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feveral thick skins, folded within each other, and covered with a 
thin brown Coat , which is every year renewed, and the old 
caft off, 
And now having done with the general, we will proceed to a more 
particular defeription ; and firft of the Precoces,or early flowering Tu- 
lips, the varieties whereot are chiefly of two forts or manners , thofe 
ot the firft or more common rank, are called Edgers, andareei- — 
ther Red, Carnation, Crimfon, or Scarlet, deeper or lighter 5 with 
yellow, ftraw-colour, or white edges, or elfe fadder or paler violet, 
gtaydeline, or murey-purple, with greater or leffer white edges , of 
thefe there are a multitude of diverfities , but moft of them now 
little efteemed , we will therefore fet down fome few of the bett , 
and then give you a more plentiful variety of thofe of the other and 
better fort ; which although they areof the fame, or like colours 
with ‘the former, yet notably differ in manner of marking, thefe 
being either ftriped, feathered, garded, or variably marbled, with 
twoor more colours in each flower, as by the following defcriprions 
isexprefled , bucfirftof the Edgers, 
~ Priecoces early flowering Tulips. 
Ye Winter Dake, fo called, in refpett it fowereth commonly in 
= Winter, that is before che tenth of March, at which time the 
pring beginners ithathavery low ftalk,. and beareth a fhort lea- 
ved- flower,’ of a deep.ved colour, with large! yellow edges, a round 
yellow bottom, and brown Tamis, 0 
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“General Dwke flowereth later, and isa faiver and better flower; of a 
bright red orCherry-colour, with large and well divided yellow edges, 
the bottom and Tamis like che former; there are divers forts of Dukes 
fome deeper, others paler, but all of them are red, witli yellow edges. 
whereof thefe two are efteemed the beft, : 
Gentral Brancion is a trong uptight flower, of a bright Scarler- 
colour, . with even and well-parted buttet-colour edges, which before 
the leaves fall turn white; the bottomof the colour of the edges, 
and the Tamis pu ple 
Pretty Betty is alfoagood Edger, the flower is of a bright Crim- 
fon, with pale butter-coloured edges, which foon turn white ; it 
> 8 tea bottoin, of the colour of the edges, and blew 
© Dwiches Brancion is @fair large Mower, swith long Feud: pointed 
leaves, of a deep shining Scar et-colour, with deep butter-colour 
el the bottom large, core and pale yellow, with Tamis of 
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5 Lat Verineisan early flower, and ranked with the beft Balers; ofa 
ts <a fine 
