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The ordering of the (far den ofTleafure. 
thefe dainty flowers, the firft whereof is this , That you lhall not bee carefull to Water 
any of your bulbous or tuberous rooted plants at any time ; for they all of them do bet- 
ter profper in a dry ground than in a wet, onely all forts of tuberous rooted Flo werde- 
luces vpon their remouall had neede of a little water, and fome will doe fo alfo to fuch 
Tulipas and other bulbous rootes as they tranfplant, when they are in flower, and this 
is I grant in fome fort tolerable , if it bee not too much , and done onely to caufe the 
ftalke and flower to abide fometime thelonger before they wither, but elfe in no other 
cafe to be permitted. Thefecondruleis, That I would aduile you to water none of 
your dainty flowers or herbes, with any water that hath prefentiy before been drawne 
out of a well or pumpe , but onely with fuch water that hath flood open in the Sunne 
in fome cifterne , tubbe, or pot for aday at the leaft, if more the better : for that water 
which is prefentiy drawne out of a well,&c. is fo cold, that it prefentiy chillcth & kil- 
leth any dainty plant be it younger or elder grown, wherof I haue had fufficient proofe: 
and therforelgiue you this caution by mine own cxperience.Thus haue I directed you 
from point to point, in all the particulars of preparing & planting that belong to this 
Garden, failing only that yet I would further enforme you, of the time of the flowring 
of thefe Out-landifh plants, according to the feuerall moneths in the yeare,that euery 
one may know what flowers euery moneth yeeldeth, and may chufe what them liketh 
beft,in that they may fee t hat there is no moneth, but glorieth in fome peculiar forts of 
rare flowers. I would likewife rather in this place (hew you, the true and beft manner 
& order to encreafe and preferue all forts of Gilloflowers & Carnations, then ioyne it 
with the Chapter of Gilloflowers in theworke following, becaufe it would in that 
place rake vp too much roome. Andlaftly, Imuftof neceflity oppofe three fundry 
crrours,thathaue poflefledthemindcsof many bothin former and latertimes , which 
are that any flower may be made to grow double by art, that wasbut Angle before by 
nature : And that one may by art caufe any flower to grow of what colour they will : 
And that any plants may be forced to flower out of their due fcafons , cither earlier or 
later, by an art which fome can vfe. All which being declared, I then fuppofe enough 
is fpoken for an introduction to this worke, referring many other things to the feuerall 
directions in the Chapters of the booke. 
Chap. VII. 
The fetter tU times ef the ftttvrittg of thefe Oat-Uudifh fimers,acctrdingtetbe feuerall 
mtneths tf the jetre. 
I Intend in this place onely to giue you briefly, the names offome of the chiefeft of 
thefe Out-landifh flowers, according to the feuerall moneths of the yeare wherein 
they flower, that euery one feeing what forts of flowers euery moneth yeeldeth , 
may take ofthem which they like beft.I begin with Ianuary,as the firft moneth of the 
yeare, wherein if the f rofts be not extreme, you fhall haue thefe flowers of plants j the 
Chriftmas flower or Helleborus niger verus , Winter wolues bane or Aconitum hye- 
inale, Hepatica or Noble Liuer wort blew and red, and of fhrubbes, the Laurus Tinus 
or Wilde Bay tree , and Mefereon or the dwdrfe Bay : bur becaufe Ianuarie is often- 
times too deepe in frofts and fnow, I therefore referre the Hepaticas vnto the moneth 
following, which is February, whereintheweatherbeginnethtobealittlemildcr, 
and then they will flower much better, as alfo diuers forts of Crocus or Saffron flow- 
er will appeare, the little early Summer foole or Leucoium bulbofum , and towards 
the latter end thereof the Vernali Colchicum, the Dogges tooth Violet or Deus Ca- 
minus, and fome Anemones, both Angle and double, which in fome places will flower 
all the Winter long. March will yeeld more varieties • for befldes that it holdeth 
fome of the flowers of the former moneth, it will yeeld you both the double blew He- 
patica , and the white and the blufh Angle : then alfo you lhall haue diuers other forts 
of Crocus or Saffron flowers. Double yellow Daffodils, Orientali Iacinrhs and o- 
thers, theCrownelmperiall, diuers forts of early Tulipas, fome forts of French Cow- 
flips, both tawney, murry, yellow, and blufh, che early Fritillaria or chcckerd Daffo- 
