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
There is much variety in this kinde of bastard Daffodill: For one
sort hath verie broad and whitish greene leaues, somewhat short in
comparison of others, that are of that breadth: the flower is wholly
yellow, but a little paler then the former Spanish kinde, hauing the
leaues of his flower long, and somewhat narrow, standing like wings
about the middle trunke, which is as long as the leaues, and smaller
then in many other of this kinde, but a little yellower then the wings.
Another sort hath narrower green leaues then this last, and longer, the
flower is all yellow, but the trunke is larger, wider, and more open at
the mouth then the former, and almost as large as the former Spanish,
but not so high as the last. A third hath the wings of the flower of a
Strawe colour, but the trunke is long and narrow, of a faire yellow. A
fourth hath such like flowers, but that it is shorter, both the wings
and the trunke: Some likewise haue the wings of the flower longer, then
the long trunke, and some shorter. Some also are all yellow, and some
haue their wings onely a little more pale or white, like the English
kinde: Some againe haue their trunkes long and narrow, others haue
them larger and wider open, and crumpled at the brimmes; so that it is
needlesse, to spend a great deale of time and labour vpon such smally
respected flowers, but that in the beholding of them, we may therein
admire the worke of the Creatour, who can frame such diuersity in one
thing: But this is beside the text, yet not impertinent.
_Pseudonarcissus pallidus præcox._
The early Strawe coloured bastard Daffodill.
The leaues of this Daffodill are of a meane size, betweene the broadest
and the narrower kindes, of a grayish greene colour, and not very long:
the stalke riseth vp a foot high or more, whereon standeth one large
great flower, equalling the greatest Spanish bastard Daffodill, before
described, in the largenesse of his trunke, and hauing the brimmes
turned vp a little, which maketh it seeme the larger: the wings or
outer leaues are in a manner as short, as they are in the greatest
Spanish kinde, (and not long flagging down, like vnto the Mountain
kinds) and stand straight outright: all the whole flower is of one
euen colour, that is, of a fine pale yellow, somewhat like vnto the
colour of a Lemon peele or rinde, but somewhat whiter, which vsually we
call a Strawe colour; the greatnesse of the flower, the earlinesse of
the flowring, and the difference of colour from all the rest of this
kinde, hath made me entreate of it apart by it selfe, as being no lesse
worthy.
_Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus flore albo maior._
The great white Spanish bastard Daffodill.
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