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 roote of this Daffodill, is very like vnto the former single
Virginia Daffodill, set forth in the first place of this ranke of
narrow leafed Daffodils, but that it is a little bigger and rounder,
being a little long withall, and blackish also on the outside, as that
is: from whence riseth vp two leaues, somewhat broader then the former:
but of a like greennesse: the stalke riseth vp betweene these two
leaues, about a span high, or not much higher, bearing one faire double
snow white flower, very like in the fashion vnto the pale yellow double
Daffodill, or bastard Daffodill of Robinus, hereafter described: For
it is in the like manner laid open flat, and composed of six rowes of
leaues, euery rowe lying in order iust opposite, or one before another,
whereof those six leaues that make the first or outermost course, are
the greatest, and all the rest lying, as I said, one vpon or before
another, are euery rowe smaller then others from the middle of this
flower, thrusteth forth a small long pointed forke or horne, white as
the flower is.
The Place.
The place is named to be Virginia, but in what part it is not
known to vs.
The Time.
It flowreth in the end of Aprill.
The Names.
It may be that this doth grow among the former single kinde,
and called by the same name Attamusco, for that the plant is
not much differing, yet hereof I am not certaine: But we, from
the forme and countenance of the plant, do call it _Narcissus
Virginianus_, The Virginian Daffodill, and because it beareth a
double flower, it hath the title of double added vnto it.
The third order of Daffodils, I said in the beginning was of
_Iuncifolios_, Rush Daffodils, which are now next to be entreated of,
I shall herein keepe the same order I vsed in the former; but because
I finde none of this order, that beare but one flower vpon a stalke, I
must begin with those that beare many.
1. _Narcissus Iuncifolius albus._ The white Iunquilia.
This white Rush Daffodill hath small long leaues, a little broader, and
of a whiter greene colour then the ordinary yellow Rush Daffodils: the
stalke riseth vp halfe a foote high or more, bearing two or three small
white flowers vpon a stalke, yet somewhat bigger then the common yellow
Rush Daffodill, hauing a small round cuppe in the middle, white also as
the leaues are. The seede is small, blacke, and round, as other seedes
of Daffodils are: the roote is small and round, couered with a blackish
coate.
_Narcissus Iuncifolius albus magno calice._
The white Iunquilia with a great cup.
There is of this kinde another sort, that hath the cup in the middle
of the flower, a little larger then the other, but in all other things
alike.
2. _Narcissus Iuncifolius flore albo reflexo._
The white turning Iunquilia, or Rush Daffodill.
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