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Show The Garden of. pleafant Flowers. The Garden ofpleafant Flowers.) one-flower thereon , compofed of fixe.ong and pointed joh fometi formebearingofbi {mall Tulipas, andnot fhewing muchbigger then the yc Pcsofthc of all the leaues , cx) Italian Tulipa, and is wholly white, bothinfide and outfide Jow cept the three outtermoft, which haue on the backe ofthem, fromthe middle 't owa rd t, and the edges, athew of a brownith bluth, orpale red colour, yet deeper in the m ea leaues are ofa darkeor theedges remaining wholly white : the bottomes of all thefe This duntawnie colour, and the chiues and tippes. ofa darkith purple or tawnic alfo. doth beare feed but feldomein our Country, that ener I could vnderftand,bur when it dothyit is {mall like vntothe Bolonia or dwarfeyellow Tulipas,being notfo plentiful fo alfo in parting , or fetting ofby the rogteasthey, |and never groweth nor abideth for yearé: thefirft after flowreth ewife {eldomelik and vntovs, grcatas it is brought the rootes forthe moft part with etery/orie growleffe andleffe, decaying euery yeare, atid(operith for the moftpart by reafon of the frofts and cold,and yet they haucbeen fer deepeto defend them, although oftheir owne nature they will ruhii¢ downedeep 1 into the ground. Talipa Byzantine duobusforibus Clyfj, The {mall Tulipa of Conftantinople. The fmall Tulipa ofConftantinople, beareth for the moft part buttwo Jeaues on the ftalke, which are faireand broad, almoft/like vntothe Candy;Tulipa, next here unto to be defcribed : the ftalke it felfe rifeth not aboueafoote high, bearing fome. timesbut onc flower, but moft commonlytwo thereon, one below another , and are no biggerthen the flowers ofthe yellow Bolonia Tulipa,but differing in colour; for this is on the outfide ofa purplith colour, mixed with white and greene, and onthe infide ofa faire bluth colour,the bottome andchiues being yellow y and the tippes ot pendents blackith : the rooteis very likethe yellow Bolonia Tulipa. ‘Tulipacretica. The Tulipa ofCandie, ‘This Tulipa is oflater knowledge with vs then the Perfian, but doth more hardly thriue, in regardof our cold climate; the defcription whereof, for fo much as we haue knowledge,by the fight oftherooteandleafe,’and relation from others ofche flower, (for Lhaue not yet heard that ithath veryoften Alowred in our Country) isas followeth. Iv beareth faire’broad leaues, refembling the leaues of a Lilly,ofa greenifh colour, and not very whitith: the ftalke beareth thereon one flower , larger and mort open then many other, whichis eyther wholly white, or of 4 deepe'red colour, ot elfeis variably mixed, white with ajfine reddifh purple, the bottomes being yellow, withpurplith chives tipt with blackith pendents : the rooteis fmall. and fomewhit likethe dwarfe ycllow Tulipa, but fomewhat bigger. 2 Tulips Armeniaca. The Tulipa of Armenia. This {mall Tulipais muchdiffering from all thef white Tulipas rechctih m ai the dwarf e st by Lobel?and Clufiu n s former(except ‘as is before the fmalbor i beareth three orfoure fmall, long, and fomewhat narrow Pic ead one toyator place ; the talke being not high, and naked or withouta t leauies fam then tothe toppe, whereit beareth one {mall fowetlikevntoan ordina ry red Tulipa but fomewhat more yellow , tending to an Orenge colour with a blacke bgbcrdents the rooteis notmuch bigger then the ordinary yellow Balonia Tulipa , before { downe And thefeare the forts ofthisfirft Cla/su ofearly Tulipas. f . Foranyother, Siete,or further defcription ofthis kinde of lipa, i a wing giuca it fufficiently inthe fo Tulip,it hall not neede,h paar : ormer carly Tulipa, the maine difference confilting firft in the time of flowring, whichis about a moneth after the early Tulipas, yet fom ; in'the Prxcoces, and fo alfofomeinthe Prececes, which are not in the AZediaé : yet there isfarre greater yari¢ties'ofmixture oficolouts in thele Atedias , then hath been obferuediinall the Precoces, (although