The Garden of plcnfant Flowers. 







grow pretty (trong, able to abide the fharpc Winter in their nonage, in vling fome 

 little care to couer them loofely with fomc fearne, or furfe, or bcane hamc, or ftraw, 

 or any fuch, which yet mult not lye clofe vpon them, nor too farre from them neither. 



The next Spring ut'ter the fowing, if you will, but it is better if you (lay vntill Au- 

 gult, you may then remoue them, and fet them in order by rowes, with fufficient di- 

 Itance one from another, where they may abide, vntill you fee what manner of flower 

 each plant will beare, which you may difpofe of according to your minde. 



Many of them being thus ordered (if your mould be fine, loofe, and frefh, not fto- 

 nie, clayiih, or from a middin) will beare flowers the fecond yeare after the fowing, 

 and moll or all of them the third yeare, if the place where you fowe them, be not an- 

 noyed with the fmoake of Brewers, Dyers, or Maultkils, which if it be, then will they 

 neuer thriue well. 



Thus much haue I thought good to fet downe, to incite fome of our owne Nation 

 to be indultrious; and to helpe them forward, haue giuen fuch rules of directions, that 

 I doubt not, but they will vpon the tryall and view of the variety, proceede as well in 

 the fowing of Anemones as of Tulipas. 



I cannot (Gentlewomen) withold one other fecret from you, which is to informe 

 you how you may fo order Anemones, that after all others ordinarily are part, you 

 may haue them in flower for two or three moneths longer then are to be feene with 

 any other, that vfeth not this courfe I direct you. 



The ordinary time to plant Anemones, is moft commonly in Auguft, which will 

 beare flower fome peraduenture before Winter, but moft vfually in February, March, 

 and Aprill, few or none of them abiding vntill May ; but if you will keepe fome roots 

 out of the ground vnplanted, vntill February, March, and Aprill, and plant fome at 

 one time, and fome at another, you (hall haue them beare flower according to their 

 planting, thofe that mall be planted in February, will flower about the middle or end 

 of May, and fo the reft accordingly after that manner : And thus may you haue the 

 pleafure of thefe plants out of their naturall feafons, which is not permitted to be en- 

 ioyed in any other that I know, Nature being not fo prone to bee furthered by art in 

 other things as in this. Yet regard, that in keeping your Anemone rootes out of the 

 ground for this purpofe, you neither keep them too dry, nor yet too moift, for fprou- 

 ting or rotting; and in planting them, that you fet them not in too open a funny place, 

 but where they may be fomewhat (hadowed. 



The Place. 



I (hall not need to fpend much time in relating the feuerall places of thefe 

 Anemones, but onely to declare that the mort of them that haue not beene 

 raifed from feed, haue come from Constantinople to vs ; yet the firft broad 

 leafed or yellow Anemone, was firft found in Portugall, and from thence 

 brought into thefe parts. And the firft purple Starre Anemone in Germa- 

 nic, yet was the fame fent among others from Conftantinople alfo. And 

 the firlt thin cut leafed Anemone came firft out of Italy, although many of 

 that fort haue come likewife from Conltantinople. And fo haue the double 

 red or Scarlet Anemones, and the great double blufti, which I firft had by 

 the gift of M r . Humfrey Packington of Worcefterfhire Efquire, at Haruing- 

 ton. 



The Time. 



The times of their flowring are fufficiently expreffed in the defcripti- 

 ons, or in the rules for planting. 



The Names. 



The Turkilh names whereby the great double broad leafed kindes haue 

 beene fent vnto vs, were Giul Catamer, and Giul Catamer lale ; And Bi- 

 nizade, Binizante, and Galipoli lale for the thinne cut leafed Anemones. 

 All Authors haue called them Anemones, and are the true Herbce vend. 



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