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It is well known to those that have it, and so is any other Flower; therefore I shall give a short description of it, to sa∣tisfie those that are not acquainted with it. This Flower, when it is at its full growth, is at the height of a man, onely with one stalk, and that is as big at the nether end of a mans hand-rist; upon the stalk are many leaves something like Mallow-leaves, in colour and in bigness, but they are not di∣vided: this one plant beareth but one Flower, and that is at the very top of all, and is of a great bigness, so that some of them are thirty inches about, and of a black and yellow colour, bending it self down, and inclining after the Sunne; it flowereth in August.
The season fit for sowing of them is in April, on this man∣ner: Prepare a border, then prick in these seeds with your finger at half afoot asunder; they come up suddenly after their setting, they ought to be replanted after they are half afoot high into a rich earth, where they may have good store of rotten dung under them, to the end they may grow large; you must water them often, for it is a plant requireth much moisture, so it will grow up and flower, and bring forth seed which you may save and sow again: the root and branch of this Flower dieth every year.