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ting Tulips ; they are apt to give many off-fets, and therefore re- 
quire to be taken up and every yeer freed from them, and the old 
roots fet again five or fix together , that they may make the better 
fhew when they are in flower,, the firft isa little tender, and would 
be defended from Frofts in Winter,the other are more hardy, and the 
common kinds will profper in any place and increafe too much; 
CHAP, XkL 
Orchis five Satyrium. 
He Fly- Orchis,or Bee- flower Satyrions, for variety may be in- 
— ~— ferted; althoughthey grow wild if many places, they aré 
: received mto Gardens for the beauty of the flowers, efpeci- 
ally thofe called 
; Mellitia five apiferas 
He Bee- ‘sora grows tiot above fix inches high, with three or four 
fomething narrow green leaves ; the ftalk bearech three or four 
flowers one above another, each containing four leaves; three of 
them are {mall and fharp-pointed, ef a bluth-colour, and turn up to- 
wards the topof the ftalk; the fourthisround, and in form and co- 
four folikeunto a Bee, that any one unacquainted therewith may 
takeit for aliving Bee fucking of a flower; the roots areround, two 
joyned together ,and after it hath born flowers, one of-them perifheth, 
and the other remaineth hard andfound, 
Orchis Spegodes. 
Nats Satyrion hath leaves fomewhat larger than the Jaft, and the 
J ftalk higher; the flowers grow in the fame manner , but differ 
in that the lower leafis in this like a Grat, or great long Fly, the roots 
like thofe of the Bee-flower, | , 3 
Orchis Myodes. 
FY Orches isin alt things like the laft, except the flowers, which of 
this are fmaller thameither of the former, and the lower leaf like 
a Fly with leggs, a lift of Afh-colour crofsing theback, and the 
lower part black, There are many other varieties of Orchis and Sa- 
tyrions, fome bearing pretty flowers, as the male and female handed 
Satyrions, che Butter-fly orchis, the {rew-white , the all-red , the 
yellow, and divers that are fpotted, all which are found wild in divers 
places of the South and Welt parts of England, 
The time of their flowering is commonly about the middle of May. 
a ; They 
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