The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.

To make Roses, Floures, Gillefloures, and of all other sortes, white, redde, greene, yellowe, and incarnate in short space.

TAke fatte yearth or claie asmuche as you will, and drie it so well in the Sunne that you may make a fine pouder of i••. Then putte it into the vessell wherin you will plante your Vio∣lettes, Roses, or white naturall floures, for to make theim growe of an other colour. Then plante in the said pouder those that you will haue not suffring thē to feele any other moisture than this that followeth. If you will haue them redde, take water, and seeth in it some Brasile cut very small, and lette it seeth vntill it be diminished of the thirde or fourth part, and wa∣ter by little and little morning and euening the earth with this redde water beyng colde, and giue it no o∣ther water then this, vntill you thinke it hath taken effect and wrought as you would haue it. And if you will make theim Greene, take litt•••• Apples of Ner∣prum whan they bee thorowe ripe, and if you will haue them Yelowe take them whan they be not ripe, and breake thē a little, & seeth theim in water, and the firste will be Greene, and the other that bee not ripe will be Yellow. And with the said water, water your earth, and the floure will growe of the same colour,

and water it vntill the plant or roote be thorouly wa∣tered, whiche wil be, in continuyng it the space of xv. or xx. daies. And if you will make them black, you shal make the water with gall and vitrioll, as menne doe make incke, and if you doe water the earth with it as you doe the other, the white floure will growe black, but leaue it not abrode in the night time, for feare of the dewe. True it is that all the whole floure will not be of that colour: but partly, so that it will take parte of twoo colours. If you will make them of three co∣lours, water them in the morning with one colour on one side, and at night with the same colour on the o∣ther side: then in the morning on one side with ano∣ther colour, and at night with the same colour on the other side, so that it be watred in the morning and e∣uening with two maner of colours, in changing the sides: for there as you haue watred in the morninge with one colour put nothing at night but on the other side, and in doyng thus you shall haue your floure of three colours, and of this plante you maie make as many as you will, for this hath bene proued.