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
These sorts againe doe comprehend vnder them some other diuisions,
whereby they may the better be distinguished, and yet still bee
referred to one of those foure former sorts: as
_Monanthos_, that is, Daffodils that beare but one flower, or two at
the most vpon a stalke, and
_Polyanthos_, those that beare many flowers together vpon a stalke: as
also
_Simplici flore_, those that beare single flowers, and
_Multiplici flore_, or _flore pleno_, that is, haue double flowers.
_Vernales_, those that flower in the Spring, and among them some that
are earlier; and therefore called
_Præcoces_, early flowring Daffodils, and
_Autumnales_, those that flower in Autumne onely.
And lastly, with the _Pseudonarcissos_, or bastard Daffodils, I will
keepe the same order, to distinguish them likewise into their foure
seuerall sorts; and as with the true Daffodils, so with these false,
describe vnder euery sort: first, those that beare single flowers,
whether one or many vpon a stalke; and then those that beare double
flowers, one or many also. As for the distinctions of _maior_ and
_minor_, greater and lesser, and of _maximus_ and _minimus_, greatest
and least, they doe not onely belong to these Daffodils; and therefore
must be vsed as occasion permitteth, but vnto all other sort of plants.
To begin therefore, I thinke fittest with that stately Daffodill, which
for his excellency carrieth the name of None such.
1. _Narcissus latifolius omnium maximus, amplo calice flauo, siue
Nompareille._
The great None such Daffodill, or Incomparable Daffodill.
This _Narcissus Nompareille_ hath three or foure long and broad leaues,
of a grayish greene colour, among which riseth vp a stalke two foote
high at the least, at the toppe whereof, out of a thinne skinnie huske,
as all Daffodils haue, commeth forth one large single flower, and no
more vsually, consisting of sixe very pale yellow large leaues, almost
round at the point, with a large cuppe in the middle, somewhat yellower
then the leaues, the bottome whereof next vnto the stalke is narrow and
round, rising wider to the mouth, which is very large and open, and
vneuenly cut in or indented about the edges. The cup doth very well
resemble the chalice, that in former dayes with vs, and beyond the Seas
is still vsed to hold the Sacramentall Wine, that is with a narrower
bottome, and a wide mouth. After the flower is past, sometimes there
commeth (for it doth not often) a round greene head, and blacke round
seede therein, like vnto other Daffodils, but greater. The roote is
great, as other Daffodils that beare large flowers, and is couered ouer
with a brownish coate or skinne. The flower hath little or no sent at
all.
[Sidenote: _Flore geminato._]
This doth sometimes bring forth a flower with ten or twelue leaues, and
a cup much larger, as if it would be two, euen as the flower seemeth.
2. _Narcissus omnium maximus flore & calice flauo._
The great yellow Incomparable Daffodill.
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