Chap. XXXIL FLOR AZ 
_ ‘Thereare divers other forts both of Prisrofes and Com/lips plan- 
ted in fome Gardens, as the double green Primrofe, and another that 
hath the outer row of leaves green, with a {mall pale yellow flower in 
the midft, the fingle green Cow/lip, the tufted Cowflip, the fanta- 
ftick Cow/lip,or Fackanapes on hore back; the Cowflip with the jagged 
hofe, and another with a large hofe divided in five points; and purled 
about the edges with a {mall fingle yellow flower ftanding therein ¢ 
allwhich I leave to thofe that delight in them; and pafs to others 
of more efteem, 
Primula Veris flore rubro. 
"[ red Primrofeis of a newer date; more beauty; and greater va- 
riety than the former 5 inroots leaves and fathion it differeth not 
from the common fingle field Primyofe, only the tops of the roots, 
and bottomes of the ftalks, are of a reddith colour} but the, greateft 
difference is in the colours of the flowers, there being almoft twenty 
diverficies of reds, fomedeeper and others lighter, trom bloud red 
to pale Pink colour ; fome are of a blewith Rofe-colour, fader and 
paler, fome brick-colour, fome Dove-colour, others of the colour of 
an old Buff-coat, and fome hair-colour ; all which varieties have been 
taifed from feeds, and likewife thefe more excellent kinds follow- 
ing, [ he 
| The fair red Primrofe is a pleafant flower; of a moft beatitiful rich 
fhining velvet red-colour, witha yellow Star in the bottome, asis in 
the reft, 
The Scarlet Primrofe is of efteem; the flower isof a bright Scarlet 
colour, more rare than any of the former, 
Red Primro{e hofe in hofe hath upon every ftalk (for many ftalks 
bearing flowers rife from one root, inall thefe kinds) two flowers in- 
eeu: oneftanding within the other, in fome bigger and of a 
eeper red colour, in others leffer and paler; of this kind T have raifed 
fix feveral diverfities differing from each other; either in fize; fafhion 
or colour, nO 
The double red Primrofe is the rareft of all the kinds, the flower is 
reported to be almoft as large, thick and double, as the common pale 
yellow kind, and of a fair red colour : chis if any fuch be it is thac fo 
much feed hath been fowed in hope to obtain, 
The red Gowflip, or Oxlip,is alfo of feveral forts,all of them bearing ~ 
many flowers on one ftalk, in fafhion like thofe of the field, but of fe- 
veral red . colours, {ome deeper, others lighter, fome bigger like ox- 
lips, others {maller like Comfips, 
the variable Scarletsor Orenge-coloured Comflip, hath many, fal | 
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