172 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
wife from Haulton.” “ June 1655 Lord Lambert, I sent him 
by Rose a very great mother-root of Agate Hanmer.” This 
was a tulip grown in his own garden at Bettisfield ; its colours 
were gris de lin, crimson and white. Sir Thomas Hanmer 
has also left notes on their culture. “ Set them in the ground 
about the full moon in September about four inches asunder 
and under four inches deep, set the early ones where the sun in 
the spring may come hot on them. Set the later kinds where 
the noon sun may not be too fierce on them. Let the earth 
be mold taken from the fields, or where woodstacks have 
been, and mix it with a fourth part or more of sand. Make 
your beds at least half a yard thick of this mold. Tulips live 
best planted alone, but you may put some anemonies with 
them on the outside the beds if they be raised high and round. 
They will come up in December and January, and the early 
sorts flower in the latter end of March, and beginning of April, 
the other a fortnight or more after them. Set the mother- 
roots by themselves, and the young offsets by themselves. 
The new varieties of tulips come from sowing their seeds, but 
the seedlings will be five years at least before they bear a 
flower. Keep old strong roots for seed, of such kinds as have 
blue cup and purple chives, and are striped with pure white, 
and carnations or gridelines or murreys. The single colours 
with blue cups or bottoms, and purple chives will most of them 
parrach or stipe, and will stand two years unremoved when the 
roots are old.” 
A further catalogue of the contents of the flower garden at 
Bettisfield in 1660 is chiefly a list of its tulips. Each bed is 
mentioned, and every row of bulbs taken separately, and the 
name of each bulb, as many as thirteen ranks, all carefully 
arranged. But other flowers also found corners, although not 
allowed beds to themselves. This was another bed at Bettis¬ 
field. “ In the middle of this bed is one Double Crown 
Imperial. In the end are six rows of Iris raised from seed by 
Rea ; also polyanthuses and daffodils. In the four corners 
of this second bed are four roots of good anemonies.” In one 
there was a preponderance of Narcissus, all described “ Belles 
du Val narcissi, all yellow.” ... " Belle Selmane narcissi, 
right dear ones,” and so on. “ The border under the South 
