The ordering of the (jar den ofTleafure. 1 1 
rorate, bedew or fprinkle them often. From the feedes of thefe Gilloflovvers hachri- 
fen both. white, red,blufli, ftamcll, tawny lighter and fadder, marbled, fpeckled, (ta- 
ped, flaked, and that in diuers manners , both Angle and double flowers , as you (hall 
fee them fetdowne in a more ample manner in the Chapter of Gilloflowers. And 
thus much for their encreafe by the two wayes of planting and fowing : For as for a 
third way, by grafting oncinto or vpon another, I know none fuch to be true , nor to 
be of any more worth than an old Wiues tale, both nature, reafon, and experience, all 
concerting againft fuch an idle fancy, let men make what oftentation they pleafe. It 
now rcftethjthat we alfo (hew you the manner how to preferuethem,as well in Sum- 
mer from all noyfome and hurtful! things, as in the Winter and Spring fromthe (harp 
and chilling colds, and the fliarpe and bitter killing windes in March. Thehurtfull 
things in the Summer are efpecially thefe,toomuch heate ofthe Sunne which fcorch- 
eth thera^which you muft be c archill to preuent, by placing boughes,boords, clothes 
or mats,.&c. before them , if they bee in the ground ; or elfe if they bee in pots , to 
remoue into them into the fhadow, to giue them refrefhing from the heate , and giue 
them water alfofortheir life: too much water, or too little is another annoyance, 
which you muft order as you fee there is iuft caufe,by withholding or giuing them wa- 
ter gendy out of a watering por,and notcaft on by difhfuls : Some alfo to water their 
Gilloflowers , vfe to fet their pots into tubbes or pots halfe full of water , that fo the 
water may foake in at the lower holes in each flower pot, to giue moifture to the roots 
ofthe Gilloflowers onely, without calling any water vpon the leaues, and afturedly it 
is an excellent way to moiften the rootes fo fufficiently at one time, that it doth faue a 
great deale of paines many other times. Eatwickes are a moft infeftuous vermine , to 
fpoyle the whole beauty of your flowers, and that in one night or day ; for thefe crea- 
tures delighting to crcepe into any hollow or (hadowie place, doe creepe into the 
long greene pods of the Gilloflowers, and doe eate away the white bottomes of their 
leaues, which are fweete, whereby the leaues ofthe flowers being loofe, doeeither 
fall away ofrhemfelues before, or when they are gathered, or handled, orprefently 
wither within the pods before they are gathered, and blownc away with the winde. 
To auoide which inconucnience, manyhaue deuifedmany waies andinuentions to 
deftroy them , as pots with double verges or brimmes, containing a hollow gutter be- 
tweene them, which being filled with water, will not fuffer thefe fmall vermine to 
paffe ouer it to the Gilloflowersto fpoile them. Others hauc vfed old fhooes, and fuch 
like hollow things to bee fet by them to take them in : but the beft and moft vfuall 
things now vfed , are eyther long hollow canes , or elfebeafts hoofes , which being 
turned downc vpon ftickes ends fet into the ground, or into the pots of earth, will 
foone draw into them many Earwickes, lymg hid therein from funne, winde, and 
raine,and by care and diligence may foonebeedeftroyed , if euery morning and eue- 
ning one take the hoofes gently off fromthe ftickes, and knocking them againft the 
ground in a plain allie,(hake out all the Earwicks that are crept into them,which quick- 
ly with ones foot may be trode to peeccs.For fodain blafting with thunder and lighte- 
ning, or fierce fharpe windes, &c. I know no other remedy , vnlcfTe youcancouer 
them therefrom when youfirft forefee the danger, but patiently to abide the Ioffe, 
whatfoeuer fome hauc aduifed,to lay litter about them to auoide blafting; for if any 
fhall make tryall thereof, I am in doubt, he (hall more endanger his rootes thereby , be- 
ing the Summer time, when any fuch fearc of blafting is, than any wife faue them from 
it, or doe them any good. For the Winter preferuation of them, fome hauc aduifed to 
coucrthem with Bee-hiues, or elfe with fmall Willow ftickes , prickt croffewife into 
the ground ouer your flowers, and bowed archwife, and with litter laid thereon, 
to couer the Gilloflowers quite ouer , after they haue beene fprinkled with fope allies 
and lyme mixt together: and this way is commended by fome that haue written there- 
of, to be fuch an admirable defence vnto them in Winter, that neither Ants, nor 
Snailes, nor Earwickes fhall touch them,becaufeof the fope afhes and lyme, and ney- 
ther frofts nor ftormes fhall hurt them, becaufe of the litter which fo well will defend 
them 5 and hereby alfo your Gilloflowers will bee ready to flower, not onely in the 
Spring very early, but euen all the Winter. But whofoeuer (hall follow thefe direifti- 
ons, may peraduenture finde them in fome part true, astheyarethere fetdowne for 
the Winter time, and while they are kept clofe and couercd j but let them bee allured. 
