7 ~ he Cjardsn of pleafant t lowers, 
Northerne ayrc, they will be the better defended therein , and not fuffcr the frofts or 
cold to pierce them fofoone: for the dcepe frofts and fnowes doe pinch the Pracoces 
chiefly, if they bee too nearethevppermoft cruft ofthe earth -and therefore many, 
with good fuccefle , couerouer their ground before Winter, with either frefli or old 
rotten dung, and that will maruelloufly preferue them. The like courfe you may hold 
with feedlings, to caufe them to come on the forwarder, fo it bee after the fir ft yeares 
fowing, and not till then. 
To rcmoueTulipas after they hauefhot forth their fibres or fmall firings, which 
grow vnder the great round rootes, (that is, from September vntill they bee in flower) 
is very dangerous • for by remouing them when they haue taken faft hold in the 
ground, you doe both hinder them in the bearing out their flower, and befides, put 
them in hazzard to perifh, at leaft to bee put backe from bearing for a whileafter, as 
oftentimes I haue proued by experience : But when they are now rifen to flower, and 
fo for any time after, you may fafely take them vp if you will, and remouerhem 
without danger, if you haue any good regard vnto them, vnlefle it be a young bearing 
toote, which you fhall info doing much hinder, becaufe it is yet tender, by reafon ft 
now bearcth his firft flower. But all T ulipa roots when their ftalke and leaues are dry, 
may moft fafely then be taken vp out of the ground, and be fo kept (fo that they lye in 
a dry, and not in a moift place) for fixe moneths, without any great harme : yea I haue 
kno wne them that haue had them nine moneths out of the ground, and haue done rea- 
fonable well, but this you muft vndei ftand withall, that they haue not been young but 
cider rootes, and they haue been orderly taken vp and preferued. The dryer you keep 
a Tuliparoote the better, foasyou let itnot lye in the funne orwinde, which will 
pierce it and fpoile it. 
Thus Gentlewomen for your delights,(for thefe pleafures are the delights of lea- 
fure, w hich hath bred your loue & liking to them, and although you are herein predo- 
minant, yet cannot they be barred from your beloued,who I doubt nor,wil fhare with 
you in thedelight as much as is fit) haue I taken this paines, to fee downe, and bring to 
your knowledge fuch rules ofart, as my fmall skill hath enabled mee withall concer- 
ning this fubiedf, which of all other, feemed firteft in this manner to be enlarged, both 
for the varietie of matter, and excellency of beautie herein, andalfo that thefe rules 
fet forth together in one place , might (aue many repetitions in other places , fothat 
for the planting and ordering of all other bulbous rootes, and the fowing the feedes of 
them, you may haue recourfe vnto thefe rules, (tanquarn ad normam & examen ) which 
may ferue in generali for all other, little diucrfitic of particulars needing exception* 
The Place* 
The greater Tulipas haue firft beene fent vsfromConftantirtople, and 
other parts of Turkie , where it is faid they grow naturally wilde in the 
Fields, Woods, and Mountaines 5 as Thracia, Macedonia, Pontus about 
the Euxine Sea, Cappadocia, Bithynia, and about Tripolis and Aleppo in 
Syria alfo : the lefler haue come from other feuerall places , as their names 
doc defeipher it out vnto vs ; as Armenia, Perfia, Candye, Portugal!, 
S paine, Italy, and France. They arcall nowmade Denizens in our Gar- 
dens, where they yeeld vs more delight, and more encreafe for their pro- 
portion, by reafon ofthe culture, then they did vnto their owne naturals. 
The Time, 
Thefe doe flower fome earlier, fome later, for three whole moneths to- 
gether at the leaft, therein adorning out a Garden moft glorioufly, in that 
being but one kinde of flower, ft is fo full of variety, as no other (except the 
Daffodils, which yet arenot comparable , in that they yeeld notthat allu- 
ring pleafant variety) doe the like befides. Some of the Pracoces haue beene 
in flower with vs, (for I fpeake not of their owne naturali places, where the 
Wintersare milder, and the Spring earlier then ours) in the moneth ofla- 
nuary, when the Winter before hath beene milde, but many in February, 
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