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fo in degree* the meaner in beauty you fbw , the 

 letter fhall your plc.Uure in wv.ietiesbe: Befiovnot 

 your time in lowing red or yellow 1 ulip?-feed, o: the 

 diverfe mixtures of them , they will (as 1 have found 

 by experience) feldomc: be worth your paines. 1 he 

 Serolim being not beautifull , brings forth no fpeci- 

 all varietye : Terr arias lib. 3, chap. 7. commends 

 the Serolina for feed , (but I find he makes but two, 

 forts; Prxcoces and Serolin's) and among them 

 the white , with the black purple, or blew bottomes 

 or Scarlet with skycoloured bottome inclining topur- 

 ple;for both them vvill (tayes he) bring Tulips mark'c 

 with varietye and hatidfomheffe : But Tulips with- 

 out a blackifh bottome are noe good breeders of va- 

 rious coloured flowers. 



The two leffer Spaniili baibrdDaffodills^the leaves 

 of Mitch are of a whitifh green colour, one alittle 

 broader then the other , and the- flowers pure white , 

 bending down their their heads , that they almoft 

 ;ouch the Stalk again, giye ^eed from which fp.rings 

 much varietye , fe.v or none keeping either colour oc 

 height with their mother plant. 

 . The feeds of divers So a breads , by name the Ror 

 jgoao Sot bred wich round leaves , thq. Autumnall I- 

 vy leaved Sowbread, fome fib: ers-de-lis, i and many 

 4brts of Bears-ear.es doe :he like in pro^uceing admi- 

 rable variety. 



As for Anemones , iake't from Mr. <P. and our 

 common dayly experience that there is not fo great 

 variety of double flowers raifed from the feeds of 

 thinne leave* d £ nemones as, from the broad leaved 

 ones. Of the Latifolias,che doubleOrange-tawny feed 

 being fowen , yeildeth pretty ^varietyes, but the pur- 

 f les 3 or reds 3 or crimfqns „ yeild {mall varietyes, bujt 



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