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nor does he particularise the rare black sort. 

 Brilliancy of hue, on the contrary, he 

 commends, and suggests when the flower 

 discovers a tendency toward a sadder colour, 

 that it should be taken up just before the 

 flowering season and laid in the sun. 



He describes the Persian and Indian 

 jessamines, the Spanish broom, by which he 

 means the cultivated yellow variety, and the 

 double flowering peach and cherry ; and 

 among bedding or bordering and other plants, 

 the lily, the hyacinth, the anemone, the lily 

 of the valley, auriculas, primroses, cowslips. 

 The Indian Jucca (or Yucca) he also men- 

 tions ; and his pages clearly demonstrate the 

 rapid development which maritime discovery 

 and horticultural enterprise had imparted to 

 the British Flora and Sylva in the second 

 moiety of the seventeenth century. 



The example and encouragement of men 

 like Evelyn in his day, and Worlidge in his, 

 contributed to the formation of a public 

 taste, which in the succeeding generations 

 received further expansion and refinement 

 at the hands of the friends and contem- 



