ixyG Salmon s Herbal. Lib. I. 
CCCLXVI. 7. Star of Venus. It is a large 
Flower, of a good carnation color, marked and 
veined with pale yellow at firft, which after turns 
white : the bottom and chives both blew. 
CCCLXVI1. 8. Tenebris. It is a large ftrong 
Flower, of a dark, deep red color, like that called 
De Roy, with fmall Veins of Peach color, a fmall 
pale yellow bottom, and dark brown chives. 
CCCLXVIII. 9. Tunica Morionis. It is an 
inferior kind of the Rato Madam, or yellow Crown. 
The Flower is more yellow than red, for which 
reafon fome call' it the tools Coat the bottom and 
chives are yellow. 
CCCLXIX. 10. Zcablom Serot'm £. It is a 
weak Stalked low Flower, of a deep red color, 
feathered and marked with fome gredeline at firft, 
a pale yellow, which after turns white : the bot- 
tom and chives are a dark blew. 
CCCLXX. The Places. The Tulip is an Afia- 
tick or Turkijh Flower, firft lent to us from Dal- 
matia , Conflantinople, and other parts of Turky, 
and therefore called alfo Dalmatian Cap , and 
Turks Cap : In the Woods and Fields of Dalma- 
tia, Cappadocia, Bithynia, Aleppo, alfo in Mace- 
donia, Thracia and Tripolis , they are faid to grow 
naturally Wild, but with us only in Gardens. 
CCCLXXI. The Times. The Prtcoces Flower 
with us in February, (if the Winter is mild,) and 
all March , and fometimes in a warm Winter in 
January. The Mediae Flower all April, and fome 
part of the beginning of May. The Serotina Flow- 
er from the middle of May, fometime^to the mid- 
dle of June -, but if the Seafons are cold, they 
fometimes Flower a Month longer. However, 
they arc an Ornament to our Gardens for more than 
three complete Months. 
The CULTURE. 
CCCLXXII. For the choice of Seed to Sow. 
Chi Jilts fays the White Prncox gives the greateft 
Variety ot colors, (fcarcely fo from the Red : ) but 
if the White has any mixture of Red or Purple 
in it, the Variety is more eminent. Next to the 
White, the Purple is faid to he the beft, and the 
next thereto is the Purple with white edges ; and 
fo likewil'e the Red with yellow edges ; each of 
them will bring molt of their own colors. 
CCCLXX1II. The Seed of the bed Medin is to 
be taken from thofe which are light colored, ra- 
ther White than Yellow and rather Purple than 
Red ; yea White not Yellow ; and Purple not Red : 
But of thefe again, the Spotted are the beft, and 
the more Spotted the better. But withal, and in 
all thefe, refpefl the ground or bottom of the 
Flower, (which in a Prsecox cannot be, for they 
feldom have any other ground than yellow ; which 
if the Flower be white, ot whitilh fpotted ot 
edged, and ftraked, and the bottom blew or pur- 
ple, (as in the Holin'; s, and Cloth of Silver J is be- 
yond all other the molt excellent, and yields the 
greateft, choiceft, and moll pleafant Variety.' 
The Seed of meaner Beauties, will yield you a 
meaner Variety. The Seed of the red or yellow 
Tulip, or their divers Mixtures, ate not worth 
the Sowing. 
CCCLXXI V . The Seed of the Serotinn , (which 
are feldom leen with any fpecial Beautiful Vari- 
ety of colors) can bring forth no rarities ; and for 
the Reafons before fpecified, little or no diverfity 
at all. 
CCCLXXV. Therefore to have Tu/ip Seed, 
from whence you may reafonably expeFl Beauti- 
ful Flowers ; your beft way will be to leave fome 
for Seed, which are very fine and large, to the 
end, that being of a Noble Kind, you may rati- 
onally hope for fomething excellent from them ; 
and yet in this matter. Nature fome times deceives 
our greateft expe&ations. 
CCCLXXVI. For Seeds , be lure to make 
choice of fuch Flowers as have the ftrongeft Stalks 
and the Seed Veffel three cornered, of liich kinds 
as are molt conftantly well marked, and fuch as 
have the hottoms and chives either blew or pur- 
ple, (which is rarely to Le found in the Preecoces,) 
whofe bottoms are commonly either white or yel- 
low ; yet there is one excellent kind, viz. the 
Omen, deferibed in Soli. XCVI. aforegoing, which 
aptly marks with three colors, and has the bot- 
tom and chives both blew, from the Seed ofwhich. 
many fine Varieties may be raifed ; and next to 
this, are the Florizantine, Maritlion, Cremfme , 
Admiral Encufcn, and Perijhot ; the reft of the 
well Marked Pracoces, may produce tollerable 
Varieties, tho not like the Omen : But Seeds from 
the Vice-Roy , and Varieties of Edgers, feldom pro- 
duce better than their Originals. 
CCCLXXVI 1. The Seed of the Meiit afford 
many mote excellent Varieties, as that taken from 
the Angelica, Anvers Blew, all the Brahafons, 
Carthago, Cedo Nielli, Diana, Dorothy of Holland , 
Florifon Paragon, General Bolfon, JeronParagon, 
Tudart-Royal, Turgiana Princefs , Virgin Orient, and 
fevetal others ; thefe here named, being well mark- 
ed with different colors, with blew or purple bot- 
toms and chives, are not apt to run, but will abide 
conftant to the laft. 
CCCLXXVII1. But tho’ we make choice of 
the beft Flowers for Seed, yet often times we fail 
of out purpofe, becaufe fome times the Roots loofe 
their Fibres, and the Stalks dry before the Seed 
comes to be half ripe. To prevent which, make 
choice of the ftrongeft Roots you have, of fuch 
Flowers you defign for Seed, and fet them in that 
part of the Garden molt expofed to the Sun, fix or 
feven Inches in the Ground, by which means 
you will gain good ripe Seed, from almolt any 
Flower. 
CCCLXX1X. About the middle of July, 
fooner or later, as the Seafon is hotter or colder, 
the Seed will be ready for gathering, which may 
be known by the drinels of the Stalks, and open- 
ing of the Seed Velfels, which gather, (and take 
up the Roots,) letting the Seed remain in the Pods, 
until the end of September, and then they may be 
taken out, which being cleanfed from the Chaffy 
and Sowed in Beds of fine Sifted Earth, efpecially 
the more ordinary forts. 
CCCLXXX. The time and manner of Sowing 
the Seed is next to be confidered. Sow them not 
in the Spring, if you hope for any good Flowers, 
but in the Autumn, ot prefently after they be 
through ripe and dry ; yet if you Sow them not 
till the end of OSober, they will come forwartUje- 
ver the wotfe, but the better. For it is often Wen, 
that out early Sowing caufes them to fpring out 
of the Ground too early, fo that if a (harp cold 
Spring chances to follow, it may hazard their 
fpoiling, if not of all, yet of moll part of the 
Seed. 
CCCLXXXI. The fame Years Seed is that 
which we commonly Sow, but if the Seed is two 
Years old, and that it was at firft good Seed, and 
well kept, being then Sow’d, it will thrive and do 
well enough, especially if it was perfectly ripe 
and well gathered ; and in Sowing it, you mull 
obferve not to Sow it too thick, for if the Seed 
lyes one upon another, that it has not room upon 
