» not dainty of their nourifhment, for they will srow and 
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a great head of many fingle Scarlet lowers, which may ferve to point 
out all the reft, bg! Any! ie 
We have another of this kind, no way differing from the former, 
but in thetolowr of the flowers, which in this are at the firft. of a 
reddifh blufh-colour, after growing paler by degrees ; fo that in 
one head of flowers there will be feveral fhadows of blufhes, one paler 
thananother, 9 | 3 
There isa third that beareth fingle flowers, like in all parts tothe 
former, only the flowers of this are of a fnow-white colour, 
Lyehnis Chalcidonica flore pleno mintato. 
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| Fx rich Scarlet Non-fuch, or Flowerof Briftol, differeth from the 
fift, inthat the ftalks are bigger and ftronger, bearitig many 
flowers (as the reft do) at the tops thereof, which in this are thick 
and double, and of the fame rich Scarlet colour that is in the firft, 
or a little deeper, 
The Champions do begin to flower towards the end of Fane, and 
willcontinue bearing flowers untill September, the feveral forts of 
: Non-[uch; bring forth their flowers in Fu/y, 
‘The Champions mutt be planted of flips taken from the old root, 
int the end of Augnft, or beginning of September, that they may take 
root before Winter; thofe fet in the Spring run up to flower and die 
at Winter, astheold Plants are apt todo, therefore fet flips eve- - 
ry year, left youlofethekind, The Non-fuch are hardy Plants, aid 
willeontinue long, they are encreafed by taking young Plants from 
the old roots, which will come up with many heads, ‘and every head 
taken off with fome little of the root will grow, and foon come to. 
bear flowers , the beft time for the doing thereof, is in the end of 
March, when thenew fhoots are rifen to fome height out of the 
ground ; perhaps if trial were made of fowing the feeds of the fingle . 
kinds, fome new varieties might be gained ; the feeds are (mall and 
mutt be fowed and ordered as we do Auricula: but thefe Plants are 
bear well al- 
moftin any foil, but worft in thac which is over hot and too rank. 
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