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will flower naturally and conftantly inthefamemonethsoneyeare, that they vfe to 
doe in another, or with but little alteration, if the y cares proue not alike kindly : As 
for example , thofe plants that doe flower in Ianuary and February , will by no art or 
induftry of man be caufed to flower in Summer or in Autumne ; and thofe that flower 
in Aprill and May, will not flower in Ianuary or February . or thofe in Iuly , Auguft, 
See. cither in the Winter or Spring: but eueiy one knoweth their owneappointed na- 
turali times, which they conftantly obferueand keepc, accordingtothetemperature 
oftheyeare, orthe temper of the climate, being further North or South, to bring 
them on earlier or later, as it doth with all other fruits, flowers, and growing greene 
herbes, &c. except that by chance, fomc one or other extraordinarily maybehinde- 
red in their due feafon of flowring , and fogiue their flowers out of time, orelfeto 
giue their flowers twice in the yearc, by the iupcraboundance of nourifliment , or the 
mildneflc of the feafon, by moderate (howcrsofraine,&c. asitfometimesalfohap- 
penethwith fruits, which chance, as it is feldome, and not conflant, fo we thenterme 
it but Lttfut ntturx .-or elfe by forcing them in hot floues, which then wil 1 peri(h,when 
they hanegiuen their flowers or fruits. It is not then, as fomehaue written, the flaw- 
ing of the feedes of Lillies, or any other plants a foote deepe , or halfe a foote deepe, 
or two inches deepe, that will caufe them to be in flower one after another, as they are 
fowneeuerymoneth of theyeare^foritwerc too grofle to thinkc, that any man of 
rcafonandiudgcmentwouldfobcieeue. Noris itlikcwifein the power of any man, 
to make the fame plants to abide a moneth, two, or three, or longer in their beauty of 
flowring, then naturally they vfe to doe ; for I thinkc that were no humane art , but a 
fupernaturall worke. For nature ftillbendethand tendeth to perfection, thatis, after 
lowringtogiuefruitorfeedc; norcan it bee hindered in the courfe thereof without 
manifeft danger of deftru6fion,euenas it is in all other fruit- bearing creatures, which 
flay no longer, then their appointed time is naturali vntothem, without apparent 
damage. Some things I grant may be fo ordered in the planting, that according to 
that order and time which is obferued in their planting, they Hull {hew forth their 
faire flowers, and they are Anemones, which will in that manner , that I haue (hewed 
in the worke following, flower in feuerall moneths of the ycare ; whichthingas it is 
incident to none Or very few other plants, and is found out but of late, fo likewile is it 
knowne butvnto a very few; Thus haue I (hewed you the true folution of thefe 
doubts : And although they haue not beene amplified with fuch Philofophicall argu- 
ments and reafons, as one of greater learning might haue done, yet are t hey truely and 
fincerely fee dowrte,thatthcy may feme tanqium galeatum , againft all the calumnies 
and obie&ions of wilfulland obdurate perfons, that will not be reformed. Asfirft, 
that all double flowers were fo found wilde, being the worke of nature alone, and not 
the art of any man i by planting or tranfplanting, at or before the new or full Moone, 
or any other obferuation of time, that hath caufed the flower to grow double, that na- 
turally was Angle : Secondly, that the rules and dire&ions, to caufe flowers to bee of 
contrary or different colours or fents, from that they were or would be naturally , are 
meere fancies of men, without any groundof reafon or truth. And thirdly, that there 
is no power or art in man, to caufe flowers to (hew their beauty diuers moneths before 
their naturali time, nor to abide in their beauty longer then the appointed naturali 
time for euery one of them. 
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