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 leaues of this Daffodill are not very broad, but rather of a meane
size, being of the same largenesse with the leaues of the purple
ringed Daffodill, the stalke riseth vp to be a foote and a halfe
high, bearing out of a thinne white skinne or hose, one flower and no
more, consisting of many leaues, of a faire white colour, the flower
is larger then any other double white Daffodill, hauing euery leafe,
especially the outermost, as large almost as any leafe of the single
Daffodill with the yellow cup, or purple ring. Sometimes it happeneth,
that the flower is very little double, and almost single, but that
is either in a bad ground, or for that it hath stood long in a place
without remouing; for then it hath such a great encrease of rootes
about it, that it draweth away into many parts, the nourishment that
should be for a few: but if you doe transplant it, taking away the
of-sets, and set his rootes single, it will then thriue, and beare his
flower as goodly and double, as I haue before described it: and is very
sweete.
2. _Narcissus mediopurpureus multiplex._
The double purple ringed Daffodill.
There is little difference in the leaues of this kinde, from the leaues
of the single purple ringed Daffodill; for it is probable it is of
the same kinde, but by natures gift (and not by any humane art) made
more plentifull, which abideth constant, and hath not that dalliance,
which oftentimes nature sheweth, to recreate the senses of men for
the present, and appeareth not againe in the same forme: the chiefest
difference is, that the flower (being but sometimes one on a stalke,
and sometimes two) consisteth of six white outer leaues, as large as
the leaues of the single kinde, hauing many small yellow peeces, edged
with purple circles round about them, instead of a cup; and in the
middle of these peeces, stand other six white leaues, lesser then the
former, and a yellow cup edged with a purple circle likewise, parted
into peeces, and they comprehend a few other white leaues, smaller than
any of the other, hauing among them some broken peeces of the cup,
with a few chiues also in the middle of the flower. The flower is very
sweete.
There is of this kinde another, whose flower hath not so plaine a
distinction, of a triple rowe of leaues in it: but the whole flower is
confusedly set together, the outer leaues being not so large, and the
inner leaues larger then the former; the broken yellow cuppe, which is
tipt with purple, running diuersly among the leaues; so that it sheweth
a fairer, and more double flower then the former, as it is indeed.
3. _Narcissus medioluteus corona duplici._
The Turkie Daffodill with a double crowne.
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