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The Cjarden of pleafant Flowers. 
Colours, and mixtures, or varieties of colours in the Uedias, which we could neuer fee 
in the Prxcoces, and fo alfo fomein the Pracoces, which are not in the Medus .-yet there 
is farre treater varieties of mixture of colours in thefe Medias , then hath been obfer- 
ued in aTl the Pracoces, (although Clufius faith otherwife)eyther by my felfe,orby any 
other that I haue conuerfed with about this matter , and all this hath happened by the 
fowingofthefeede, as I faid before. I will therefore in this place not. trouble you 
with any further circumftance, then to diftinguifh them,aslhaue done intheformer 
early Tulipas, into their fourc primary colours, and vnderthem,giueyou their fcuerall 
varieties and names, for fo much as hath come to my knowledge, not doubting, but 
that many that haue trauellcd in the fowing ofthe feed of Tulipas many yeares , may 
obferuc each ofthem to hauefome variety that others haue not: and therefore I thinke 
no one man can come to the knowledge of all particular diftinftions. 
Tulipa medi» albs. 
The white meane flowring Tulipa. 
1 Nines, fund Oil bo vei luteo. 
2 Argent e i, quafi albs cineracea fundo lute- 
feente, purpureis Jiam inibas. 
3 Margaritsna alba,carnco dilutifisima. 
4 4 tba,j 'undo carulcovel nigro. 
y ^ ilhda . 
6 Alba, oris rubris. 
y Albafurpurets oris. < ff , i etKnt ora , t 
I Alba, oris coccineis. 6 'y difptrguiu. 
g ■_ Albidtprimum , deinde albidior, oris pur- 
pureis, & venis intro ref icientibus , dicta 
nobis Uackquenay. 
10 Alba, fanguineo colore variat a, fundo vel 
albifsimo,vdalio. 
I I Alba, radiatim difpofits flammis , & ma- 
culis coccineis. 
11 Alba, purpurea rubedine plumata , diner- 
far um fpecierum , qua cum ftperiore , vcl 
albo.vel luteo, vel paruocxruleo confiant 
fundo, qua con jiant er tenent pun flatos co- 
lor es, & non dfperguntjed pojl trium aut 
quatuor dierum fpatium pulchriores appa- 
rent. 
13 Panni argentei coloris, i. e. alba,plumata, 
punctata, flnata, vel diucrfimode variata, 
rubedine dilutior e, vel faturatiore purpu- 
rea , interius vel exterius , vel vlrin%, 
ditterfarum fpecierum. 
14 Tunica morionis alba varia , i.e. ex albo 
& purpureo jlriata diucrfimode funde albo 
vel alio. r 
1 5 Holias alba vel albida , abfq t fundo , vel 
fi undo purpureocaruleo,vel caruleo albo cir- 
cimdato.diuerse fignata, vel variata intus 
ad medietatem foliorum , furfur» in orbem 
vt plurimum , vel ad oras pertingens am- 
plas & albas. Ha fpecics tantopere multi- 
plicantur, vt vix fint explicabiles. 
x A fnow white , with a white or yellow 
bottome. 
2 A filuer colour , that is , a very pale or 
whitifliafhe colour, with a yellowifh 
bottome and purple chiues. 
3 A Pearle colour, that is, white, with a 
wafh or (hew of blufh. 
4 A white, with a blew or black bottome. 
5 A Creame colour. 
6 A white, with red edges. 
7 A white, with purple edges. 
8 Awhite,withcrimfonedges. 
p A pale or whitifh yellow , which after a 
few dayes groweth more white, with 
purpliih red edges , and fome ftreakes 
running inward from theedge, which 
we call an Hackney. 
10 A white mixed with a bloud red very 
variably, and with a pure white, oro- 
ther coloured bottome. 
1 1 A white, ftreamed with crimfon flames, 
and fpots through the whole flower. 
12 A white, fpeckled with a reddifla pur- 
ple, more or lcfFe, of diuers forts, with 
white, yellow, or blew bottomes , all 
which doe hold their markes conflant, 
and doe not fpread their colours , but 
fhew fairer after they haue flood blown 
three or foure dayes. 
1 3 A cloth of filuer of diuers forts, that is, 
awhitefpotted, ftriped, orotherwife 
marked with red or purple, in fome pa- 
ler, in fome deeper, either on the infide, 
or on the outfide, or on both. 
14 A white Fooles coate of diuers forts, 
that is, purple or pale crimfon, and 
white, as it were empaled together, ey- 
ther with a white ground or other, 
whereof there is great variety. 
1 j A white Holias, that is, a faire white, or 
paler white, eyther without a bottome, 
or with a blewifh purple bottome, or 
blew and white circling the bottome, 
and 
