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Show The Garden of pleafant Flowers. go The Garden ofpleafant Flowers, = thereof, Narcif/us Autumnalis minor albus and weein Englith thereafter, The Place. Thelittle white Autumne Daffodill. Wehauethis in Gardens onely, and haue notheard ofhis naturallplace; Narciffies albus Aatumnalis medio obfoletus. The white Autumne Daffodill with a fullen crowne, It fowreth in April, This Autumne Daffodil! hath two orthree leaues at the mofts an d very narrow,fo at the bot. that fome doe reckon it among the Ruth Daffodils, being fomewhat broad ftalke, vpthe commeth Ieaues thefe betweene toppe, tome, and morepointedat the bearing vfually two flowers and nomoreat thetoppe , madeof fixe white leanesa cece, pointed and not round: the cupis fmall and round,like vntothe cup or crowne ofthe leaft Ruth Daffodill, of a yellow colour at the bottome, but toward the edge of adunneorfullen colour. The Time. The Names. I leaucit indifferent,as I faid, whether you will call it Warci(fus anguftifelinus, Ox Luntifolins magno calive, Or maximus, becaufe it isthegreateft of all thereft ofthat kinde. Narciffus ancupiifolinslutens femper florens Caccini, Theyellow Italian Daffodill ofCaccini, Nareiffics totus albns flare pleno Virginians. This Daffodill beareth a number of fmall, long, narrow, and very greeneleaues, broader thenthe leaues of any Rufh Daffodill, among which rife vp diners ftalkes, bearing at the head twoorthree flowersa pecce,each ofthem being {mall and yellow, the cup or crowncis {mall alfo, ofa deeper yellow then the ower.The Noblemanof Florence,whofirft fent this plantto Chriftian Porret at Leyden,after the death of Ci rolus Clufius, writeth that euery ftalke doth beare with him moreftore of flowers, then are formerly fet downe, andthatit neuer ceafeth to beare fowers, but thatafter one or moeftalkes haue been in flower together, andare paft, there fucceed otheria their places. The Place. The roote ofthis Daffodil,is very like vnto the former fingle Virginia Daffodil; fet forth inthefirft place ofthis ranke of narrow leafed Daffodils; but thatit is a little a like greenneffe: the ftalke rifeth vp betweene thefe two leaues, about a {pan high, of not muchhigher, bearing onefaire double {now white flower, very: like in the fafhion The firft is naturall ofSpain, thenaturall place ofthe otheris not know! middle ofthis flower, thrufteth fortha fmalllong pointed forke or horne, whiteas tovs. The double white Daffodill ofVirginia. r The Time. The times ofthe flowring, are fet downe bothin thetitle and inthede The Names. laft by that honourable manthat fentit, which ismoft fit to continue att not tobeechanged. But wee, to let it beeknowne by an Englith name® Englifh people, haueentituledit, The yellow Italian Daffodill of Caccitt ifany manean giueita more proper name, I thallbee therewith right wel content, Warciffies anguftifelina, fineTuncifolise maximus . . . P . . ample calice, The great Iunquilia with the large flower or cu p- Although this Daffodill impOrteth by his hame, not to be ofthis family, but of the Next, confidering it is fo like vnto them 5 but bigger; yet I haue thought Paco plact it in the end of thefe narrow leafed Daffodils , ‘as being indifferent. whetherf fhould bee referred to this or tothat. For this carrie th dinets lon greene leaues, like vnto the other Ruth Daffodils, but thi¢ker and broade r. fo chilei may with Out anygreat errour, bee reckoned among thefe ‘narrow leafedDaffodils bearing # tac toppe twoorthree veryfaire large fower thenin any other ofthe Ruth Daffodils, boths ,| with a larce and mote open cupPé the cuppealittle déeperthen the Hower, andaof them ofafaire yellow ical »¥e . hath a pretty tharpe {ent : the roote is oreate litt] r ri" . Ci aaa ae dill, and couered likewife with blackith coate. et e Seen Oe . * fix leaues that makethe firft or outermoft courfe, are the greateft,and all the reft lying, asIf{aid, onevponor before another, are.cuery rowe imallerthen others fromthe the floweris: The place is namedtobe Virginia, but in whatpartit is not knownto vs: The Time. It fowreth in theend of Aprill. The Latine names arc impofed on them, as are fitteft for them andthe = LYod vnto the pale yellow double Daffodill, or baftard Daffodill of Robinus, hereafter de{cribed : Foritis in the like manner laid open.flat, and compofed offix rowes of Jeaues, cuery rowe lying in order iuft oppofite; or one before another, whereof thofe ThePlace. {criptions; the one to be in Autumne,the otherto beall the Summer Jong, - biggerandrounder, beinga little long withall, :and blackifh alfo on the outfide , as thatis : from whencerifeth vp two leaues, fomewhat broader then the former’: butof . : : fe Tt The Names. It may be that this doth grow among the formerfinglekinde, andcalled by the fame name Attamutco,for that the plantis not much differing , yet hereof{am not certaine : But we, fromthe forme and countenance ofthe plant, doe call it Narci//ue Virginianus, The Virginian Daffodill, and becaufe it beareth a double flower,it hath the title of double addedynioit. Thethird orderof Daffodils, I faid in the beginning, was of Zencifolies, Ruth Daffohich are nownextto be ettreated of, I fhall herein keepe the fame order I vfed in theformer; but becaufeI finde noneof this order, that beare but one flower vpon a ftalke, I muft begin with thofe that beare many. 1. Narci([de Iuntifolius albas.T he white lunquilia. This white Rath Daffodill hath {mall long leaues , alittle broader, and of a whiter greene colour then the ordinary yellow Ruth Daffodils: the'ftalke rifeth vp halfe a foore high or more, bearing two or three {mall white flowers vpon a ftalke , yet fomewhat bigger then the common yellow Ruth Daffodill, having {mall round cuppe inthe oriddle, white alfo asthe keauesare. Thefeede — acke, 91 |