Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629.

John Parkinson

Date:: 1629

Credit: Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or, a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs: and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and their vses and vertues / Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$7^ ^heQardmQf pleaJanPFlowrh .■ V ' fii •’JBSmSCV \,NsreiJfu4 medio^urfttreui^r^eos. The early purple ringed DafTodill. ^'1 I 1! ;; I r I i il This early Daffodill hath many long grayidi greene leases, fomewhat narro^el and ftifFer^ien the former common|white Daffodill, among which rifetlfvp a long naked hollow ftalke(as ajl other Daffodils haue) Bearing at ithe toppe one flower, an<| feldomc two, made lorig white leaues,ftandihg clofetogethcr about the ftalke| the Clip isyellow, t^id fo flat, that it'jpight rather jbee called a^crownc.’Tot it ftandetl^ ^Very clofe tp the raiddie, and very o^ iit the brirpmes, circled with a reddifh or purrj ^le coloiitc^fing, having certaine chiues in the tniddle ofit^lfo. Thet^cUvhercof M Very fvve^i exceeding many other. , ^ i; -/y '' if . he late purple ringed Daffodill The^feue^ of ,thisv0iffod alwayestrpader then the former e^irly one, anti fome-att^ii^ySeirfcMjteas bV-pad: theflovver is very like the former, being lat^cl and his lean?s ftand^ clofe ondtothc fide of another-, the ring likewife that com^H feththcy^owcoroKt, is fonfetimesof a palerreddiflipurple, and fojnetiraes. ^ deepel^a^f^ as the wmer: fothabitdiffercthnQtiti any other matcriall point, then; that if fi^wreth nowt^'^l the other is pifl: and gone. Thcfcntoftbis is likethc for-4 rarivtllproote her®qflis|grcater,as well as th^ jeafeand flower. il 4 ^.aft^cgreatwhi 1 u fciere jianothW kinde, whofe fl ji I -i medio purporifoe maximur^ TThc great white purple ringed Daffodill, ri)ere^an9thc^' kmde,whorc^^^fl^ (as well as Icaj^es and’rootes) is larger thbn^ l| I hefl^fms kihd^ which oneiy)naketh it a diftin»a fort from the other : it floW-? ij/^i ‘'|et1i al£b with the liter fort of thefe purple rineed'Daffodils. 3 ihp 1 . ^ ;r!:t i : || 4« ^<rf/^;^^(?^«r/«««iryiir^4r4<.’]^eftarry purple ringed Daffodill, . ,j 0 t^sd^i^odiU h|th his ieaucs a ^ittle narrower and greener then the former fdrtsi,^ the fl^^f alfo of this hath his fixe fy^hite Icafenot fo broad, but narrower, and fccri I j ,thing rn^eir then they, not clpfing tpgcther,]^f;ftanding apart one from another^maU^ w , king it feeme like a white ftarrci^t hath aifoa yellow coronet in the middle, circled; iiu tu.v _r„r___ii ’r-' « . f Kill 5^! 1 '-abbutfilthpurple^^ethefpfrncr^ This dbthfmell nothing fpfwecte as the firft,bull ycthata^oodit;nt.;\ • ' - / / The firft;^ thirdjandfourth of thefe Daffodils, hauealwaycsbeenefenfi 3 vs from Ophftantuioplc amongbthcr bulbous rooces, lb that wee knoWnol 5 ■' funher of their nacurall places. ' 5 3 i li ■>n The fccond groweth in many places of Europe, both iri‘ Germany;! Franc^d^dJtaly,as^Ck^ ; . •: ^ ■>> N. 'The Time. ' / The firft flowrctHvjtry early in lClarch,eucn with thefirft Daffodils, The fecond, third, and fourth^ about amoneth after. * A ^ ' t « si ?L. f**' y■' *• rn -• r. tk-'™. ^he Names. The early and ftarre Daffodils, hj^uebcen fent vs by the Turkifh name of Deuebohini, and Sermsde, But their namcs,thcy haue rccciucdfince to beet endenizojidwith vs, are fetdownciathcirfcUerall titles. * iThe Perfian Daffodill. of Daffodils in his manner of growing.$

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