Chap. Id. CERES 
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Aquilegia, e 
Sa olor: bines axe Plants well known, and commonly ‘raifed 
Y KONIG from feeds, alchough their roots ate of fone continu- 
ance, they are of many forts, differing in form, as well 
as in'the:colours of the flowers; we willin thefe. as 
in all the reft that are to follow,give you a brief account 
of the beft varieties of each, with dire&ions how to 
continue the kinds from year to year, ¢ 
_ The double Colombines, for the fingle are not regarded , are diftin- 
suithed by the flowers » Which chiefly are of four colours, namely 
white, blew, murrey purple, and red 5 fome deeper, and others ligh« 
ters but thefe felf-colours at valued, thofe that are variegated 
ftriped, {ported, or powdered, are onely entertained, whereof there 
are many diverfities, differing in colours, or manner of marking, fr 
each other; fomewill be half white, and half of another colour, as 
light blew, violec-purple, murtey, of light reds others ftriped, fpot- 
ted, and varioufly marked with thefe colouts. upon white, in fome 
moreand in others lefs, 
The double Inverted Colombines , chat is wich the heels turned in- 
wards, are of feveral forts, as double and well-marked as thofe of 
the former; and with the famecolours, but not fo plentiful in va- 
aieties, 
it; SSR SoEe aed. te pak dh rach gO oo Qi: ae a 
~The double Rofe- Colom ines ave thofe.chat have noheels, but faad 
on the ftalks like littledouble Refes, but that the leaves are tlarrow 
and tharp-pointed , of thefe there are fome diverfities, of the fore- 
mentioned colours, diverfly ftriped and mixed , fome bigger and lefs 
double, and others leffer but more double, 
<. The Degenerate Colombing is like the lat , bit that the outermott 
row of leaves is much larger than the teft that are inward; the whole 
flower is- commonly of a greeftifh purple colour, eBih a 23 ss} 
The Virginian Colombine hath {mall fingle flowers with long heels, 
of a yellowith colour, fhadowed with red 5 having deeper red {pots in 
the hollow parts of the flower; this came to usin Plants from Vir- 
einta, andirom the feeds thereof, many have been railed. bur few 
Ike che original, moft of them degenerating into fimple fingle ill-co- 
Toured flowers. ) 0283 | peGis) 
© oPhey fowerin the end.of: Atay after the Telips are paft, and theres 
fore the more acceptable, shat feafon a few other Hower 
