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 other kinde differeth neither in forme, nor bignesse of leafe or
flower from the former, but in the colour of the circling leaues of the
flower, which are of the same yellow colour with the cup.
[Sidenote: _Flore geminato._]
This doth sometimes degenerate and grow luxurious also, bringing forth
two flowers vpon a stalke, each distinct from other, and sometimes
two flowers thrust together, as if they were but one, although it be
but seldome; for it is not a peculiar kinde that is constant, yearly
abiding in the same forme.
3. _Narcissus maximus griseus calice flauo._
The gray Peerlesse Daffodill.
This Peerlesse Daffodill well deserueth his place among these kindes,
for that it doth much resemble them, and peraduenture is but a
difference raised from the seede of the former, it is so like in leafe
and flower, but that the leaues seeme to be somewhat greater, and the
sixe outer leaues of the flower to be of a glistering whitish gray
colour, and the cup yellow, as the former, but larger.
4. _Narcissus latifolius flauo flore amplo calice, siue Mattenesse._
The lesser yellow Nompareille, or the Lady Mattenesses Daffodill.
The leaues of this Daffodill, are somewhat like vnto the leaues of the
first kind, but not altogether so long or broad: the stalke likewise
riseth not vp fully so high, and beareth one flower like the former,
but lesser, and both the cuppe and the leaues are of one colour, that
is, of a pale yellow, yet more yellow then in the former: the cup of
this also is lesser, and a little differing; for it is neither fully
so small in the bottome, nor so large at the edges, nor so crumpled at
the brimmes, so that all these differences doe plainly shew it to be
another kinde, quite from the former.
The Place.
The places of none of these are certainly knowne to vs where
they grow naturally, but we haue them onely in our Gardens, and
haue beene sent, and procured from diuers places.
The Time.
They flower sometimes in the end of March, but chiefly in
Aprill.
The Names.
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