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 bastard Daffodill hath diuers leaues rising vp together, long
and broad, somewhat like vnto the first Spanish kinde, but a little
broader, and of a whiter greene colour, yet not so white, as in the
lesser Spanish white kindes, hereafter described: among these leaues
riseth vp a round strong stalke, about two foote high, bearing one
white flower at the toppe, bending downe the head, as all these white
kindes doe, but is not of so pure a white, as the lesser kindes that
follow, yet whiter then the greatest white Spanish kinde, next of all
to be described: the whole flower, as well trunke as wings, is much
larger then the lesser white kindes, and almost equalling the first
Spanish yellow, but a little longer and narrower, a little crumpled
and turning vp at the brimmes: the head and seede are like the first;
the roote is greater and thicker then the first Spanish, and doth not
encrease so much, nor is couered with a blacke, but rather with a
whitish coate.
_Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus maximus albidus._
The greatest Spanish white bastard Daffodill.
This kinde of bastard Daffodill is very like the last mentioned
Daffodill, both in leaues and flowers, but larger in both: the flower
of this is not full so white, but hath some shew of palenesse therein,
and more vpon the first opening of the flower then afterwards, and is
as great altogether, as the great Spanish yellow, at the least with
a longer, and somewhat narrower trunke: the seede is like vnto the
former, and so is the roote also, but greater, being white on the
outside, and not blacke.
_Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus flore albo medius & minor._
The two lesser white Spanish bastard Daffodils.
There are two other of these kindes of white Spanish Daffodils, one
greater or lesser then the other, but neither of them so great as the
former. The leaues of both are of a whitish greene colour, one a little
broader then the other: the flowers of both are pure white, and bending
downe the heads, that they almost touch the stalke againe, the greater
flower hath the longer and narrower trunke; and the lesser flower, the
shorter and wider open, yet both a little crumpled at the edges or
brimmes: the rootes of both are like one vnto another, but differ in
the greatnesse. From the seede of these haue sprung much variety, few
or none keeping either colour or height with the mother plants.
_Pseudonarcissus Anglicus vulgaris._
Our common English wilde bastard Daffodill.
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