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: beauty, and onely received for variety, the dull and heavy colour — 
ferving to fet off, and caufe others to feem the more glorious. 
- Lilium Rubrun. 
B Sc red Lily is a vulgar flower, and many forts thereof common 
ineyery Country-womans Garden, the which are feldom ac- 
cepted by any Florifts, There are three other kinds which are of fome 
regard, in refpect they bear fairer flowers than any of the othér com- 
mon forts; we willinfert thofeonly , and pafs over the reftas re- 
gardlefs plebeans not worth mentioning. 
Lilium Cruentum bulbiferum: 
He fiery red bulbed Lily rifethup from a great white fcaly root 
 (asallthe Lelies have) witha ftrong tall ftalk, fet with many 
long dark-green leaves, and at the top adorned with many fair large 
flowers, each compofed of fix broad thick leaves, of a fiery red co- 
Jour at the tops, and towards,the botcoms.of. an orenge-colour,with 
_ {mall black {pecks, bearing among the flowers. andialong:the ftalk, 
divers bulbes like little roots ,, which-being fet... in. time: will: bring 
forth flowers like unto thofe of the original. ; 
Lilium Rubrum flore pleno. 
Ee double red: Lily, is like; man.the-lormer, inset, ftalk and 
~ leaves, but without bulbes; not fobig’ nor of fodark’a green. 
colour; it commonly beareth many Orenge-coloured fingle flowers 
on one ftalk, with many fmall brown foaaks on the infides thereof, 
and fome times but one fair double flower , as if the leaves of many 
flowers were-united inone, which although 'it be but accidental, yer’ 
it hapneth in this kind, more.frequently than in-any-ether red-Lil 15 
for if you haye many.roots of .this-fort , youwillalways have fome: 
double flowers, and many, more.in-fome years than: in othets, 
Lilium Luteum. 
| yellow Lily is like the laft double Lily, bur taller and bigger, 
the flowers are many on one ftalk, and wholly of a fine Gold- 
yellow colour; thisismoreefteemed thanany of the former), 
Lilium Album... a 
fy white Lily, affordeth three diverfities, two befides the-com- 
mon kinde,. which are of more: eftimation than any-of the red 
Liljes , and for the beauty. of zhe one 5 andrarity \of the other, de- 
ferve. tobe regarded... 
Lili “a | 
