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Dow Daifies are of divers forts, and fome of theni fo: varievy, 
"~ entertained in good Gardens; the chiefelt are the greater. white, 
the all-red, the great red and white, the childing Day fie, the abortive 
naked double green Dayfie, and.divers other varieties there are {carce 
worthy naming , they all flower in Apesl, and may be eafily increafed 
by parting the roots in the Spring, or Autumn ; if they fland.¢ 
much in the Sun, yalefs often watered, it will foon fcorch and re 
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GY AN ped rics of the Spring; all thofe pow in efteem are fuc 
eS yo Helland and Flanders haye been raifed from feeds, 
NSS Aigh Which is che caufe they, are fo frail, andsapt to perith 
SS} after they have born flowers ; we had heretofore many 
good kinds that were not feedlings, bu: few of them now to be found 
in any of our Gardens, | Erker. 
Illi flowers are the pride of Somer, as Tulips.are the glo: 
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Of thefe Dateh flowers I have known more than a hundred ditting 
varieties, by feveral names, all of them fair, large, thick, and double 
flowers, well ftriped, fakes marbled, or powdered with white os 
bluth, either upon darker or lighter red, crimfon or carnation, fadder 
or brighter purple, deeper or paler Scarlet, and white; fo that all the : 
belt varieties now in being, may be comprehended under thefe ¢ : 
forts, thar is, red and white, purple and white, and f{carler and whites 
in all which colours there are many fine varieties, the which we. will 
infert under thofe names by which they.are generally: received and 
known, beginning with a dozen of the beft in every fort, the reft be- 
ing all very good flewers ;..butiadeed there is no end of thefe feeds 
flowers, every year producing new varieties, and perhaps within two 
or three years, few of thofe now in efteem left, for commonly the 
Plants after they have born flowers die in Winter, a property com- 
monto moft feedlings, ee ee 
_ To defcribe every particular flower, would be tedious, and-to {mall 
purpofe, inrefpect of their frailry ; therefore 1 conceive the naming 
the beft in every fort, willbe futficient to inform chofe thar defire 
to collect chem, which done, we thall farther enlarge touching their 
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