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 lesser Daffodill hath broader and shorter leaues then the former,
of the colour of other Daffodils, and not greene like the former: the
stalke of this riseth vp higher then the leaues, bearing foure or
fiue flowers vpon shorter footestalkes, and no bigger then the French
Daffodill, of a pale yellow, which most doe call a Brimstone colour,
the cup or rather crowne in the middle, is small, and broad open, of a
little deeper yellow, hauing many chiues within it, and is as it were
sprinkled ouer with a kinde of mealinesse. The smell of this is not
full so pleasant as the former.
The Place.
Both these haue been gathered on the Pyrenæan Mountaines, and
both likewise haue been sent out of Italy.
The Time.
They both flower in the middle time of the Daffodils flowring,
that is, in Aprill.
The Name.
They haue their Latine names expressed in their titles and so
are their English also, if you please so to let them passe; or
else according to the Latine, you may call them, The greater
and the lesser Brimstone coloured Daffodils; some haue called
them _Narcissus Italicus_, but the Italians themselues haue
sent them by the name of _Narcisso Solfarigno_.
_Narcissus totus albus polyanthos._
The milke white Daffodill many vpon a stalke.
The leaues of this Daffodill are of a meane size, both for length
and breadth, yet somewhat greener then in the ordinary sorts, that
haue some whitenesse in them: the flowers are many vpon the stalke,
as small for the most part, as any of these kindes that beare many
together, being wholly of a milke, or rather snow white colour, both
the cuppe, which is small, and the outer leaues that compasse it; after
which come small heads, wherein is contained round blacke seede, as
all other Daffodils doe, although some greater, and others lesser,
according to the proportion of the plants: the roote is couered ouer
with a blackish skinne or coate; the smell is very sweete.
There are two other sorts more of this kinde, the differences whereof
are, that the one hath his leaues somewhat broader, and the flowers
greater then the former: And the other smaller leaues and flowers also,
whose cups being small, are neuer seene fully open, but as it were
halfe closed at the brimmes.
_Narcissus latifolius totus albus, mediocri calice reflexus._
The milke white Daffodill with the great cup.
There is yet another sort of these milke white Daffodils, whose leaues
are as broad as any of the former, and whose cup in the middle of the
flower, is somewhat larger then in any of the lesser sorts, and lesser
then in the greater kinde: but the leaues of the flowers doe a little
turne themselues vpwards, which maketh a chiefe difference.
The Place.
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