If you would haue your Lillyes of a purple colour, you shall stéepe your séedes in the Lées of red wine, and that will change their complexion, and also you shall water the Plants with the same Lées likewise: if you will haue them scarlet red, you shall put Vermillion or Cynaber betwéene the rinde and the small heads growing about the roote: if you would haue them blew, you shall dissolue Azure or Byse betwéene the rinde and the heads, if yellow Orpment, if gréene Verdigreace, and thus of any other colour.
To make Lillyes flourish all the yeere.
Now to make them flourish euery moneth in the yéere, you shall sowe your séedes some a foote déepe, some halfe a foote, and some not two inches, so they will spring one after another, and flourish one after another.
Of the wood Lilly.
The wood Lilly or Lilly of the vale, delighteth most in a moyst ground, and may be sowen either in March or September, it is very faire to looke on, and not so suffocating in smell as the other Lillyes are.
Of the flower de Lice.
The flower de Lice is of excellent beauty, but not very pleasant to smell to, it loueth a dry ground & an easie mould, and is fittest to be sowen in the moneth of March.
Of Pyonie.
Pyonie or the blessed Rose, loueth a good fat earth being somewhat loose, and may be sowen either in March or September, it asketh not much watring, onely some support because the stalkes be weake.
Of Petillius.