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 leaues of this early Daffodill are broad, very greene, and not
whitish as others, three or foure standing together, about a foote
long or better, among which riseth vp a greene stalke, not full so
high as the leaues, bearing one flower at the toppe thereof of a
reasonable bignesse, but not so great as the later kindes that follow
are, consisting of six whitish leaues, but not perfect white, hauing
a show of a Creame colour appearing in them; in the middle is a long
round yellow cup, about halfe an inch long or better. The smell of this
flower is reasonable sweete, the roote is of a reasonable bignesse, yet
lesser then the rootes of the later kindes.
2. _Narcissus pallidus oblongo calice flauo præcox._
The early Strawe coloured Daffodill with a long cup.
The leaues of this Daffodill are as greene as the former, but much
narrower; and the leaues of the flower are more enclining to yellow,
but yet very pale, as if it were a light strawe colour, and seeme to
bee a little more narrow and pointed then the former: the cup of this,
is as long and yellow as the precedent. The smell whereof is very like
the former, yet neither of them being so sweete as those that follow.
3. _Narcissus albus oblongo calice luteo serotinus maier._
The great late flowring white Daffodill with a long cup.
This later flowring Daffodill hath his leaues somewhat narrow & long,
of a grayish or whitish greene colour, among which the stalke riseth
vp a foote and a halfe high, bearing one flower at the toppe, made of
six white leaues, hauing the cup in the middle thereof as long as the
former, and of a deepe yellow: the edges of this cuppe are sometimes
plaine, and sometimes a little crumpled; they are often also circled at
the brimmes with a Saffron colour, and often also without it, the smell
whereof is very pleasant, and not heady: the roote hereof is reasonable
bigge, and couered ouer rather with a pale then blackish skinne. This
flower doth sometimes alter his forme into eight leaues, which being
narrow and long, seeme like a white starre, compassing a yellow trunke.
4. _Narcissus totus pallidus oblongo calice serotinus minor._
The late pale coloured Daffodill with a long cup.
There is another of this kinde, whose flowers is wholly of a pale
white, or yellowish colour, differing neither in leafe nor roote from
the former.
5. _Narcissus pallidus oblongo calice flauo serotinus._
The Strawe coloured late flowring Daffodill with a long yellow cup.
The chiefe difference of this Daffodill from the former, consisteth
in the colour of the cup, which is a more yellow colour, and a little
larger then the former, and the brimmes or edges of the cup of a deeper
yellow, or Saffron colour. The smell of this is no lesse sweete then in
the former.
6. _Narcissus albus oblongo calice flauo serotinus, duobus floribus in
caule._
The late white Daffodill with a long cup, and two flowers on a stalke.
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