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54 high ometimes, bearing one flower thereon, compoed of ixe long and pointed leaues of the forme of other mall Tulipas, and not hewing much bigger then the yellow Italian Tulipa, and is wholly white, both inide and outide of all the leaues, except the three outtermot, which haue on the backe of them, from the middle toward the edges, a hew of a brownih bluh or pale red colour, yet deeper in the midt, and the edges remaining wholly white: the bottomes of all thee leaues are of a darke or dun tawnie colour, and the chiues and tippes of a darkih purple or tawnie alo. This doth beare eed but eldome in our country, that euer I could vndertand, but when it doth, it is mall like vnto the Bolonia or dwarfe yellow Tulipas, being not o plentifull alo in parting, or etting of by the roote as they, and neuer groweth nor abideth o great as it is brought vnto vs, and eldome likewie flowreth after the firt yeare: for the rootes for the mot part with euery one grow lee and lee, decaying euery yeare, and o perih for the mot part by reaon of the frots and cold, and yet they haue been et deepe to defend them, although of their owne nature they will runne downe deep into the ground.

The mall Tulipa of Contantinople, beareth for the mot part but two leaues on the talke, which are faire and broad, almot like vnto the Candy Tulipa, next hereunto to be decribed: the talke it elfe rieth not aboue a foote high, bearing ometimes but one flower, but mot commonly two thereon, one below another, and are no bigger then the flowers of the yellow Bolonia Tulipa, but differing in colour; for this is on the outide of a purplih colour, mixed with white and greene, and on the inide of a faire bluh colour, the bottome and chiues being yellow, and the tippes or pendents blackih: the roote is very like the yellow Bolonia Tulipa.

This Tulipa is of later knowledge with vs then the Perian, but doth more hardly thriue, in regard of our cold climate; the decription whereof, for o much as wee haue knowledge, by the ight of the roote and leafe, and relation from others of the flower, (for I haue not yet heard that it hath very often flowred in our Country) is as followeth. It beareth faire broad leaues, reembling the leaues of a Lilly, of a greenih colour, and not very whitih: the talke beareth thereon one flower, larger and more open then many other, which is either wholly white, or of a deepe red colour, or ele is variably mixed, white with a fine reddih purple, the bottomes being yellow, with purplih chiues tipt with blackih pendents: the roote is mall, and omewhat like the dwarfe yellow Tulipa, but omewhat bigger.

This mall Tulipa is much differing from all the former (except the mall or dwarfe white Tulipas remembred by Lobel and Cluius, as is before et downe) in that it beareth three orfoure mall, long, and omewhat narrow greene leaues, altogether at one ioynt or place; the talke being not high, and naked or without leaues from them to the toppe, where it beareth one mall flower like vnto an ordinary red Tulipa, but omewhat more yellow, tending to an Orenge colour with a blacke bottome : the roote is not much bigger then the ordinary yellow Bolonia Tulipa, before et downe. And thee are the orts of this firt Clasis of early Tulipas.

For any other, or further decription of this kinde of Tulipa, it hall not neede, hauing giuen it ufficiently in the former early Tulipa, the maine difference coniting firt in the time of flowring, which is about a moneth after the early Tulipas, yet ome more ome lee: for euen in the Præcoces, or early ones, ome flower a little earlier, and later then others, and then in the colours of the flowers; for wee haue oberued many Rh