. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. •in THE COTTAGE GARDENEn. [Aniir, iw. events, the attention then paid to this ilower in l^ugliuul v,'iis as great even as at present. I'arkinson, in his " ; pnhlislieil in U;j(i, snys that " those who had been industrions in sowing the seeds of tlie several sorts" had so succeeded in raising vai-ieties that lie slionld not be able to enumerate them all. He describes, however, '^l varieties; and the draw- ing of one of these, " Tlie greatest faire yellow Beare's Eareswith eyes," shews tliat the florists bad in
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. •in THE COTTAGE GARDENEn. [Aniir, iw. events, the attention then paid to this ilower in l^ugliuul v,'iis as great even as at present. I'arkinson, in his " ; pnhlislieil in U;j(i, snys that " those who had been industrions in sowing the seeds of tlie several sorts" had so succeeded in raising vai-ieties that lie slionld not be able to enumerate them all. He describes, however, '^l varieties; and the draw- ing of one of these, " Tlie greatest faire yellow Beare's Eareswith eyes," shews tliat the florists bad indeed much improved the flower; for, in the sketches given by Gerard and Lyte, the pips are small, and only four or live in a truss, but in this and others, given by Parkinson, the pips are large, and increased in number to from 8 to lii. The raising varieties from seed was tlien well known, but regular canons for distinguishing a good flower were not yet established, as they probably were when the " Complete Florilege" was published by Jolin Rea, Gent.: in tlie third edition of which work, printed in 1702, there are many varieties noticed, and named after their raisers. Mr. Hughes, in his " Flower Garden," published m 1072, gives a short direction for its cultivation ; and is the first writer on gardening wo have met with who speaks of it as the "; The cultivation of this flower continued to increase in favour; and it is the first of our show flowers of which canons were published in a separate work, whereby the superiority of rival flowers might be determined. The work in which these canons, or rules, appeared was written by Mr. James Thompson, a florist of Newcastle; and printed at that town, in 17-')7, under the title of " The distinguishing properties of a fine ; These, however, were not the first; for that fertile writer on such subjects, Richard Bradley, in his " New Improvements of Gardening," publishe
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