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
All these Rush Daffodils, doe for the most part grow in Spaine
and France, and on the Pyrenæan Mountaines, which are betweene
Spaine and France, which Mountains are the Nourseries of many
of the finest flowers, that doe adorne the Gardens of these
louers of natures pride, and gathered in part by industrious,
learned, generous men, inhabiting neare thereunto, and in part
by such as make a gaine of their labours, bestowed vpon these
things. Onely that with the greene flower was gathered in
Barbary, and imparted vnto vs from France.
The Time.
They flower in the Spring, that is, in March and Aprill, except
such whose time is set downe to be in Autumne.
The Names.
Their names are specified in their titles, and therefore I
shall not need to set downe any further repetitions.
To conclude therefore this discourse of true Daffodils, there remaineth
to speake of the Sea Daffodils, which (as I said in the beginning) is
but one, that is frequent, and doth abide with vs. But there bee some
others found about the Cape of good Hope, and in the West Indies, and
brought vnto these parts rather for ostentation, then continuance,
where they haue flowred onely once (if peraduenture so often) so that
being such strangers, of so remote Countries, and of so diuers natures,
I shall but shew you some of them, rather cursorily then curiously; and
but onely for your satisfaction, giue you knowledge of two or three of
them, that there haue beene seene such in flower, and that they are
scarce to bee seene againe, except they bee fetcht a new euery yeare
that they be seene.
_Narcissus Marinus, siue tertius Matthioli._
The great white Sea Daffodill, or Matthiolus his third Daffodill.
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