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
The roote as well as the leaues of this Daffodill, are greater, larger,
broader, and longer then in any other of the former French, or Italian
kindes; the stalke is as high as any of them, bearing at the toppe fiue
or sixe white flowers, standing open spread like a starre, and not
close together, euery one whereof is large, and round pointed, the cup
is yellow, small and short, yet not lying flat to the flower, but a
little standing out with some threads in the middle, as all the former
Daffodils haue. This is not so sweete as the earlier kindes.
9. _Narcissus medioluteus alter serotinus calice breui._
The lesser late flowring French Daffodill.
This Daffodill is of the same kinde with the last described, the onley
difference is, that it is lesser, and the yellow cuppe in the middle of
the flower, is somewhat shorter then the former, although the former be
shorter then many others, otherwise it differeth not, no not in time;
for it flowreth late as the former doth.
The Place.
These Daffodils haue been brought vs from diuers places; The
first and second grow naturally in many places of Spaine, that
are open to the Sea: they grow likewise about Mompelier, and
those parts in France. They haue been likewise sent among many
other sorts of Daffodils from Constantinople, so that I may
thinke, they grow in some places neere thereunto.
The fourth groweth plentifully in Italy, about Pisa in Tuscane,
from whence we haue had plants to furnish our Gardens.
The seuenth is accounted beyond Sea to be naturall of our
Country, but I know not any with vs that haue it, but they haue
had it from them.
The rest haue been brought at diuers times, but wee know no
further of their naturall places.
The Time.
The first flowreth earlier then any of the rest by a moneth,
euen in the beginning of March, or earlier, if the weather
be milde. The other in Aprill, some a little before or after
another. The late kinds flower not vntill May.
The Names.
There can be no more said of the names of any of them, then
hath beene set out in their titles; for they distinguish euery
sort as fitly as we can: onely some doe call the first two
sorts, by the name of _Donax Narbonensis_.
After all these Daffodils, that hauing broad leaues beare single
flowers, either one or many vpon a stalke, I shall now goe on to set
forth those broad leafed Daffodils, that carry double flowers, either
one or many vpon a stalke together, in the same order that we haue vsed
before.
1. _Narcissus albus multiplex._ The double white Daffodill.
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