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fevéral colours, but notably differing in form of growing: fome with 
ond fpike, others with many, fomeround, and others more: flat: and 
divided into divers: parts: the colours mof common to thefe..flowers 
ase parple, fcarlet, and gold-colour,.in fome deeper , in others lighter 
or paler,in very great variety, and in all exceeding bright and thining 5 
fine flowers to be fet in pots co fupply the place of Gri flowers, thefe 
coming to flower as foon as they are paft, and with the great Afri- 
cas Marigold make a gallant fhew ina Garden, 
Amaranthus tricolor. 
| tS ect Gentle of three colours differeth from the former, in that the 
leaves are in fome hot years parted into three colours, namely, 
gtednjred, and yellow 5 the flowers fmall;andvof no‘ efteém ; the 
whole beauty of the: plant beg inthe marking of the leaves ; the 
feeds like thofe of the former,andithe root as foon perifhing, 
a aN ; I ec uise “7 Tt vin : ; 
They flower ufually in Aueu/ft, but fome: years nor untill late in 
_ September ; therefore that they may flower betimes, and perfec their 
feeds, fow the feedsin'a hot bed'about the middle of March; after the 
plants are come up, and have gotten fome ftrength, make anew hot 
bed;and after the violent heat is paft, take them up with earth abour 
them; and fer chemmtherein , abouc the beginning of aay, tranfplant 
them where they may ftand toibear flowers); the place mutt be open 
tothe'Sun, and the foil light and rank, and often. watered, Thus by 
removing them ffonrone hovbed to another, it will caufe them to 
‘thrive, and not only afford you many gallant flowers, but ftore of 
good feeds, which will continue good three or four years, fo to pre- 
vent wanting, you may referve a quantity from year to year, for in- 
deed," good Garden would be unfurnifhed with thefe beautiful 
flowers, the chiefeft, and moft deferving efteem of all the annuals 
or feed- flowers, 
Helichryfum five Amaranthus luteus. 
Te golden Flower Gentle,or Goldy locks,is a ftranger in our Coun- 
‘trey, it ‘will neither be raifed from feeds, or liveifthe Plants 
fhould be procured out of the hotter Countreys ; yet I have feen 
two forts thereof in flower in London, many years fince 5 they came 
up with fmall ftalks, thinly fee with narrow long whitifh green leaves, 
beating at the ends of the ftalks, many f{mall, double, gold-yellow 
flowets, in the one round, and in the other bigger, and flaract top; 
both keeping their colour, and not fhedding their leaves » many 
moneths after they are gathered, as I have feen in divers cry Plants 5 
thefe and the Cats-foot, or Cotton weeds, grow wild in fome parts of 
Italy, Candy, and other hot Countreys, but will not live with us. 
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