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and carnations or gridelines or murreys. The single colours 

 with blue cups or bottoms, and purple chives will most of them 

 parrach or stripe and will stand two years un removed when the 

 roots are old." 



A further catalogue of the contents of the flower garden at 

 Bettisfield in 1660 is chiefly a list of its tulips. Each bed is 

 mentioned, and every row of bulbs taken separately, and the 

 name of each bulb, as many as thirteen ranks, all carefully 

 arranged. But other flowers also found corners, although not 

 allowed beds to themselves. This was another bed at Bettisfield. 

 " In the middle of this bed is one Double Crown Imperial. 

 In the end are six rows of Iris raised from seed by Rea ; — also 

 polyanthuses and daffodils. In the four corners of this second 

 bed are four roots of good anemonies." In one there was a 

 preponderance of Narcissus, all described " Belles du Val 

 narcissi, all yellow." . . " Belle Selmane narcissi, right dear 

 ones," and so on. " The border under the South Wall in the 

 great garden is full of good anemones, and near the musk-rose 

 are two roots of the daffodil of Constantinople from Rea, and 

 a Martagon pomponium." These extracts show that Thomas 

 Hanmer was a friend of the gardener and author Rea. He 

 made a catalogue of choice plants, "yet such as will bear our 

 climate," with short "directions for their preservation and 

 increase, not meddling with their medical qualities," and it is 

 believed that these notes were given to Rea, who miade use 

 of them in his book. 



Sir Thomas was also a friend of Evelyn and imparted 

 some of his knowledge of plants to him. On August 22nd, 

 1668, he writes to Evelyn, enclosing him some papers: "They 

 are but common observations, but true ones, and most of 

 the famed secrets for meliorating flowers will not prove so." 

 In 1671 he writes again, this time sending Evelyn some 

 plants : — 



"Bettisfield, Angst. 21st, 1671. 



" Sir, I send you herewith some rootes of severall sorts : 

 the bear's ears and some of the anemones and ranunculus 

 are very good, but the tulips (except Agat Hanmer and the 



