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This is a generall Rule in all Tulips , that all the 

 while they beare bud or leafe , they will not beate 

 {lower, whether they be feedlings, or the ofr-fets of 

 elder Roots, or the Roots themfelves,that have here- 

 tofore borne flowers ; but when they beare a fecond 

 leafe breaking out of thefirft, it is a certain figne 

 rh it it will then bear a flower, unlefle Come cafualty 

 tinder it ; as Froft or Raine , to fpoile or nip the 

 bud , o: other untimely accident befall it. 



To fet or plant the belt and bearing Tulips fome 

 what deeper then other Roots, I hold it thebeft way. 

 For if the ground be either cold or lye too openly in 

 the cold Northern aire, they will be the better de- 

 fended therein , and not fufrer the froft or cold to 

 peirce them fo Coon , for the deep frofts and fnowes 

 do pinch thePrecoces cheifly, if they be too neer the 

 iippe.moft cruft of the earth, and therefore many with 

 gcod fucceffe cover over their ground before winter 

 with either frefh or old rotten dung, and that will 

 marvelloufly prefer ve them. The like courfe you 

 may hold with feedlings* to caufe them to come on 

 the forwarder, fo that it be after the firft yeares (ow- 

 ing and not till then. 



To remove Tulips after they have (hot forth their 

 Fibres or finall fprings which grow under the greater 

 roufld Roots ( .that is from September until! they be 

 in flower) is very dangerous, for by removing 

 them when they have taken fafl hold in the ground , 

 you do hinder them in the bearing out their flower , 

 and befides put them in hazard to perifn , at leaft to 

 be put back from bearing a while after, as often I 

 have proved by experience , but when they are now 

 rifen to flower , and fo for any time after , you may 

 fafely take them up if you will , and remove them 



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