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Chap. XI. EPL OR A 
“had two other varieties which came from Portucall, but both of 
them fo tender that they would not abide in our cold Countrey, 
The firft flowreth about the end of February, the fecond of ‘leffér 
a fortnight before it, and the great late flowring kind, not untill 
May, z ’ ares 
They all increafe by the root like Daffodils, being very apt to off- 
fet ; they lofe their fibres, and therefore may be taken up and kept 
dry untill Autumn, and then choice being made of the biggeftiroots 
to fet, the reft may be caft away, for a few of thefe will be fafficient 
to furnih a garden, efpecially of the leffer and common kind, 
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CHAP, XI, 
Ffyacinthus five Jacinthus. 
a He Hyacinth, or Facinth, is of divers forts, and many of them 
of {mall efteem, we will make choice of the beft, and fet 
them down in order, beginning with that fo much defired by 
all Florifts, 7 
Hyacinthus Indicus tuberofa radice. 
~ Baek, ame Indian tuberous-rooted Hyacinth hath a thick tuberous 
knobbed root, formed into feveral heads, with many thick 
fibres at the bottoms of them, from thofe heads rife up feveral 
ftrong and tall ftalks, fet with divers fair, long, and broad green 
leaves, joyned at the bottom clofe unto the ftalk, where they are 
biggeft, growing {maller and {maller even to the top thereof, where 
ftand many fair large flowers, each compofed of fix white leaves, 
fpread open like thofe of a white Daffodil, with fome fhort threds in 
the middle, and of a ftrong fweet {cent : there is another of this 
kind that differeth only from this, in that it is Jeffer in all the parts 
thereof, : see * 
Fhyacinthys Botroides major five Mufcari flore flavo.- 
He ercat yellow Musk Grape flower, or yellow Mufcari, from a long 
er rook. with man Kee fat fibres underneath (which do not 
perith as chofe of many _of the other Facinths do) {pring up five 
or fix leaves, which at firft are reddith, and after of a whitifh green 
colour, hollow, or guttered on the upper fide, fometimes from an old 
~ root that hath ftood long unremoved, cometh up three or four weak 
ftalks, commonly lying on the leaves, loaden towards the top with 
many flowers, ike lle bots of af yellow color, and of « Mase 
{weet fcent. / 3 
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