T be ordering of the (far den of Tdleafure . 
landilhflo wers j that are fit to furnifli the knots, trades, beds, and borders of this Gar- 
den. R ofes onely, as I faid before,I referue to circle or encompafle all the reft, becaufe 
thatfortbemoftparttheyareplanted in the outer borders of thequarters , andfotne- 
titnes by themfelues in the middle oflong beds, the forts or kindes whereof are many 
as they are declared in their proper place : but the White Rofe , the Red , and 
the Damaske, are the molt ancient Standards in England, and therefore accoun- 
ted naturali. 
Chap. VI. 
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The trier and manner It plant and replant all the ftrts of Out-landifb flowers fptkei of 
before , m weSthofewith bulbous rottes , at others with 
flringte rootes. 
W Hereas it is the vfuall cuftoirte of moft in this Land, to turne vp their Gar- 
dens,andtoplantthemagaineintheSpnngoftheyeare, which is the 
beft time that may bee chofen for all Englifh flowers , yet it is not fo far 
your Ouc-landifh flowers. And herein indeede hath beene not onely theerrour of a 
great many to hinder their rootes from bearing out their flowers as they ihould, but 
alio to hinder many to take delight in them, becaufe as they fay they will notthriue 
and profper with them, when as the whole fault is in the want of knowledge of the fit 
and conuenient time wherein they ihould bee planted. And becaufe our Englilh Gar- 
diners are all or the moft of them vtterly ignorant ia the ordering ofthefe Out-laadiih 
fl o wers, as n ot bei ng trained vp to know them , I haue here taken vpon race the forme 
ofanew Gardiner, to giueinftrudions to thofe that will take pleafure in them that 
they may be the better enabled with thefe helpes I (hall lhewthem,both to know how 
they ihould beordered,and to direft their Gardiners that are ignorant thereofrightly 
to difpofe them according to their naturali qualities. And I doe wilhall Gentlemen 
and Gentlewomen , whom it may concerne fortheir ownegood, to bee as carefull 
whom they truft with the planting and replanting of thefe fine flowers, as they would 
be with fo many Iewels 5 for the rootes of many of them being fmall, and of great va- 
lue, may be fooneconueyed away , and a cleanly tale faire told, that fuch a rooteis 
rotten, orperilhedintheground if none be feenewhereit Ihould be, orelfethatthc 
flower hath changed his colour, when it hath been taken away, or a counterfeit one 
hath beene put in the place thereof ; and thus many haue been deceiued oftheir da in- 
tieft flowers, without remedy or true knowledge ofthedefed. You lhall therefore, if 
you will take the right courfe that is proper for thefe kindes of flowers, not fet or plant 
them among your Englilh flowers ; for that when the on* may be remoued, the other 
may not be ftirred i but plant thofe rootes that are bulbous , or round like Onions, ey- 
ther in knots or beds by themfelues which is the beft , or with but very few Englilh or 
Out-landi(h flower plants that haue ftringie rootes : For you mud take this for a gene- 
rail rule, that all thofe rootes that are like Lillies or Onions , are to bee planted in the 
moneths ofluiy or Auguft ,or vnto the middle or end of September at the furthefl , if 
you will haue them to profper as they Ihould, and not in the Spring of the y eare,when 
other gardening is vfed. Yet I muft Iikewife giue you to vnderftand , that if Tulipas, 
and Daffodils , and fome other that are firme and hard rootes, and not limber or 
fpongie, being taken vp put of the ground in their fit feafon, that is, in Iune, Iuly, and 
Auguft, and Iikewife kept well and dry, may bee referued out ef the ground vntiU 
Chriftmas or after, and then (if they could not be fet fooner) being fet, will thriuerea- 
fonablewell, butnot altogether fo well as the former, being fet long before: but if 
you (hall remouc thefe bulbous rootes againc, either prcfently after their planting ha- 
uinglhottheirfmallfibresvndertheround rootes, and fprung Iikewife vpwards, or 
beforetheybeinfioweratthefooneft(yetTulipas', Daffodils, andmany other bul- 
bous, may be fafely remoued being in flower, and tranfplanted into other places, fo as 
they be not kept too long out of the ground) you fhall much endanger them either vt- 
terly to perilli, or to be hindered from bearing out their flowers they then would haue 
B borne, 
