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 by long continuance, standing in one place
without being remoued, groweth to be much greater and larger, than
any other Daffodill whatsoeuer, and as bigge as any meane Squilla
or Sea Onion roote, hauing many long, thicke, and white fibres, or
long rootes, diuersly branched, and spread vnder the vpper part of
the earth beside some others that grow downward, and perish not euery
yeare, as the fibres of all, or most of the other Daffodils doe; and
therefore this plant will not thriue, and beare flowers, if it be
often transplanted, but rather desire to abide in one place without
remouing, as I said, and that not to be ouershadowed, or couered
with other herbes standing too neare it, which then will flourish,
and beare aboundantly: from this roote, which is couered with many
blackish coates, ariseth six or seuen, or more leaues, twice so broad
almost, as any of the former Daffodils, but not so long by halfe as
many of them, being but short, in comparison of the breadth, and of a
white greene colour; from the middle of which leaues, as also from the
sides sometimes, springeth vp one or two, or more stalkes, roundish
and thicke, and sometimes a little flat and cornered, a foote high or
somewhat more, bearing at the toppe, out of a skinnie huske, eight,
ten, twelue, or more very large flowers, consisting of six white leaues
a peece, spread or laid open, with a white short cuppe or crowne in the
middle, lying flat vpon the leaues, cut or diuided into six corners
(and not whole, as the cuppe or crowne of any other single Daffodill)
from euery of which edges, or corners of this cup or crowne, standeth
one white long thread, a little crooked or turning vp at the end, tipt
with a yellow pendent, and some other white threads tipt with yellow
pendents, standing also in the middle: after the flower is past, there
come vp great three square heads, wherein the seede is contained, which
is great, blacke, and round, like vnto the seede of other Daffodils,
but greater: the flower hath a reasonable good sent, but not very
strong.
The Place.
It was first found by the Sea side, in the Isle of Sardinia,
and on the high Mountaines also of the same Isle, where it hath
borne by report, thirty fiue flowers vpon a stalke: it groweth
likewise about Illyricum, and in diuers other places.
The Time.
It springeth later out of the ground then any other Daffodill,
that is to say, not vntill the later end of March, or beginning
of Aprill, and flowreth in the end of May, or the beginning of
Iune: the seede is ripe in the end of Iuly, or beginning of
August.
The Names.
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