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The fecond are ca'l'd B'lZ.ar/'s ; 

 thefe have Flowers, ftrip'd or va- 

 riegated with three or tour dilfcrent 

 Colours. 



The third are call'd riqu?ttc's ; 

 thefe Flowers have always -i white 

 Ground, and are fpotted (or poun- 

 ced, as they call it) with icarlet, 

 red, purple, or other Colours. 



The fourth are call'd Fainted 

 LaMes ; theic have their Petals of 

 a red or purple Colour on the 

 upper- fide, and are white under- 

 neath. 



Of each of thefe Claffes there 

 are numerous Varieties j but chiefly 

 of the V'wjiette's, which of late 

 Years have been in greater Eilecm 

 than any of the other KiJuds. To 

 enumerate the Varieties of the 

 chiet Flo\vers in any one of thefe 

 ClalTcs, would be ncedicfs, iincc 

 every County produces new Flow- 

 ers almoft every Year; fo that 

 thofe Flowers, which at their 

 firft railing were greatly valu'd, 

 are in two or three Years become 

 fo common, as to be of little 

 Worth, cfpecially if they are de- 

 fefti'/e in any one Property. There- 

 fore f where Flowers are ib iiai:iie 

 to Mutability, citlier from the 

 Fancy of the Owner, or that bec- 

 ter Kinds are yearly produced from 

 Seeds, which, wirh ^ood Fiorifts, 

 always take Place of older or worfe 

 Flowers which are turnVl out of 

 the Garden, to make Room, for 

 them) it woul.l be but faperiiuous 

 in this Place to give a Lift of their 

 Xarncs, which are generally bor- 

 row'd cither fron-j the Names and 

 Titles of Nobicracn, or from the 

 Per ion's Name, cr Place of Abode, 

 who rais'd iti I iliall only her 

 Leave to mention two or three 

 •pid-de fc vibVi Sorts, by way of 

 Introdu(5ti)pi}, and Ibrtl. then pro- 



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1. Caryophy-llusj alt'disj ma- 

 jor. C. B. TheClove-gilliflower. 



2. CAKyroHYLL'js J maximusy 

 ruber. C. B. The large Ballard 

 Clove-giiliflower. 



3. Caryophyllus ; maximusy 

 nltcry lato porri folio. H. R. Far. 

 The broad-leav'd Carnation or Gil- 

 liflower. 



The firfl: of thefe Sorts is the 

 true Clove- gillifiovoery which hath 

 been for a long time fo much in 

 Ufe for making a Cordial Syrup, 

 ^c- of which there axe two or 

 three Varieties commonly brought 

 to the Markets, which differ great- 

 ly in their Goodnefs i fomc of them 

 having very little Scent, when 

 compared with the true Sort: The 

 large Kind hath been much plen- 

 tier fome Years fmce than at pre- 

 fcnt : This ufcd to burft the Pods, 

 and their Petals hang loping about 

 in fjch a manner, that the People 

 did not care to buy them in the 

 Market, which was the Reafon it 

 jiath not been cultivated fo much 

 q\ late. The third Sort is only to 

 be found in fuch fmall Gardens as 

 raife great Qviantities of thefe Flow-r 

 ers from Seed to fupply the Mar^ 

 kets in the Spring ot the Year : 

 This being a very hardy Kind, and 

 their Leaves being fo broad, and 

 the Plants ib vigorous, that the 

 People who arc wholly unacquaint^ 

 cA with thefe Flowers, make 

 choice of theie as the mod promi- 

 ling Plants 5 whereas they icldoni 

 have more than four or five Leaves 

 in a Flower, and thofe are very 

 fmall, and ill-colour'd : The firfl of 

 thefe, %;iz.. the Clove- giWnower, is 

 worthy of a Place in every good 

 Garden ; but of late there have 

 been ^Q many new Kinds pror 

 duc'd from Seeds, which are very 

 . fine and lar^e, that moft of the 



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