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 plant I thought fittest to place here in the beginning of this
_Classis_, not finding where better to shroud it. It hath two or three
long, and very narrow leaues, as greene as the leaues of the great
_Leucoium bulbosum_, and shining withall, which grow sometimes reddish,
especially at the edges: the stalke riseth vp a spanne high, bearing
one flower and no more on the head thereof, standing vpright like a
little Lilly or Tulipa, made of six leaues, wholly white, both within
and without, except that at the bottome next to the stalke, and a
little on the backside of the three outer leaues, it hath a small dash
or shew of a reddish purple colour: it hath in the middle a few chiues,
standing about a small head pointed; which head groweth to bee small
and long, containing small blackish flat seede: the roote is small,
long, and round, a little blackish on the outside, and white on the
inside.
The Place.
This bulbous plant was brought vs from Virginia, where they
grow aboundantly; but they hardly thriue and abide in our
Gardens to beare flowers.
The Time.
It flowreth in May, and seldome before.
The Names.
The Indians in Virginia do call it _Attamusco_, some among vs
do call it _Lilionarcissus Virginianus_, of the likenesse of
the flower to a Lilly, and the leaues and roote to a Daffodill.
Wee for breuity doe called it _Narcissus Virgineus_, that is,
The Daffodill of Virginia, or else you may call it according to
the former Latine name, The Lilly Daffodill of Virginia, which
you will; for both names may serue well to expresse the plant.
_Narcissus angustifolius albidus præcox oblongo calice._
The early white narrow leafed Daffodill with a long cup.
This Daffodill hath three or foure narrow, long, and very green leaues,
a foot long for the most part: the stalke riseth not vp so high as the
leaves, whereon standeth one flower, not altogether so great as the
late flowring Daffodill, with a long cuppe, described before among
the broad leafed ones, which consisteth of six pale coloured leaves,
not pure white, but hauing a wash of light yellow among the white:
the cuppe in the middle is round and long, yet not so long as to bee
accounted a bastard Daffodill, within which is a middle pointell,
compassed with six chiues, hauing yellow mealy pendents.
The Place.
The Daffodill groweth with the other sorts of broad leafed
ones, on the Pyrenæan Mountaines, from whence they have beene
brought vnto vs, to furnish our Gardens.
The Time.
It flowreth early, a month before the other sorts of the same
fashion, that is, in the beginning of March, if the time be
milde, which the other before spoken of the doe not.
The Names.
It hath no other name that I know, then is expressed in the
title.
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