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
3. _Narcissus Narbonensis maior amplo flore._
The French Daffodill with great flowers.
The leaues of this Daffodill are somewhat like vnto the last, but
not so broad, yet full as long, and spring sooner out of the ground,
yet not so early as the first of these kindes: the stalke hereof is
flatter, and riseth higher, bearing foure or fiue flowers, much larger
then any of this kinde; for euery one of them doth equall the English
Daffodill, before described, but whiter then it, and the yellow cup
larger, and more open then in any of the rest. The roote of this is not
so great, or round, as the former, but is more plentifull in of-sets,
then any other of these French, or Italian kindes.
4. _Narcissus Pisanus._ The Italian Daffodill.
This Italian Daffodill hath his leaues as large, or larger then the
second French Daffodill, and his stalke somewhat higher, bearing many
white flowers, very like vnto the common French Daffodill, but somewhat
larger also; and the yellow cup in the middle likewise is larger, and
rounder, then is vsually seen in any of the French kinds, except the
last with the greatest flowers.
5. _Narcissus mediocroceus polyanthos._
The French Daffodill with Saffron coloured cups.
This French Daffodill hath diuers leaues of a grayish greene colour,
not so broad or long as the last recited Daffodill, but comming neerer
vnto the second French kinde, the flowers likewise are white, and many
vpon a stalke, like thereunto, but the yellow cup is somewhat large,
and circled with a Saffron like brimme or edge, which maketh the
chiefest difference.
6. _Narcissus mediocroceus alter, dictus Mussart._
Mussart his Daffodill.
The affinity between this & the last, (for it is not the same to be
expressed vnder one title) hath made me ioyne it next vnto it, yet
because it hath a notable difference, it deserueth a place by himselfe.
The leaues are large and long, and the flowers, being white, are
larger also then in any other, except the greatest, but the cup hereof
is small and short, rather seeming a coronet then a cup, of a deepe
Saffron colour all about the brimmes or edges.
7. _Narcissus Anglicus polyanthos._ The great English Daffodill.
This Daffodill hath his leaues not much broader or longer, then the
French kinde with great flowers, before described, the stalke with
flowers riseth not fully so high as it, bearing many flowers thereon,
not altogether so white, yet whiter then the former English Daffodill,
called Primrose Peerlesse, but nothing so large, and with short, broad,
and almost round leaues, standing close one vnto another: the yellow
cup in the middle is bowle fashion, being somewhat deeper then in any
of the former kinds, but not much greater: the smell hereof is very
sweete and pleasant.
8. _Narcissus Narbonensis, siue medio luteus serotinus maior._
The greater late flowring French Daffodill.
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