Chap. 712. Unglijh Herbs. 
it is that mkes them profperous^ but fome Moi- 
fture will all'o be requilite, and therefore it will be 
neceflary from time to time to Water them, (as 
your Prudence fhall direft,) with Water newly 
drawn out of a Well. 
XI. Obf. 6. The Glafles muft be continued, till 
the Air is grown warm or mild ^ nor muft the Pots 
be yet taken out of their Beds, which preferve a 
certain Warmth within them, which has an admi- 
rable influence upon them, in cauling them to 
fruftify. 
XII. Obf. 7. If you have no Dung, and are 
loth to be at the charge thereof, you muft not 
Plant your Tuberofe Roots till the end of March , 
or beginning of Aprils for the great Colds being 
then over, many Inconveniencies of early Planting 
will be avoided. Then fill the Pots in the manner 
before preferibed, and Plant your Roots therein-, 
whjch Pots expole in the moft Sunny places, fet- 
ting them upon Boards under a Wall, that they 
may have the reverberation of the Heat from the 
Wall alfo, which will make them the looner come 
to their defired Perfeflion. 
XIII. Obf 8. If you Plant them in May , then 
your Plants will Flower in Autumn ; but you muft 
obferve the fame Method as you do in thofe which 
are more early Planred, always placing them where 
the Sun is hotteft : And to forward them in their 
growth, you muft Water every day at Noon, 
with Water warmed in the Sun. 
XIV. Obf. 9. This Plant is not to be raifed in 
open Grounds, beeaufe the Heat in our colder 
Climates is not fufficient to make them grow and 
thrive as they ought ^ but being Planted in Pots as 
before direfled, they are to be expofed to the Solar 
heat ; yet fome do not only expofe them to the 
ftrongelt heat they can in the Day time, but alfo 
put lome Glafles upon them to retain the Heat the 
longer. 
XV. Obf 10. If it happens that fome Roots fhoot 
not up their Stems fo loon as others, you muft re- 
move the Pot out of the hot Bed it is in, and fet 
it in another hot Bed new made, (provided it has 
difeharged its fiift heat-, ) or for want of fuch a 
Bed, to place it on a heap of Horfe-Dung mode- 
rately warm, which expedient has been found very 
well to fucceed. 
XVI. Obf 11. When the Stems grow high, and 
the Flowers begin to appear upon their tops, you 
muft fupport them with a little Rod or Stick, of a 
Fingers thicknefs, which is to be ftuck into the 
Earth, near the Foot of each Plant, to which the 
Stems are to be tyed * for otherwife the weight of 
the Flowers would make them exceedingly to bend, 
and pofhbly alfo to break : When they begin to 
blow, each Flower blows fucceflively one after 
another, which keeps them a long time in Flow- 
ering ; the Smell and Odour of which is very 
' fweet and grateful, Perfuming the place or room 
in which they grow or are placed. 
XVII. Obf 12. This Plant is multiplyed by 
Suckers, but this is chiefly done in hot Climates ^ 
for tho’ we look never fo carefully after thefe 
Suckers, yet their Stems (in our cold Climates,) 
will never grow high as thofe which are Planted 
from their Original Roots, brought to us out of 
Italy , and other like Countries-, nor will their 
Flowers be fo numerous or fo beautiful ; where- 
fore it is a Folly to think of augmenting of their 
numbers this way. 
XVIII. Obf. 15. Lafily , Authors have faid no- 
thing of their Virtues, but only fuppofe them to 
have the lame Qualities and Specification with the 
other Hyacinths .* But the great care and trouble 
in their Cultivation, is chiefly for the Beauty of 
Ii8i 
rheir flowers, and their Fragrant Odour, with 
which they replenilh the places of their abode. 
CHAP. DCCXIII. 
Of the TULIP, or Turks-Cap. 
I. I 'HE Names. It has no Creek nor Latinc 
. . that we know of, but Authors have 
Latmizil a Name for it, and call it Tu/ipa, from 
the T urkijh Word T ulipan, which is the Name 
the Turks give their Head-Tyres, or Caps-, and 
we in Enghjh, in conformity to this Name, call it 
the Tulip, which is much like a Turks-Cap. 
Ii. The Kinds. Some as Dodomet/s, and M.it- 
thiolus upon Din/corides, refer it to the nunSr, or 
TOW Theophrafti , in lib. 7. cap. 1 3. as if it was a 
kind of wild Hyacinth ; but in the place cited, 
Thcophraflus gives us neither its Form nor Quali- 
ties, but barely the Name; but I fuppofe they 
might attribute it to be a Species of fome of 
thofePlams, becaufeofits BulbousRoot. Gefner 
firft of all, and after him Camerarius , Cluftus and 
Lobe/, with many others fince, refer it to the Saty- 
rion Dio/corides, which feems to be the very truth 
it felf, for thefe following Reafons. I. From its 
place of Growing ; for that it grows frequently and 
plentifully in many parts of Greece , and the LeJJer 
Afia, and fo no doubt could not but be fufficiently 
known both to Thcophraflus and Diofcorides. 
II. from the Perm of the Plant. The Satyrion 
Diofcoridis commonly bore three Leaves on 3 Stalk, 
not much unlike to a Lilly ; (ours has fometimes 
three, rarely fourorfive ; ) whereof fome are often- 
times feen ro be red in the firlt Springing, and alfo 
upon the Decaying, efpecially in a diy time, and a 
dry Ground. III. fromthe form of the Root. Diofco- 
riaes's Satyr ion has a round Root, and as white with- 
in as the white of an Egg, as the Tulip has, cove- 
red with a brown Coat, having a fweetilli, but not 
unpleafant Talte. IV. prom the form of its flower. 
Thofe which have red Flowers, may very well 
agree with that Species called Erytbromum , which 
fee in Matthiohts upon Diofcorides, page 637. and 
Bodtcus his Comment on Thcophraflus , f ib. 9. 
page 1 1 7 1 . which Camerarius in his Epitome, l_obel 
and others, call Lilio-Narciffus, becaule it has fome 
reiemblance of the Lily in the Leaf, Flower and 
Seed ; and the NarciJJus or Daffodil in its Root. 
V. prom the Qualities. For 'hat lome very Learned 
Phyfitians have affirmed to me, and that from Ex- 
perience (as they fay,) that the Tulip Roots have 
the fame Virtues which Diofcori Jet’s Satyriott, and 
Theophraftus' s Herba quam Indus attulerat have, 
and that not inferior to the fame. The greateft 
difference with Diofcorides, is in the Seed, which 
yet I think, (confidering the ufual way of fpeak- 
ing) is none at all : For, as he fays, it is fomething 
like to Lin/eed ; fo we often fay of many other 
things, which are fir from being exaftly like the 
fame. The Seed of the Tulip is iiattiih," hard and 
(hilling, and agrees well enough (generally fpeak- 
ing,) to flax or Linfeed-, alrho’ of another Color, 
and larger as Diofcorides himfelf fays : But if there 
fhould be a miftake in the Writing of a/.., Lini, 
flax, for Keiv. vel rieivu, Lilij, Lilly , (as was eaiy 
in Coppying Manufcripts, belbre the Myllery of 
Printing was invented ; ) the flip ot the Pen being 
botheafy and likely,) then it is out of all doubt, 
that 
