the lower part which is broad abideth under the up- 

 per face of the Earth. 



Thofe Tulips now growing to be three yeares old 

 ( yet fome at the fecoiid ycare,if the ground and aire 

 be correfpondent ) are to be taken up out of the 

 ground ( wherein you fliall find they have run deep) 

 and be new planted after they have been a little dry'd 

 and cleanfed either in the fame or another ground, 

 again placing them reafonable neere one to another, 

 according to their greatneffe , which being planted 

 and covered over with earth again, of about an inch 

 or tvvo thickneffe, may be left untaken up again two 

 yeares longer, if you will , or elfe removed every 

 yeare after,as you pleafe, and thus by tranfplanting 

 them in their due feafon ( which is ilill at the end 

 ofja/jsorat the beginning of ^Augnji^ or there- 

 abouts ) you fhall according to the feed and foyle , 

 have fome come to bearing in the firft year after 

 their flowering, fome have had them in the fourth: 

 (but that hath been but few and none of the beft , or 

 in. a rich ground ) fome in the fixth and feventh, and 

 fome peradventure not untill the eighth or tenth 

 yeare. But remember that-as-rhe roots grow greater 

 that in the planting you give them the more roomc 

 to be diftant one from another, or elfe the one will 

 hinder ( if not rot ) the other. P 



The feed of the Precoces do not thrive and come 

 forward fo faft as the Media's or Serotines , nor do 

 give any off-fets in their running down,as the-Media's 

 do , which ufually leave a fmall Root at the head of 

 the other that is run down every yearc ; and bcfides 

 are more tender and require more care and attea- 

 dance then Media's, and therefore they arc the more 



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