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choice fowers, fo purpofely we infectothers more vulgar with fick: 
anefs, by taking up theroots a little before they come to flower, and 
laying them in the Sun, to abate their luxury, and caufe them to 
come berter marked the year following ;. this I have often done with 
ftrong and lufty roots of the Pafs Owdimard, Pafs Cittadel, Pals Hes 
ron, Agot Robine, Turloone, Widows, and fuch like ordinary flowers, 
and commonly found the fuccefs anfwer my expectation in many,and 
fome of rlrem to come fo well marked, that they might be Sper 
for much better flowers than theyare, efpecially if a new name be 
put upon them, .as fome flower-merchants about Lendomufe todo, 
_ The next thing to be confidered , is the manner of raifing new 
varieties, a practice fit for the belt Florifls , and this is effected 
chiefly , by fowing the feeds of fome choice flowers , 2s alfo by 
the changing of off-fets, and the fecret working of nature upon 
divers felt-colours, 
- For feeds, youmatt be fure to make choice of fuch flowers as have 
ftrong ftalks, and the feed-veffel chree {quare, of fuch kinds as are 
moft conftantly well marked, and fuch as have che bortoms and Ta- 
mis, either blew or purple, which is rarely tobe found in the Pra- 
coces, whofe bottoms are commonly white or yellow; yet cthereis 
one excellent kind before deferibed by the name of the Omen, that 
aptly marketh with three colours, and hath the bottom and Tamis 
both blew, from the feeds whereof doubtlefs many fine varieties 
may beraifed ; next unto this the Florizamte , Morillion Cramofine, 
Perifhot, Admiral Encufen, and the reft of the well-marked Prececes 
arenot without hope; but from the Vice- Roy , and thevarieties of 
Edgers, few better than the originals are to be expected, 
The Medias,or middle flowering Tulips, afford many more excel- 
lent varieties fit for this purpofe, as the Adoratea of Helland, Car: 
thago, Paragon ferow, Doctor Bolfon, le ie Florifon, Royal Tudart, 
Orient Virgin, Diana, Angelica, Cedanellas Prince[s Turgiana, all 
the Brabafons, bew Anvers, and divers others : - All thefe named 
being well-marked flowers,of different colours , with blew or purple 
bottoms and Tamis, not apt to run, butabiding conftant to the 
laft ; and therefore all flowers of hope,. andfuch as few lovers and 
collectors of flowers are without. 7 
Commonly we make choice of {uch we intend for feed, when they 
are in flower,but in fo doing we often fail of our purpofe, for that the 
roots lofe their fibres, and the ftalks dry before the feed s come tobe 
half ripe; to prevent which, make choice of the ftrongeft roots you 
have, of fuch flowers youdefire to feed , and fet them in that patt 
of your Garden moft expofed to the Sun, fix orfeven inches in the 
ground ;_ by which means you may gain good ripe feeds, from almoft 
any flower, as] have found by experience, 
_- About the middle of Fuly,, fooner.or later, as the Summer. is 
