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Rh will flower naturally and contantly in the ame moneths one yeare, that they ve to doe in another, or with but little alteration, if the yeares proue not alike kindly: As for example, thoe plants that doe flower in January and February, will by no art or indutry of man be caued to flower in Summer or in Autumne; and thoe that flower in Aprill and May, will not flower in January or February; or thoe in Iuly, Augut, &c. either in the Winter or Spring: but euery one knoweth their owne appointed naturall times, which they contantly oberue and keepe, according to the temperature of the yeare, or the temper of the climate, being further North or South, to bring them on earlier or later, as it doth with all other fruits, flowers, and growing greene herbes, &c. except that by chance, ome one or other extraordinarily may be hindered in their due eaon of flowring, and o giue their flowers out of time, or ele to giue their flowers twice in the yeare, by the uperaboundance of nourihment, or the mildnee of the eaon, by moderate mowers of raine, &c. as it ometimes alo happeneth with fruits, which chance, as it is eldome, and not contant, o we then terme it but Luus naturæ: or ele by forcing them in hot toues, which then will perih, when they haue giuen their flowers or fruits. It is not then, as ome haue written, the owing of the eedes of Lillies, or any other plants a foote deepe, or halfe a foote deepe, or two inches deepe, that will caue them to be in flower one after another, as they are owne euery moneth of the yeare; for it were too groe to thinke, that any man of reaon and iudgement would o beleeue. Nor is it likewie in the power of any man, to make the ame plants to abide a moneth, two, or three, or longer in their beauty of flowring, then naturally they ve to doe; for I thinke that were no humane art, but a upernaturall worke. For nature till bendeth and tendeth to perfection, that is, after flowring to giue fruit or eede; nor can it bee hindered in the coure thereof without manifet danger of detruction, euen as it is in all other fruit-bearing creatures, which tay no longer, then their appointed time is naturall vnto them, without apparent damage. Some things I grant may be o ordered in the planting, that according to that order and time which is oberued in their planting, they hall hew forth their faire flowers, and they are Anemones, which will in that manner, that I haue hewed in the worke following, flower in euerall moneths of the yeare; which thing as it is incident to none or very few other plants, and is found out but of late, o likewie is it knowne but vnto a very few. Thus haue I hewed you the true olution of thee doubts: And although they haue not beene amplified with uch Philoophicall arguments and reaons, as one of greater learning might haue done, yet are they truely and incerely et downe, that they may erue tanquam galeatum, againt all the calumnies and objections of wilfull and obdurate perons, that will not be reformed. As firt, that all double flowers were o found wilde, being the worke of nature alone, and not the art of any man, by planting or tranplanting, at or before the new or full Moone, or any other oberuation of time, that hath caued the flower to grow double, that naturally was ingle: Secondly, that the rules and directions, to caue flowers to bee of contrary or different colours or ents, from that they were or would be naturally, are meere fancies of men, without any ground of reaon or truth. And thirdly, that there is no power or art in man, to caue flowers to hew their beauty diuers moneths before their naturall time, nor to abide in their beauty longer then the appointed naturall time for euery one of them.

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