(Chap. XXTIL : : FF A, OR A. 
awith:the-feveral.varieties 6f chéfe'Flowers, mdikes'a oallatic thew, for 
theinftalks are‘tallyand bear plentifully fair Jarge'Flowers, comuion- 
Ayeconfitting 6f onc row or'pale of broad leaves, ‘witha haity ‘head, ‘or 
tbuttonin themiddle, which after the Flowers are: pat “grows ‘biz 
and ‘long, yielding ftore of finall Flat brown: feeds, ‘wra ped ‘in down’; 
the green leaves are larger, grow ranker, and are more in tumiber 
than thofe of the double kinds; the roots much bigger, and aptet 
10 increafe; and!befides the rf Varieties of reds, fearlers, ‘pur les; 
‘whites, Peach, and Rofe-colonrs, both plain and matked shhhiee 
ithereare fi me« hers raifed from -the ‘feeds of thefe that bear gal- 
4 dic Foe OG al 
olours, as red, fcarler and‘purple;thefe — 
either iplainorftriped forts I ‘have ‘feen more refentbling the flow- 
cersofithe doubleJatifelias, than'thofe with narrow leaves, for thefe 
confift of many fomething broad ‘leaves, having no plufh or thram 
iOfleaves, but a fmallihead‘or button in the middle, fome having bitt 
‘two rows of leaves, others three, and fome fo thick arid'double; that 
the head an stheimiddle'is not to be feen, ‘untill the Flowers fall, and 
yet thefe ‘kinds (efpecially the thinner forts) perfe@ t ic feeds, from 
which many fine Flowers may be prodticed, thefe are called Herma- 
Phrodites, tor that they pattake of both kinds, 2s having the roots 
and leaves of the narrow, and the flowers of the double broad-leayed 
Anemones, ; 
» Alllchele Anemones, both doubleand fingle, bring forth their bea 
tiful Flowers commonly in arch, April and May, fooner or later, 
according to the State of the Spring, and time of fettinig their 
TOOt, 
_ In the handling and ordering of the rarer forts of thefe excellent 
flowers, fome more thai common care is tobe takeni 5 for if the 
foil , fituation, time and manner of planting and taking up; be not 
exactly obferved, the Flowers will neither be fair, nor will thé roots 
ofper and increafe, but on the contrary rot, and confi ume, e[pecial- 
Iyall the beft double kinds with narrow leaves , the ordinary, add 
thofe with fingle Flowers are more hardy, 
The firtt thing therefore to be confidered, is the foil whereiti 
they are to be planted, which muft be fat arid rich, the earth not too 
light, arich {andy lome earth is the be(t, wherein fome Neats and 
Sheeps dung-with a little lime hath. been tempered, and layen long on 
a heap, often turned over; fo that the dung be fully rotted, and well 
mixed with che earth, which being firft fifted through a Wyer Sive, 
make a bed thereof half a yard deep at the leaft, in fome place that 
js not too hot in the Sun, but fomething fhadowed . then about the 
end of September , placé the roots of thof€ Anemenes with broxd 
leaves thevein, fix or eight inches afunder, and three fingers deep in 
the ground, fetting that fide upward where you perceive {mall emi- 
nences to put forth leaves; thofe with narrow leaves are tobe hande 
led in the fame manner, only differing in the time of their fecting, f 
thefe muft be kept out of the ground in fome dry place untill the 
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