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Northerne ayrr, they will lie the better defended therein, and not fuffer the frorts or 

 cold to pierce them to hvmc: tor the deepe trolls and fnowes doc pinch the Pnrcoces 

 chiefly, it" they bee too neare the vppermoll crull ot" the earth; and therefore many, 

 with good fuccelTe, couer oner their ground before Winter, with either frefh or old 

 rotten dung, and that will imruelloully preferue them. The like courfe you may hold 

 with feed lings, to caufe them to come on the forwarder, fo it bee after the firft yearcs 

 fowing, and not till then. 



To remoue Tulipas after they haue mot forth their fibres or fmall firings, which 

 grow vnder the great round rootes, (that is, from September vntill they bee in flower) 



very dangerous; for by remouing them when they haue taken fart hold in the 

 ground, you doe both hinder them in the bearing out their flower, and befides, put 

 them in hazzard to perifh, at leafi to bee put backe from bearing for a while after, as 

 oftentimes I haue proued by experience : But when they are now rifen to flower, and 

 fo for any time after, you may lately take them vp if you will, and remoue them 

 without danger, if you haue any good regard vnto them, vnlefle it be a young bearing 

 roote, which you lhall in fo doing much hinder, becaufe it is yet tender, by reafon it 

 now beareth his firlt flower. But all Tulipa roots when thnr rtalke and leaues are dry, 

 may moll lately then be taken vp out of the ground, and be fo kept (fo that they lye in 

 a dry, and not in a moill place) for fixe moneths without any great harmc : yea I haue 

 knowne them that haue had them nine moneths out of the ground, and haue done rea- 

 fonable well, but this you mull vnderrtand withall, that they haue not been young but 

 elder rootes, and they haue been orderly taken vp and preferued. The dryer you keep 

 a Tulipa roote the better, fo as you let it not lye in the funne or winde, which will 

 pierce it and fpoile it. 



Thus Gentlewomen for your delights, (for thefe pleafures are the delights of lea- 

 fure, which hath bred your loue & liking to them, and although you are herein predo- 

 minant, yet cannot they be barred from your beloued, who I doubt not, wil fhare with 

 you in the delight as much as is fit) haue I taken this paines, to fet downe, and bring to 

 your knowledge fuch rules of art, as my fmall skill hath enabled mee withall concer- 

 ning this fubiecl, which of all other, feemed fitteft in this manner to be enlarged, both 

 tor the varietie of matter, and excellency of beautie herein, and alfo that thefe rules 

 fet forth together in one place, might faue many repetitions in other places, fo that 

 for the planting and ordering of all other bulbous rootes, and the fowing the feedes of 

 them, you may haue recourfe vnto thefe rules, (tanquatn ad norman & examen) which 

 may ferue in generall for all other, little diuerfitie of particulars needing exception. 



The Place. 



The greater Tulipas haue firft beene fent vs from Conftantinople, and 

 other parts of Turkic, where it is faid they grow naturally wilde in the 

 Fields, Woods, and Mountaines; as Thracia, Macedonia, Fontus about 

 the Euxine Sea, Cappadocia, Bithynia, and about Tripolis and Aleppo in 

 Syria alfo: the lefler haue come from other feuerall places, as their names 

 doe decipher it out vnto vs; as Armenia, Perlia, Candye, Portugall, 

 Spaine, Italy, and France. They are all now made denizens in our Gar- 

 dens, where they yeeld vs more delight, and more encreafe for their pro- 

 portion, by reafon of the culture, then they did vnto their owne naturals. 



The Time. 



Thefe doe flower fome earlier, fome later, for three whole moneths to- 

 gether at the lealt, therein adorning out a Garden moll glorioufly, in that 

 being but one kinde of flower, it is fo full of variety, as no other (except the 

 Daffodils, which yet are not comparable, in that they yeeld not that allu- 

 ring pleafant variety) doe the like befides. Some of the Praecwes haue beene 

 in flower with vs, (for I fpeake not of their owne naturall places, where the 

 Winters are milder, and the Spring earlier then ours) in the moneth of la- 

 nuary, when the Winter before hath beene milde, but many in February, 



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