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
Because this Daffodill is so like in flower vnto the former, although
differing in colour, I thought it the fittest place to ioyne it the
next thereunto. This early Daffodill hath three or foure short very
greene leaues, so like vnto the leaues of the Autumne Daffodill,
that many may easily bee deceiued in mistaking one for another, the
difference consisting chiefly in this, that the leaues of this are not
so broad or so long, nor rise vp in Autumne: in the midst of these
leaues riseth vp a short green stalke, an handfull high, or not much
higher vsually, (I speake of it as it hath often flowred with mee,
whether the cause be the coldnesse of the time wherein it flowreth, or
the nature of the plant, or of our climate, I am in some doubt; but I
doe well remember, that the stalkes of some plants, that haue flowred
later with me then the first, haue by the greater strength, and comfort
of the Sunne, risen a good deale higher then the first) bearing at the
top, out of a whitish thinne skinne stripped with greene, one flower a
little bending downewards, consisting of sixe leaues, laid open almost
in the same manner with the former Indian Daffodill, whereof some doe
a little turne vp their points againe, of a faire pale yellow colour,
hauing sixe white chiues within it, tipt with yellow pendents, and
a longer pointell: the roote is not very great, but blackish on the
outside, so like vnto the Autumne Daffodill, but that it is yellow
vnder the first or outermost coate, that one may easily mistake one for
another.
The Place.
It was sent vs from Constantinople among other rootes, but
as wee may ghesse by the name, it should come thither from
Trapezunte or Trebizond.
The Time.
It flowreth sometimes in December, if the former part of the
Winter haue been milde; but most vsually about the end of
Ianuary, or else in Februarie the beginning or the end.
The Names.
Wee doe vsually call it from the Turkish name, _Narcissus
Trapezunticus_, and some also call it _Narcissus vernus
præcox_, as Clusius doth, in English, The early Daffodill of
Trebizond.
[Illustration:
1 _Narcissus Nonpareille._ The incomparable Daffodill.
2 _Narcissus Mattenesse._ The lesser yellow Nompareille
Daffodill.
3 _Narcissus Iacobæus flore rubro._ The red Indian Daffodill.
4 _Narcissus Trapezunticus._ The early Daffodill of Trabesond.
5 _Narcissus Montanus albus apophysibus præditus._ The white winged
Daffodill.
6 _Narcissus Montanus, siue Nompareille totus albus._ The white
Nompareille, or Peerlesse Daffodill.
7 _Narcissus albus oblongo calice._ The white Daffodill with a long
cup.
]
_Narcissus Montanus albus apophysibus præditus._
The white Mountaine Daffodill with eares, or The white winged Daffodill.
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