6z ¥ be (jar den of pleafant Floors. 
There yet remainc many obferuations, concerning thefe beautifull flowers, fitto be 
knovvne, which could not, without too much prolixity, be comprehended within the 
bodyofthedcfcriptionofthem;butarereferuedtobeeintreatcd of a part by then»- 
fclues. 
AllfortsofTulipasbearevfuallybut one ftalke, and that without any branches: 
but fometimes nature is fo plentifull in bearing, that it hath two or three ftalkes , and 
fometimes two, or more branches out of one ftalke (euery ftalke or branch bearing 
one flower at the toppe) but this is but feldome fcenc ; and when it doth happen once 
it is hardly feeneagainein the fame roote, but is a great figne, that the roote that 
doth thus, being an old roote, will the fame y care part into diuers roorcs, whereof 
euery one, being of a real'onable greatndlc , will beare both his ftalke and flower the 
next yeare, agreeing with the mother plant in colour, as all the of-fets of Tulipas doe 
for the moft part: for although the young of-fets of fome doe vary from the maine 
roote, euen while it groweth with them, yet being feparated, it will bee of the fame 
colour with the mother plant. 
There groweth oftentimes in the Medial , and fometimes alfo in the Praceees, but 
more feldome, a fmall bulbe orroote, hard abouetheground,atthe bottomcof the 
ftalke, and betweene it and the lower leafe, which when the ftalke is dry , and it ripe, 
being put into the ground, will bring forth in time a flower like vnto the mother plant) 
from whence it was taken. 
The flowers alfo of T ulipas confift moft commonly of fixe leaues , but fometimes 
they are feeneto haue eight or tenne,or more leaues ; but vfually , thofe rootes beare 
but their ordinary number of fixe leaues the next yeare : the head for feede then is 
forrhe moft part fourefquare, which at all other times is but three fquare, or when 
the flower wanteth a leafe or two, as fometimes alfo it doth, it then is flat hauin® but 
two fides. 
The forme of the flower is alfo very variable ; for the leaues of fome Tulipas are all 
Iharpe pointed, or all blunt and round pointed , and many haue the three outer leaues 
fharpe pointed, and the three inner round or pointed, and fome contrari wife, thethree 
outermoft round pointed, and the three inner iharpe pointed. Againe,fome haueall 
the leaues of the flowers long and narrow, and fome haue them broader and (horter. 
Some Pracoces alfo haue their flowers very large and great, equall vnto eytherthe 
Media , or Serotina , which moft commonly arc the largeft , and others haHe them as 
fmall as the BoloniaTulipa. 
The bottomesofthe leaues ofthe flowers are alfo variably diuerfified, and fo are 
both the chiues or threeds that (land vp about the head, and the tips or pendents that 
are hanging loofe on the toppes of them; and by the difference ofthe bottomes or 
chiues, many flowers are diftinguiihed, which clfc are very like in colour , and alike 
alfo marked. 
For the fmell alfo there is fome diuerfity ; for that the flower? of fome are very 
fweetc, of others nothing at all, and fome betweene both, of a fmall fent,but not offen- 
fiue : and yet fome I haue obferued haue had a ftrong ill fent . but how to (hew you to 
diftinguifh them , morcthenbyyourownefenfc, 1 cannot : for the feedes of fweete 
fmelling Tulipas doe not follow theirmother plant, no more then they doe in the 
colour. 
And laftly, takethis , which is notthe lead obferuation , worth the noting, that I 
haue obferued in many : When they haue beene of one entire colour for diuers yeares, 
yet in fome yeare they haue altered very much, asifithad not beene the fame, viz. 
from a purple or darnel I, it hath beene variably either parted , or mixed, orftriped 
with white, eyther in part , orthrough thewhole flower, and fo in a red or yellow 
flower, that it hath had eyther red or yellow edges, or yellow or red fpots , lines 
vcines, or flames, running through the red or yellow colour, and fometimes’it hath 
happened, that three leaues haue been equally parted in the middle with red andyel- 
Iow,the other three abiding of one colour, and in fome the red had fomeyellow in ir 
and the yellow fome red fpots in it alfo ■ whereof I haue obferued , that allfuch flow’ 
ers, not hauing their originali in that manner, (for fomethat haue fuch or the like 
markes from the beginning, that is, from the firft and fecond yeares flowring, are con- 
ftanj, and doe not change) but as I Taid, were of one colour at the firft, doe Ihewthe 
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