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
Thus farre haue I proceeded with those Daffodils, that hauing broad
leaues, beare but one single flower, or two at the most vpon a stalke:
And now to proceed with the rest, that haue broad leaues, and beare
single flowers, but many vpon a stalke.
_Narcissus Africanus aureus maior._
The great yellow Daffodill of Africa.
This braue and stately Daffodill hath many very long and broad leaues,
of a better green colour, then many others that are grayish, among
which appeareth a stalke, not rising to the height of the leaues,
bearing at the toppe out of a skinnie hose many faire, goodly, and
large flowers, to the number of ten or twelue, if the roote bee well
growne, and stand in a warme place, euery one being larger then any
of the French, Spanish, or Turkie Daffodils, that beare many single
flowers vpon a stalke, and commeth neere vnto the bignesse of the
English Daffodill, called Primrose Peerlesse, before described, or that
French kinde hereafter described, that beareth the largest flowers,
many vpon a stalke (which some would make to bee a kinde of English
Daffodill, but bearing more flowers) and of a faire shining yellow
colour, hauing large, round, and open cups or boules, yellower then the
outer leaues; and is of so exceeding sweete a sent, that it doth rather
offend the senses by the aboundance thereof: the roote is great, and
couered with a blackish browne coate or skinne.
_Narcissus Africanus aureus minor._ The lesser Barbary Daffodill.
This lesser kinde is very neere the same with the former, but that it
lacketh somewhat of his statlinesse of height, largenesse of flower and
cup (being a paler yellow) and beauty of colour, for it beareth neither
of these equall vnto the former, but is in them all inferiour. And thus
by this priuatiue, you may vnderstand his positive, and that shall be
sufficient at this time.
_Narcissus Byzantinus totus luteus._ The yellow Turkie Daffodill.
Whereas the last described, came short of the beauty of the former, so
this lacketh of that beauty is in the last; for this, although it haue
very long leaues, and a high stalke, yet the flowers are neither so
many, as not being aboue foure or fiue, nor so large, being not much
greater then the ordinary French Daffodill hereafter described, nor the
colour so faire, but much paler, and the cup also smaller; and herein
consisteth the chiefest differences betweene this, and both the other,
but that the sent of this is also weaker.
The Place.
The first and the second grow in Barbary, about Argiers, and
Fez, as by the relation of them, that haue brought them into
these parts, wee haue been enformed.
The last hath been often brought from Constantinople among
other varieties of Daffodils, but from whence they receiued
them, I could neuer learne.
The Time.
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