The ordering of the (jardenof Tletfm. 
torna, and for two or three years after from beaiing flowers agame.Fortlic ordcr of 
their planting thereare diuers wayes,fome whereof! will (hew you in this place: Your 
knot Or beds being prepared fitly, as before is declared, you may placeand order your 
rootcs thereinthus, Eyther many rootes of one kind fet together in a round or clufter, 
or longwife erodes bed one by another, whereby the beauty of many flowers of one 
kinde being together, may make a fairefiiew wellplcafing to many 5 Or elleyou may 
plant one or two in a place difperfedly ouer the whole knot, or in a proportion or dia- 
meter one place anfwering another of the knot, as your (tore will fuffer you, or your 
knot permit: Or you may alio mingle thefe rootes in their planting many of diuers 
forts together, that they may giue the more glorious (hew whenthey are in flower ; and 
that you may fo doe, ycumuft firftobferue the feuerall kindes of them, which doe 
flower at one and the fame time, and then to place them in fuch order and fo neare one 
vnto another, that their flowers appearing together of f euerall colours, will caufe the 
more admiration in the beholdets : as thus, The Vernali Crocus or Saffron flowers of 
the Spring, white, purple, yellow, and ftript, with fame V email Colchicum or Medow 
Saffron among them, fome Deus Caninus or Dogges teeth, and fomc ofthe fmallearly 
Leucoium or Bulbous Violet, all planted in fome proportion as neare one vnto ano- 
ther as is fit for them, will giue fuch a grace to the Garden, that the place will feeme 
like a peece oftapeftry of many glorious colours, to encreafe cuery ones delight : Or 
elfe many ofone fort together, as the blew, white and blufh Grape flowers in the fame 
manner intermingled, doe make a marucllous delegable (hew,elpecially becaufe all of 
them rife almoft to an equall height , which caufeth the greater grace , as well neare 
hand as farre of. The like order may be kept with many other things, asthe Hepatica, 
white, blew, purple, and redfet or fowne together, will make many tobeleeuethat 
one ro'ote do’th beare all thofe colours : But aboue and beyond all others, the Tulipas 
may be fo matched, one colour anfwering and fetting of another, that the place whera 
they ftand may refemblc a peece of curious needle-worke, or peece of painting : and I 
haue knowne in a Garden, the Mafter as much commended for this artificiali forme in 
placing the colours of Tulipas, as for the goodnefle of his flowers, or any other thing. 
* The diuers forts and colours of Anemones or W inde-flowers may be fo ordered like- 
wife , which are very beautifull , to haue the feuerall varieties planted one neare vnto 
another, that their feuerall colours appearing in one place will be a very great grace in 
a Garden , or if they be difperfed among the other forts of flowers , they will makea 
glorious (hew. Another order in planting you may obferue 5 which is this, That thofe 
plants that grow low, as the Aconitum Hyemale or Winter-wolues bane, tht Vernali 
Crocus or Saffron-flowers of diuers forts , the little early Leucoium or Bulbous Vio- 
let, and fome fuch other as rife not vp high, as alfo fome Anemones may be very well 
placed fomewhat neare or about your Martagons, Lillies,or Crownes Imperiali, both 
becaufe thefe little plants will flower earlier than they , and fo will bee gone and paft, 
beforcthe other greater plants willrife vp to any height to hinder them ; which is a 
way may well be admitted in thofe Gardens that are fmall,to faue roome, and to place 
things to themoft aduantage. Thus hauing (hewed you diuers wayes and orders how 
, to plant your rootes, that yonr flowers may giue the greater grace in the Garden, let 
mee fliew you likewife howto fetthefe kindesof rootes into the ground; for many 
know not well eyther which end to fetvpwards or downewards, nor yet to what 
depth they fhould be placed in the ground. Daffodils if they be great rootes, will re- 
quired muft bee obferued in all other great plants) to bee planted fomewhat deeper 
then the fmaller of the fame kinde, as alfo that the tops or heads of the rootes be about 
two or three fingers breadth hid vnder ground. The Tulipas likewife if you fetthem 
deepe,they will bethe fafer from frofts if your ground be cold , which will alfo caufe 
them to be a little later before they be in flower, yet vfually if the mould be good,thcy 
are to be fet a good hand breadth deep within the ground, fo that there may be three or 
foure inches of earth at the lead aboue the head, which is the fmaller end of the roote: 
for if they (hall lye too nearethe vpper face or cruft ofthe earth, the colds & frofts will 
pierce and pinch them the fooner. After the fame order and manner muft Hyacinthes, 
whether great or fmall, and other fuch greatrootes be planted. Your greater rootes, as 
Martagons, Lillies, and Crownes Imperiali, muft be fet much deeperthen any other 
bulbous roote, becaufe they are greater rootes then others , and by them (clues alfo, as 
