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
2. _Narcissus mediocroceus tenuifolius._
The small Daffodill with a Saffron crown.
This small Daffodill hath foure or fiue narrow leaues, about a spanne
long, among which riseth vp a stalke some nine inches high, bearing
at the toppe one small white flower, made of six leaues, with a small
yellow cup in the middle, shadowed ouer at the brimmes with a Saffron
colour: the roote is small, rounded, and little long withall, couered
with a blackish skinne or coate.
3. _Narcissus minimus mediopurpureus._
The least purple ringed Daffodill.
This little Daffodill hath small narrow leaues, shorter by much then
any of the purple ringed Daffodils, before described: the stalke and
flower keepe an equal proportion to the rest of the plant, being in
forme and colour of the flower, like vnto the Starre Daffodill before
recited, but vnlike in the greatnesse: this also is to bee obserued,
that the purple colour that circleth the brimmes of the cuppe, is so
small, that sometimes it is not well perceiued.
4. _Narcissus minimus Iuncifolij flore._ The least Daffodill of all.
This least Daffodill hath two or three whitish greene leaues, narrower
then the two last recited Daffodils, and shorter by halfe, being but
aboue two or three inches long, the stalke likewise is not aboue three
or foure inches high, bearing one single flower at the toppe, somewhat
bigger then the smalnesse of the plant should seeme to beare, very like
vnto the least Rush Daffodill, and of the same bignesse, or rather
somewhat bigger, being of a faint yellow colour, both leaues, and
cup, or crowne, (if you please so to call it); for the middle part is
spread very much, euen to the middle of the leaues almost, and lyeth
flat open vpon the flower: the roote is small, euen the smallest of any
Daffodill, and couered with a blackish skinne or coate.
The Place.
The first of these Daffodils haue beene brought vs from the
Pyrenæan Mountaines, among a number of other rare plants, and
the last by a French man, called Francis le Veau, the honestest
roote-gatherer that euer came ouer to vs. The second was sent
to Mʳ. Iohn de Franqueuille, before remembred, who imparted
it to mee, as hee hath done many other good things; but his
naturall place wee know not.
The Time.
They all flower about the latter end of Aprill.
The Names.
Being brought without names, wee haue giuen them their names
according to their face and fashion, as they are set downe in
their titles.
_Narcissus Autumnalis minor albus._
The little white Autumne Daffodill.
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