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 turning white Daffodill hath foure or fiue long greene leaues,
yet shorter and broader then the ordinary yellow Iunquilia, and fully
as greene also, from among which riseth vp a slender greene stalke, a
foote high bearing out of a thinne skinnie huske, three or foure, or
more snow white flowers, standing vpon long greene foot-stalkes, euery
flower hanging downe his head, and turning vp his six narrow and long
leaues, euen to the very foot-stalk againe: from the middle of the
flower hangeth downe a long round cuppe, as white as the leaues, within
which are contained three small white chiues, tipt with yellow, and a
small long pointell, thrusting out beyond the brimmes of the cup: after
the flowers are past, there come vp in their places small three square
heads, wherein is contained very small, round, and blacke shining
seede: the roote is small, round, and a little long withall, couered
with a blackish browne coate or skin. The flower is quite without any
good sent, or indeed rather none at all.
3. _Narcissus Iuncifolius flore luteo reflexo._
The yellow turning Iunquilia, or Rush Daffodill.
The leaues of the Rush Daffodill are greater and longer then the
former, and of a paler greene colour: the stalke riseth somewhat
higher, bearing two or three flowers thereon wholly of a gold yellow
colour, both the cuppe and the leaues that turne vp againe.
4. _Narcissus Iuncifolius calice albo reflexis folijs luteis._
The yellow turning Iunquilia with a white cup.
This Daffodill hath his long rush-like leaues standing vpright as the
former, betweene which riseth vp a greene stalke, about a foote high or
more, bearing two or three flowers thereon, whose turning leaues are of
a faire pale yellow, and the cuppe pale white, and not so pure a white
as the former.
5. _Narcissus Iuncifolius calice luteo reflexis folijs albidis._
The white turning Iunquilia with a yellow cup.
As the last had the leaues of the flower that turne vp againe yellow,
and the cuppe whitish, so this hath contrariwise the turning leaues of
a whitish yellow, and the long cup yellower, else in his long green
leaues, or any other thing, there is small difference.
6. _Narcissus Iuncifolius luteus magno calice._
The Iunquilia, or Rush Daffodill with a great cup.
This Rush Daffodill hath bigger leaues, and longer then the ordinary
yellow Rush Daffodill, being a little flat on the one side, and round
on the other, but of the same greennesse with all the rest: the stalke
riseth vp two foote high, bearing two, and sometimes three flowers
thereon, being of a faire yellow colour, with a large open cup in the
middle, of a little deeper yellow colour, like vnto the great Iunquilia
with the large flower, before set downe, whereof this is a kinde, no
doubt; but that is larger and greater then this, both in leafe, flower,
cup, &c. and this onely somewhat lesse in all parts then that.
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