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flowers, for from thence fpringeth all your hope; when you fee their 
flowers , thofe you diflike, caft away, or elfe if you have convenience 
fend them to the flower-market, the common Emtory of trafh and 
tetufe; and referve the reft for your own delight, 
CHAP, XXXII, 
Primula Verts, ex Paralyfis. 
| Rimrofes and Cowflips ae Englifh flowers , and well 
known toevery Milk-maid, being the common ornas 
ments of Meadows and Paftures; yet there are fome 
varieties of them entertained in Gardens, out of which 
we will cull the beft ; and leave the reft to thofe chat - 
delight in fuch commontoys, We have now other 
kinds of Primrofes and Cow/lips, that bear diverfities of red flowers, 
more efteemed than thofe of our own Country ; but firft we will be- 
gin with fome of our old acquaintance ; and then proceed to thofe of 
ter difcovery, 
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Primula Vers flore pleno vulgaris. 
pes common double Garden Primrofe is fo well known, that it is 
fufficient onely tonameit, but were it not fo common inevery 
Country-womans Garden, it would be more refpected ; for indeed it 
is a {weet and dainty double flower, and the chieteft of all our Eng- 
lifhkinds, = 
Paralyfis flore geminato. 
ry ae Cowflip hofe in hofe differeth from that of the field, in refpeé 
the flowers aré ingeminated, one ftanding within the other, ma- 
ny on one ftalk , the fame in colour and fathion with thofe of the 
common kind, 
Paralyfis flore pleno. 
CT ede Cow/flip differeth from the common kind, in that itis 
igger, and beareth many fair thick and double flowers on one 
ftalk, of the fame Gold yellow colour with ths former. 
Paralyfis flore pleno viridante. 
THe double green Cowflip differeth from the laft , in that the fow- 
ersot this are of yellowifh green colour, but as thick and double, 
and thisis the rareft and moft efteemed of all our Englifh kinds, : 
There 
