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 rootes of this lesser French kinde (if I may lawfully call it, or
the greater kinde before specified, a bastard Daffodill; for I somewhat
doubt thereof, in that the flower of either is not made after the
fashion of any of the other bastard Daffodils, but doth more nearely
resemble the forme of the double white Daffodill, expressed before
among the true Daffodils) are like vnto the double English kinde, as
also to the former double great French kinde, and the leaues are of
the same whitish greene colour also, but narrower and not longer: the
stalke riseth a little higher then the English, and not fully so high
as the greater French, bearing one faire double flower thereon, of a
pale yellow or Lemon colour, consisting of six rowes of leaues, euery
rowe growing smaller then other vnto the middle, and so set and placed,
that euery leafe of the flower doth stand directly almost in all, one
vpon or before another vnto the middle, where the leaues are smallest,
the outermost being the greatest, which maketh the flower seeme the
more beautifull: this and the greater kinde hath no trunke, or shew
of any other thing in the middle, as all or most of the other former
double bastard Daffodils haue, but are flowers wholly composed of
leaues, standing double euen to the middle.
The Place.
The first is vndoubtedly a naturall of the Pyrenæan Mountaines.
The Spanish kindes grew in Spaine, and
The French double kinde about Orleance in France, where it is
said to grow plentifully.
The Time.
The first flowreth at the end of March.
The Spanish kindes are the most early, flowring betimes in
March.
The French double doth flower presently after.
The Names.
More cannot bee said or added, concerning the names of any of
these Daffodils, then hath been set downe in their titles:
onely the French kinde is most vsually called Robinus his
Daffodill.
_Pseudonarcissus Iuncifolius albus._
The white bastard Rush Daffodill, or Iunquilia.
This bastard Rush Daffodill hath two or three long and very greene
leaues, very like vnto the small yellow Rush Daffodill, formerly
described, but not altogether so round, among which riseth vp a short
stalke, seldome halfe a foote high, bearing at the toppe, out of a
small skinnie huske, one small white flower, sometime declining to
a pale colour, hauing six small and short leaues, standing about
the middle of the trunke, which is long, and much wider open at the
mouth, then at the bottome: the small outer leaues or wings are a
little tending to greene, and the trunke (as I said) is either white,
or whitish, hauing the brimmes a little vneuen: the seede is small,
blacke, and round, like vnto other Rush Daffodils, but smaller.
_Pseudonarcissus Iuncifolia, luteus maior._
The greater yellow Iunquilia, or bastard Daffodill.
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