Clufius faith otherwife)eyther by myfelfe,or by any other that T haue conuerfed:with about this matter, and all this hath happened by the fowing ofthe feede, as Tfaid before. :Ewilltherefore in this place not trouble you with any further circumftanice; then todiftinguifh them, asI haue done inthe former carly Tolipass fitto their foure primary colours,and vaderthem,giue youtheirfeuerall, varietics and names, fot fomuch.as hathicometo my kaowledge,;-not doubting; but that many that-haue travelled inthe fowingof the feed of Tulipas manyyeares, may abferie ¢achofthem to hauefome variety that others haue not: and therefore thinke no one man can come to the knowledge of all particular diftinctions. Tulipa medis alba. or carly ones,fome Rowera little earlier;and inthe colours ofthe flowers ; for wee haue obferued many colours, The white mieaneflowring Tulipa. 1 Afnow white, witha white or yellow 1 Nines, fundo aloo vel Luteo. 2 Argentes; quafi alba cineracea fundo lute- bottome. feente, purparetsflaminibus, 2A filuer colour, that is, a vety pale or whitifh afhe colour, with a yellowifh Margaritina alba carnco dilutifsima, 4 Alba,fundosaraleo vel nigro, bottomeand purple chiues. 5 Abida. 3 A Pearle colour, thatis, white; witha 6 Alba, orts rubris. i Feeatiia generain wathor fhewofblufh. a tase aliquibus conftan- 7. Alba,parparcisort. Se tenbrelddaLin | 4 A white, witha blew orblack bottome, 3 Alba; oris coccinéts. alys dilperguat. | 5 ACreame colour. 9 Albids primum, deinde albidsor, ort pur-.| 6 Awhite, with red edges. ao jold. thein edges conftant purets, & ventsintrorefpictentibus; witha 7 Awhite, with purple edges. in fome » but well fpredd in @= nobus Hackquenay, | 8 A white,with crimfon edges. thers, 10 Alba, fanguineo colore variata, fando vel | 9 Apale or whitifh yellow, whichaftera albifsimo, vetalio. few dayes groweth more white, with purplith red edges, and fomeftreakes 11Alba, radiatim difpofita flaramis , or macults coccinets, 12 Alba, porparea rubedine plumata, diver. faram [pecierum, que cum [aperiore, vel| running inward from theedge; which we call an Hackney. 10 Awhite mixed with abloud red very variably, and with a pure white, or other.coloured bottome. 11 Awhite,{treamed with crimfon flames, quatuer dierum {patinm pulcbriones appa- | and {pots throughthe whole flower, rent. | 12 Awhite, fpeckled, with a reddifh pur- albo,velluteo,vel parno ceruleo. constamt fundo, qua conflanter tenent-punclatas catores,c> non difoergunt,fed pofl triumant Lz Pani argentei colorts, 7.4. alba,plumata, punclata,flriata, vel diverfimodt variate,| rubedinedilutiore, vel faturatiore purpy- | ple, moreorleffe, of diuers forts, with white, yellow, or blew bottomes, all which doe hold their markes conftant, rea, interins vel exterius , vel UtHiNG,, and doe not {pread their colours ,. but vel alio: 1§ Holiaselbs vel albids; aby, funde, vel awhitefpotted, f{triped, or otherwife marked withred or purple, in fome paler,in fome deeper,cither onthe infide, thew. fairer after they haue ftood blown dinerfarum [pecierums. 14 Tunica morionis alba varie, i.e, exialbo | three or foure dayes, o> perpurce firiata dincrfimodc,fundo albe 13 A cloth offiluer ofdiuersforts, that is, fando parpureocarulee,vel ceruleo alba circundato,dinerse fignata, vel variate jntws ad medsetatem foliorum.,. /urfurniaorkem vt plarimum , vel ad ora pertingens am-| plas Gr albas, Ha [pecies tantopere mufti- Tulips media. Themeaner or middle flowring Tulipa. ae faa := oemeeinthe Precaces, coldurs,andmixtures; or varitties ofcolours in the Medias, which we couldneuer fee plicantar, vt vix fint explicabiless or oh the outfide, or.on both, 14 Awhite Fooles coate of diuers forts; that is, purple or pale crimfon, and white, as it were empaled together, eyther with a white ground or other, whereof there is great variety. 15 A white Holias, that is, a faire white,or paler white, eyther without a bottome, or with a blewith purple bottome, or blew and white circling the ae an |