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Ailthe deuble Colomsbines do bring feeds as well as the fingle, which 
nut be fowed in Apri! in the Nurcery » where the fecond year they 
will bear flowers, out of which the beft may be chofen and removed 
into the Garden, thereto continue three or four years, bue if they 
be kept too long, they will curn fingle, ot jefs double,and few of them 
will come well marked, fo that againft the fourth year'a new ftock 
would be provided , and the old caft away ; almoft every root that 
bears mixed-coloured flowers, will have fome that will be of one co- ~ 
four, the which,in fuch Plants of every colour and kind as you referve 
to feed, muft be nipped off, and the beft marked flowers onely left to 
feed, and fo youmay be fure of many fine varieties from the feeds of 
fuch well-chofen flowers, 
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CHAP, Ill, 
Antirrbinum. 
Nap-Dragon bath fome pretty diverfities, the 
Plant is common and well known , and needeth 
no defcription ; the chiefeft difference is in the 
colours of the flowers, and the thing moft ne- 
ceffary toinform, is how to gain the beft kinds, 
and to keep and preferve them ; the firft an 
moft common is that called , 
_ Antirrhinum album. 
He white Snap-Dragonisfo common, that Ineed fay no moreof 
it, but we have another kind thereof that is more rare, and this 
is called 
Antirrbinum album variegatum. 
@ ox white variegated Snap- Dragon is inall things like the common 
white, but onely that the upper broad leaf, that is divided in the 
middle,and turned up at the edges, hath on the infide many fmall long 
fearhered lines, of a fine purplifh colour , which addeth much to the 
beauty of the flower, . 
Antirrbinum rabrum. 
5 red ete Tet is of two or three forts, the beft hath flow- 
ers like theformer, but that they are of the colour of a deep 
red Rofe, the other are red, but paler than each other, and there is 
another that beareth fmaller red flowers than the former, having a 
yellow fpot in the Nofe of the fower, as all the reft have, but int i 
circled as it were almoft about with white, 
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