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flowers On ofie ftalk, which towards the bottome onthe upper fide 
in fome; are of a fine Orenge-colour, arid the leaves lifted about the 
edges with Cianamon-colour, and fomething redder on the outfide; 
fome are of a fine Scarlet colour deeper or lighter in great variety, all 
proceeding from the feeds of the déepeft colotired flowers, : 
_ The red Cowflip hofe inhofehath many flowers of one ftalk, like 
thofe of the ingeminated red Primro/¢ before defcribed, but leffer , of 
thefe I have five diftinét diverfities, fome bigger; fome leffer; and 
of deeper or lighter red colours, . 
Of fome of thefe forts.a multitude have been and are yearly raifed 
from feeds, ftill fowed in hope of gaining new varieties, cafting thofe 
away that do not an{wer expectation, which by mahy about London, 
with fuch like refufe, arefent into the flower-market, and there fold 
for little, for had they not that way to purge their Gardens, they 
would certainly, as ] and others do, deftroy them, Ihave lately 
heard feveral ignorant pretenders to the knowledge of flowers fay, 
that they could buy in that market the beft Tulips in England for 
five fhillings the hundred, the beft red Priwsrofes and Bears-ears fot 
fix pence the dozen, and all other flowers whatfoever, one with ano- 
ther, for two pence a piece ; and I believe they and many others are 
confident that there are no better to be found in the world, than 
thofe there fold at that rate, for my part I fhall not endeavoar t6 
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-undeceive them, but with them good markets that are fo poorly plea- 
fed, and return to the fubject in hand, 4 
~The common double Primro/ e flowereth in April, and the Cow/lips it 
May, the red kinds in March, and many of them will begin in Seprem- 
ber, and continue bearing flowers all the Winter, unlefs checked by 
hard weather, . 
The Engli/h kinds are hardy and profper in any place that is ‘hot 
too hot in the fun ; the red kinds are planted, fowed, and ordered in 
the fame manner as we do thre Bears-ears ; yet if fowed ina bed of 
good earth towards the end of September, they will come up at the 
Spring, and foon come to bear flowers ; we fhall only add fome few 
varieties of another kind of {mall Cow/flips, and then proceed to 
other things, 
Paralyfis minor flore rubro. 
R Ed Birds eyes continueall the Winter with the leaves clofed to- 
~\ gether, which at the Spring do open and {pread upon the ground, 
with {mall long and narrow leaves, fnipe about the edges, of a pale 
a on the upper fide, and of a mealy whitifh colour on the other ; 
rom among the leaves rife up one or two fmall hairy ftalks, half a 
foot high, bearing at the top many {mall flowers, like in fafhion un-- 
toa {mall Bears-ear, of a fine reddifh Peach-colour, with yellow eyes 
in the bottoms of the flowers, it hath a {mall ftringy root, and fome 
times beareth {mall feeds, There 
