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 other great double Daffodill doth so neare resemble our ordinary
English double kinde, that I doe not finde therein any greater
difference, then the largenesse both of leaues and flowers, &c., and
the statelinesse of growth. It beareth three or foure large, long,
and broad leaues, somewhat longer and broader then the former, and
of a whitish greene colour: the stalke riseth to bee two foote high,
growing (in a fruitfull and fat soyle) strong, and somewhat round,
bearing at the toppe, out of a thin skinne, one great and faire double
flower, each leafe whereof is twice as large and broad as the former,
diuersly intermixt with a rowe of paler, and a rowe of deeper yellow
leaues, wholly dispersed throughout the flower, the pale colour as well
as the deeper yellow, in this as in the other small English kinde,
growing deeper by standing: sometimes the leaues hereof are scattered,
and spread wholly, making it shew a faire, broad, open flower: and
sometimes the outer leaues stand separate from the middle trunke,
which is whole and vnbroken, and very thicke of leaues: and sometimes
the middle trunke, will bee halfe broken, neither expressing a full
open double flower, nor a close double trunke, as it is likewise seene
in the small English kinde, as shall bee declared in his place: this
beareth no seede; the roote hereof is thicke and great, and encreaseth
as well as any other Daffodill.
3. _Pseudonarcissus aureas Hispanicus flore pleno._
The great double yellow Spanish bastard Daffodill, or Parkinsons
Daffodill.
This double Spanish Daffodill hath diuers leaues rising from the
roote, stiffer, narrower, and not of so whitish a greene colour as the
former, but more sullen or grayish, plainely resembling the leaues of
the single great kinde, from whence this hath risen: the stalke hereof
likewise riseth almost as high as it, and neare the height of the
last recited double, bearing one double flower at the toppe, alwayes
spread open, and neuer forming a double trunke like the former, yet
not so faire and large as it, the outermost leaues whereof being of a
greenish colour at the first, and afterward more yellow, doe a little
turne themselues backe againe to the stalke, the other leaues are some
of a pale yellow, and others of a more gold yellow colour, those that
stand in the middle are smaller, and some of them shew as if they were
hollow trunked, so that they seeme to be greenish, whitish, yellow, and
gold yellow, all mixed one among another: the root is great, round, and
whitish on the inside, couered with darke coloured skinnes or peelings.
I thinke none euer had this kinde before my selfe, nor did I my selfe
euer see it before the yeare 1618, for it is of mine own raising and
flowring first in my Garden.
4. _Pseudonarcissus Gallicus maior flore pleno._
The greater double French bastard Daffodill.
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