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 strange Rush Daffodill (I call it strange, not onely because it
differeth from all others of this kinde, but also because there are but
few in these parts that haue had it, and fewer that doe still enioy it,
in that it is perished withall that had it) hath but one onely leafe,
very long, round, and greene, in all that euer I saw growing, which
beareth no flower while that greene leafe is fresh, and to bee seene:
but afterwards the stalke riseth vp, being like vnto the former greene
leafe, round, naked, and greene vp to the toppe, where two or three
flowers breake forth out of a small thin skinne, euery one consisting
of six small and narrow greene leaues, very sharpe pointed at the
end, and as it were ending in a small pricke or thorne: in the middle
whereof is a small round cup, or rather crowne, of the same colour with
the leaues and stalke, which flower smelleth very sweete, somewhat like
vnto the rest of the Rush Daffodils: this sheweth not his flower vntill
October, and the frosts quickly following after their flowring, cause
them soone to perish.
12. _Narcissus angustifolius aureus multiplex._
The golden double narrow leafed Daffodill.
The leaues of this Daffodill are very narrow, and of a whitish greene
colour, not aboue foure or fiue inches long, from among which riseth vp
a stalke about a foote high, bearing at the top one flower, consisting
of some outer leaues, which are of a yellow colour, and of many other
leaues in the middle being smaller, and set thicke and round together
of a more yellow gold colour, but with some whiter leaues among them,
the middle part a little pointing forth; the flower standeth long
before it doth perfect his colour, and abideth long in flower before
the colour decay: the roote is in fashion almost like the ordinary
Iunquilia, or Rush Daffodill. I acknowledge this Daffodill hath not his
proper place; but because the figure is set in this table, let it thus
passe at this time.
13. _Narcissus Iuncifolius luteus flore pleno._
The double Iunquilia, or Rush Daffodill.
The double Rush Daffodill hath his long greene leaues round, like
the leaues of the common or ordinary Rush Daffodill, and of the same
bignesse, among which riseth vp a long slender greene stalke, bearing
two or three, seldome more small flowers, yellow and double, that is,
with diuers rowes of leaues, hauing the yellow cup such as is in the
single flower, broken into small threads or peeces, running among the
leaues of the flower, which peeces in some flowers are not so easily
seene, being smaller then in others, this beareth no button or head
vnder the flower for seede, his roote is round and blackish, browne on
the outside, so like vnto the common Rush Daffodill, that it is almost
impossible to know the one from the other.
[Sidenote: _Alter minori flore._]
There is another of this kinde, whose flowers are smaller, and not so
double, one, two, or three at the most vpon a stalke, and of lesse
beauty by much.
The Place.
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