Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertuesParkinson, John
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues
Parkinson, John
Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800
This Daffodill is surely a kinde of it selfe, although it be so like
the former, abiding constant in his forme and manner of flowring,
vsually bearing without missing two flowers vpon a stalke, very like
vnto the former great white kinde, that one cannot know any greater
matter of difference betweene them, then that it beareth two flowers
on a stalke: the cuppes whereof are seldome touched with any shew of
Saffron colour on them at the brimmes or edges, as some of the former
haue.
The Place.
All these Daffodils doe grow on the Pyrenæan mountaines, and
haue been sought out, and brought into these parts, by those
curious or couetous searchers of these delights, that haue made
vs partakers of them.
The Time.
The former kindes flower earlier by a fortnight then the later,
the one in the later end of March, and the other not vntill the
middle of Aprill.
The Names.
Their names are giuen to euery one of them in their seuerall
titles, as fitly as may best agree with their natures; and
therefore I shall not neede to speake any further of them.
_Narcissus medioluteus vulgaris._
The common white Daffodill called Primrose Peerlesse.
This Daffodill is so common in euery Country Garden almost through
England, that I doubt I shall but spend my time in vaine, to describe
that which is so well knowne, yet for their sakes that know it not,
I will set downe the description of it in this manner. It hath long
limber and broad leaues, of a grayish greene colour, among which riseth
vp a stalke, bearing at the toppe out of a skinnie huske sometimes
but one flower, but most commonly two flowers, and seldome three or
more, but larger for the most part, then any that beare many flowers
vpon a stalke, of a pale whitish Creame colour, tending somewhat neare
vnto the colour of a pale Primrose (which hath caused our Countrey
Gentlewomen, I thinke, to entitle it Primrose Peerlesse) with a small
round flat Crowne, rather then a cup in the middle, of a pale yellow
colour, with some pale chiues standing therein, being of a sweete, but
stuffing sent: the roote is reasonable great, and encreasing more then
a better plant.
_Narcissus mediocroceus serotinus._ The late flowring white Daffodill.
This Daffodill hath much smaller leaues, and shorter then the last,
the stalke also riseth not so high by much, and beareth but one flower
thereon, of a pure white colour, made of six small leaues, and somewhat
narrow, standing seuerally one from another, and not so close together
as the former, but appearing like a starre: the cup is small and round,
of a pale yellow colour, but saffrony about the brims, hauing six small
pale chiues in the middle, the smell whereof is much sweeter then in
the former.
The Place.
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