'areas often promoted to better , as the degenerate 

 to worft,as I am very credibly informed , by perfons. 

 that proteffe themfelves to have feen the experience * 

 The kernells of the Burgundy Pear has brought a no- 

 ble alteration and produceth a pear farre beyond that 

 excellent kind:Peaches and Malecotones doe ordina- 

 rily the like , fo that by feed is thought to be their- 

 belt propagation. 



Our Gardiners in choof.ng the feed of fioek-Gylln 

 flowers to mike them bring double (locks, take their 

 feed from fuch tops as bring fine leaves in their 

 flo.ve", cf ecially if it be one itrip't; but Mr. P. fayes 

 thofe mat bear double feeds , cannot be diltinguiilied 

 from the other , and I have reafon to beleive him, 

 for futh as chufe their feed this way, doe not find 

 chat it anfwers their expectation. 



For Tulips trm are early , or Precoces , the pur- 

 ple fays Mr. Par^nfon^ I have found to be the beft r 

 next thereto is the purple with white edges 9 and fo 

 likewife the red, with yellow edges ;but each of them 

 will bring molt of their o-vn Colours. For the Me- 

 dia's , take thofe colours that are light , rather white 

 then yellow , and purple , then red , yea white , nor 

 yellow, purple, not red: but tbefe again to be fpotted 

 is the bed, and the more the better ; but withall or 

 aboveall, in thefe refpeel: the bottome of the flower 

 (which in the precox Tulipa you cannot, becaufe you 

 fhall find no other ground in them but yellow) for if 

 the flover be white or whitifh , fpotted , or edged 

 •and iiraked , and the bottome blew or purple (which 

 is found in the Holias, and in the Cloath of Silver, 

 this is beyond all other the molt excellent, and out of 

 <nieftion the choifeft of an hundred, to beget the 

 greateii and moft pleafant variety , and .ramie , and 



