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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 & 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

Name: 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
Author: Parkinson, John

Parkinson, John

Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800

The leaues of this Daffodill are almost as broad and long as the
former, the stalke is a foot high and more, bearing foure or fiue
flowers on the top, euery one very double, and of a fine pale yellow
colour, of a strong heady sent. The root of this is also like the
former.


        The Place.

        The first of these Daffodils, was full brought into England
        by Mʳ. Iohn de Franqueuille the elder, who gathered it in his
        owne Countrey of Cambray, where it groweth wild, from whose
        sonne, Mʳ. Iohn de Franqueuille, now liuing, we all haue had
        it. The rest haue come from Constantinople at seuerall times;
        and the last is thought to come from Cyprus. Wee haue it
        credibly affirmed also, that it groweth in Barbary about Fez
        and Argiers. Some of the double white kindes grow in Candy, and
        about Aleppo also.


        The Time.

        The Turkie kindes doe for the most part all flower early, in
        the end of March, or beginning of Aprill at the furthest, and
        the first double, about the middle or end of April.


        The Names.

        All these Daffodils, except the first, haue had diuers Turkish
        names set vpon the packets, wherein they haue been sent, but
        there is small regard of certainty to be expected from them;
        for that the name _Serincade_, without any more addition, which
        is a single Daffodill, hath beene imposed vpon that parcell of
        rootes, that have borne most of them double flowers of diuers
        sorts; and the name _Serincade Catamer lale_ which signifieth a
        double flowered Daffodill, hath had many single white flowers,
        with yellow cups, and some whose flowers have been wholly
        white, cuppe and all, and some purple ringed, and double also
        among them. Their names, whereby they are knowne and called
        with vs, are, as fitly as may be, imposed in their titles: And
        this I hope shall suffice, to have spoken of these sorts of
        Daffodils.

Hauing finished the discourse of the former sort of broad leafed
Daffodils, it is fit to proceede to the next, which are _Angustifolios
Narcissos_, those Daffodils that have narrow leaures, and first to set
down those that beare single flowers, whether one or many flowers vpon
a stalke, and then those that beare double flowers in the same manner.


_Narcissus Virginens._   The Virginia Daffodill.

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