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 little Autumne Daffodill riseth with his flowers first out of the
ground, without any leaues at all. It springeth vp with one or two
stalkes about a finger long, euery one bearing out of a small huske
one small white flower, laid open abroad like vnto the Starre white
Daffodill, before spoken of: in the middle of the flower is a small
yellow cup of a meane size, and after the flower is past, there commeth
in the same place a small head, containing small, round, blacke seede,
like vnto the Autumne Hyacinth: the leaues come vp after the seede is
ripe and gone, being small and narrow, not much bigger then the Autumne
Hyacinth: the roote is small and blackish on the outside.
The Place.
This Daffodill groweth in Spaine, where Clusius saw it, and
brought it into these parts.
The Time.
It flowreth in the beginning of Autumne, and his seede is ripe
in the end of October in those hot Countries, but in ours it
will scarce abide to shew a flower.
The Names.
The Spaniards, as Clusius reporteth, call it _Tonada_, and he
vpon the sight thereof, _Narcissus Autumnalis minor albus_,
and wee in English thereafter, The little white Autumne
Daffodill.
[Illustration:
1 _Narcissus Virgineus._ The Virginian Daffodill.
2 _Narcissus minimus Iuncifolij flore._ The least Daffodill of all.
3 _Narcissus Autumnalis minor albus._ The little white Autumne
Daffodill.
4 _Narcissus albus Autumnalis medio obsoletus._ The white Autumne
Daffodill with a sullen crown.
5 _Narcissus Iuncifolius maximus amplo calice._ The great Iunquilia
with the largest flower or cup.
6 _Narcissus totus albus flore pleno Virginianus._ The double white
Daffodill of Virginia.
]
_Narcissus albus Autumnalis medio obsoletus._
The white Autumne Daffodill with a sullen crowne.
This Autumne Daffodill hath two or three leaues at the most, and very
narrow, so that some doe reckon it among the Rush Daffodils, being
somewhat broad at the bottome, and more pointed at the toppe, betweene
these leaues commeth vp the stalke, bearing vsually two flowers and no
more at the toppe, made of sixe white leaues a peece, pointed and not
round: the cup is small and round like vnto the cup or crowne of the
least Rush Daffodill, of a yellow colour at the bottome but toward the
edge of a dunne or sullen colour.
_Narcissus angustifolius luteus semper florens Caccini._
The yellow Italian Daffodill of Caccini.
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