuers manners, both (ingle and double flowers, as you lliall 

 fee them let downe in a more ample manner in the Chapter of Gilloflowers. And 

 thus much for their entreafe by the two wayes of planting and lowing: For as tor a 

 third way, by grafting one into or vpon another, I know none fuch to be true, nor to 

 be of any more worth than an old \Viues tale, l>oth nature, reafon, and experience, all 

 contelting againlt fuch an idle fancy, let men make what oltentation they pleafe. It 

 now relteth, that we allo (hew you the manner how to preferue them, as well in Sum- 

 mer from all noyfome and hurtfull things, as in the Winter and Spring from the fharp 

 and chilling colds, and the lharpe and bitter killing windcs in March. The hurttull 

 things in the Summer are efpecially thefe, too much heatc of the Sunne which fcorch- 

 eth them, which you mult be carefull to preuent, by placing boughes, boords, clothes 

 or mats, &c. before them, it they bee in the ground ; or clfe if they bee in pots, to 

 remoue into them into the lhadow, to giue them refrelhing from the heate, and giuc 

 them water alfo for their life : too much water, or too little is another annoyance, 

 which you mult order as you fee there is iult caufe, by withholding or giuing them wa- 

 ter gently out of a watering pot, and not calt on by difhfuls : Some alfo to water their 

 (iillorlowers, vie to fet their pots into tubbes or pots halfe full of water, that fo the 

 water may loake in at the lower holes in each flower pot, to giue moifture to the roots 

 of the Ciilloflowers onely, without calting any water vpon the leaues, and afluredly it 

 is an excellent way to moilten the rootes fo fufficiently at one time, that it doth faue a 

 great deale of paines many other times. Earwickes are a moft infeltuous vermine, to 

 (poyle the whole beauty of your flowers, and that in one night or day ; for thefe crea- 

 tures delighting to creepe into any hollow or fhadowie place, doe creepe into the 

 long greene pods of the Gilloflowers, and doe eate away the white bottomes of their 

 leaues, which are fweete, whereby the leaues of the flowers being loofe, doe either 

 fall away of themfelues before, or when they are gathered, or handled, or prefently 

 wither within the pods before they are gathered, and blowne away with the windc. 

 To auoide which inconuenience, many haue deuifed many waies and inuentions to 

 deltroy them, as pots with double verges or brimmes, containing a hollow gutter be- 

 tweene them, which being filled with water, will not fufFer thefe fmall vermine to 

 palTe ouer it to the Gilloflowers to fpoile them. Others haue vfed old (hooes, and fuch 

 like hollow things to bee fet by them to take them in : but the belt and molt vfuall 

 things now vfed, are eyther long hollow canes, or elfe beafts hoofes, which being 

 turned downe vpon (tickes ends fet into the ground, or into the pots of earth, will 

 foone drawe into them many Earwickes, lying hid therein from funne, winde, and 

 raine, and by care and diligence may foone bee destroyed, if euery morning and eue- 

 ning one take the hoofes gently off from the ftickes, and knocking them againft the 

 ground in a plain allie, lhake out all the Earwicks that are crept into them, which quick- 

 ly with ones foot may be trode to peeces. For fodain blaiting with thunder and lighte- 

 ning, or fierce (harp windes, &c. I know no other remedy, vnlefle you can couer 

 them therefrom when you firlt forefee the danger, but patiently to abide the lofle, 

 whatfoeuer fome haue aduifed, to lay litter about them to auoide blaiting ; for if any 

 lhall make tryall thereof, I am in doubt, he lhall more endanger his rootes thereby, be- 

 ing the Summer time, when any fuch feare of Waiting is, than any wife faue them from 

 it, or doe them any good. For the Winter preferuation of them, fome haue aduifed to 

 couer them with Bee-hiues, or elfe with fmall Willow (tickes, prickt croflewife into 

 the ground ouer your flowers, and bowed archvvife, and with litter laid thereon, 

 to couer the Gilloflowers quite ouer, after they haue beene fprinkled with fope afhes 

 and lyme mixt together : and this way is commended by fome that haue written there- 

 of, to be fuch an admirable defence vnto them in Winter, that neither Ants, nor 

 Snailes, nor Earwickes (hall touch them, becaufe of the fope afhes and lyme, and ney- 

 ther frofts nor Itorms (hall hurt them, becaufe of the litter which fo well will defend 

 them ; and hereby alfo your Gilloflowers will bee ready to flower, not onely in the 

 Spring very early, but euen all the Winter. But whofoeuer (hall follow thefe diredti- 

 ons, may peraduenture finde them in fome part true, as they are there fet downe for 

 the Winter time, and while they are kept dole and couered ; but let them bee allured, 



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