cnis like barns, in the middle of the flower, where- 
of fevers! others hove none. Thefe kinds , and ef pe- 
nally this that is the Deep Red Crimfon colored 
flower, do very well endure the Cold of our Winters, 
and are with much lefs care preferved. This De- 
feription take as a Prcftdent Jor all the kinds of 
Clove-gilMowers. 
Clove-gillifiower for the moft part. The flowers are 
like unto the Clove-gilliflowers, and about the fame 
bignefs and duplicity , yet in fome they are much 
greater than in others , but of a pale yel'loaijh Car- 
nation color , ( tending fomething to an Orange) with 
two f mall while threads, and crooked at the ends, 
in the middle, but fame have none. The Smell is 
weaker than that of the Clove-giUiflower,ji>r ieleB- 
able enough to that Senfe. This kind is more apt 
to bear Seed than any other , which is final / black, 
flat, and long, and being Sown, yields wonderful va- 
rieties of flowers, both Single and Double ; f om e 
being of a lighter or deeper color than the Original 
or Mother Plant •„ fome with flripes in mojl of the 
Leaves ; others are Jlriped or J potted , /ike one of 
the great fpeckled Carnations or Gilliflowers, in 
various forts or kinds, and that both Single ' and 
Double : Some again are wholly of one color like 
the Original or Mother Plant , and are either ’ more, 
or lefs Double than it ; or elfe are Single, with one 
raw of Leaves, like to a Pink. And fome of theje 
are alfo wholly of a crimfon red, or deeper, or light- 
' er, or variably j potted , double, or Jingle as a Pink 
or bhtjb , either fmgle or double, yet but very fel- 
dorn white ; w hi/Ji all of them in the green Leaves 
of the Stalks nothing at all percept ably differing. 
Cjreat 
Carnation. 
V. Thefecond, or great eft Englifh Carnation, has 
a Root which is branched into Jevcral great , long 
and woody Arms or Parts, having many Jmall Fibres 
annexed to them, yet is very difficultly preferved in 
1 Vinter, for which reafon it is not altogether fo com- 
mon as the other Carnations and Glove-gillitiowers. 
From this Root rifes up a great thick round Stalk, 
divided intofeveral Branches, fomewhat thickly fet 
with Joints, and at every Joint two long Leaves, 
rather green than whitijh, fomewhat broader than 
Clove-gillifiower Leaves , turning or winding two or 
three times round -,( yet in fome other kinds of Carna- 
tions, they are plain, but bending their points down- 
wards, and in fome alfo of a dark redd if? green co- 
lor, in others not fo dark, but rather of a whitijh 
green color : ) The Flowers ft and at the tops of the 
Stalks, in long, great, round , green husks, which 
are divided into Jive points, out of which rife many 
long and broad pointed Leaves, deeply jagged at the 
ends, fet in order , round and beautiful , making a 
noble great double Flower, oj a deep Carnation color, 
al moft redfpotted with many blufh fpots and ft, rakes, 
fome great er, and fome leJJer,of an excellent, delightful 
and pleafant fweet Smell , not too quick, as many o- 
thers oj this kind are, nor yet too dull, and with 
two whitijh crooked threads, like horns in the mid- 
dle. This kind never bears many Flowers, but as it 
is flow in growing fo it is alfo in bearing • it is a 
magnificent Flower, and fhetrs a kind of ft ate line fs, 
for it wall not endure to be often handled. This 
defeription may ferve for all them of this kind. 
VI. The third, or LelTer Kind of Carnation, has 
a Root much like to the former but fomething lef- 
fer, having from it Stalks next the ground, thick 
jet, but wab f mailer, or narrower Leaves than the 
C/ave> 
VII. The Places. Thefe are all nonrifhed in Gar- 
dens throughout all England: of the firft kind I 
have feen whole Fields of them planted in Kent 
for the ufe of the Markets in London. The third 
was brought out of Silefia, but now is become a 
free Denizon, and abfolute native of this Kingdom , 
it growing and thriving as well here with us, as any 
of the former. 
VIII. T/;<? Times. They Flower not until the heat 
of the Year, which is about the latter end of June 
and in July, ( unlels it be an extraordinary hot Sea- 
fon) and they continue flowering, until the Cold 
of the Autumn nip them, or till they have wholly 
fpent them (elves out ^ and are generally, ( as was 
laid before 1 inrrpnfp.1 Ku 9i;n,c nil... 
faid before ) increased by Slips. The Clovc-gilh- 
eafoii of their hardeefs, being better” able 
hp f'rvlrl rf Wmtn, .1 . 
flowers by reafon ....... ..a.u.ic.., icing uerret ame 
to endure the Cold of Winter, are ufually planted 
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