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 is so common in all England, both in Copses,
Woods, and Orchards, that I might well forbeare the description
thereof, and especially, in that growing wilde, it is of little respect
in our Garden: but yet, lest I bee challenged of ignorance in common
plants, and in regard of some variety therein worth the marking. I will
set downe his description and variety as briefly as I may: It hath
three or foure grayish greene leaues, long and somewhat narrow, among
which riseth vp the stalke, about a span high or little higher, bearing
at the toppe, out of a skinnie huske, as all other Daffodils haue, one
flower (although sometimes I haue seene two together) somewhat large,
hauing the six leaues that stand like wings, of a pale yellow colour,
and the long trunke in the middle of a faire yellow, with the edges
or brimmes a little crumpled or vneuen: after the flower is past, it
beareth a round head, seeming three square, containing round blacke
seede; the roote is somewhat blackish on the outside.
But there is another of this kinde like vnto the former, whose further
description you haue here before; the wings of which flower are much
more white then the former, and in a manner of a milke white colour,
the trunke remaining almost as yellow as the former, and not differing
in any thing else.
[Illustration:
1 _Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus maximus aureus._ The great yellow
Spanish bastard Daffodill.
2 _Pseudonarcissus Pyrenæus variformis._ The Mountaine bastard
Daffodill of diuers kindes.
3 _Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus maior albus._ The greater white Spanish
bastard Daffodill.
4 _Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus minor albus._ The lesser Spanish white
bastard Daffodill.
5 _Pseudonarcissus tubo sexangulari._ The six cornered bastard
Daffodill.
6 _Pseudonarcissus maximus aureus, siue Roseus Tradescanti._ Iohn
Tradescants great Rose Daffodill.
7 _Pseudonarcissus aureus Anglicus maximus._ Master Wilmers great
double Daffodill.
8 _Pseudonarcissus Hispanicus aureus flore pleno._ The double Spanish
Daffodill, or Parkinsons double Daffodill.
9 _Pseudonarcissus Gallicus maior flore pleno._ The greater double
French Daffodill.
10 _Pseudonarcissus Anglicus flore pleno._ The double English
Daffodill, or Gerrards double Daffodill.
]
_Pseudonarcissus tubo sexangulari._
The six cornered bastard Daffodill.
This kinde of Daffodill hath two or three long, and somewhat broader
leaues then the last, between which commeth forth a stalke, bearing
one flower somewhat large hauing the six outer leaues of a pale yellow
colour, and the long trunke plaited or cornered all along vnto the very
edge into six parts, of a little deeper yellow then the wings.
The Place.
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