104 The Garden of pleajant Flowers. 



when it is fully open, and the leaues difperfed and broken. For fometimes the flower 

 fheweth a clofe and round yellow trunke in the middle, feparate from the pale outer 

 wings, which trunke is very double, mewing fome pale leaues within it, difperfed 

 among the yellow : And fometimes the trunke is more open, or in part broken, mew- 

 ing forth the fame colours intermix! within it : the flower paffeth away without gi- 

 uing any feede, as all other bulbous rootes doe that beare double flowers : the roote is 

 fmall, very like vnto the French double kindes, efpecially the lefler, that it is verie 

 hard to know the one from the other. 



The Place. 



The firft and greateft kinde, we had firft from lohn Tradefcante (as I faid 

 before) whether raifed from feed, or gained from beyond Sea, I know not 



The fecond we firft had from Vincent Sion, borne in Flanders, dwelling 

 on the Bank fide, in his Hues time, but now dead ; an induftrious and wor- 

 thy louer of faire flowers, who cherifhed it in his Garden for many yeares 

 without bearing of any flowers vntill the yeare 1620, that hauing flowrec 

 with him, (and hee not knowing of whom hee receiued it, nor hauing cue 

 feene the like flower before) he Theweth it to M r . lohn de Franqueuille, o 

 whom he fuppofed he had receiued it, (for from beyond Sea he neuer recei 

 ued any) who finding it to bee a kinde neuer feene or knowne to vs before 

 caufed him to refpect it the more, as it is well worthy. And M r . Georg 

 Wilmer of Stratford Bowe Efquire, in his Hues time hauing likewife recei 

 ued it of him (as my felfe did alfo) would needes appropriate it to himfelfc 

 as if he were the firft founder thereof, and call it by his owne name Wi! 

 mers double DafFodill, which fince hath fo continued. 



The third is of mine owne foftering or railing, as I faid before ; for afll 

 redly, it is rifen from the feede of the great Spanifh fingle kinde, which 

 fowed in mine owne Garden, and cherifhed it, vntill it gaue fuch a flow< 

 as is defcribed. 



The fourth is not certainly knowne where his originall mould be : Sorr 

 thinke it to be of France, and others of Germany. 



The laft is afluredly firft naturall of our owne Countrey, for M r . Gerrai 

 firft difcouered it to the world, finding it in a poore womans Garden in 

 Weft parts of England, where it grew before the woman came to d 

 there, and, as I haue heard fince, is naturall of the Ifle of Wight. 



The Time. 



They doe all flower much about one time, that is, from the mi 

 end of March, as the yeare is forward, vnto the middle of Aprill. 



The Names. 



Vpon the three firft I haue impofed the names in Latine, as they are e 

 prefTed in their titles : and for the Englifh names, if you pleafe, you may 

 them pafle likewife as they are exprefled there alfo, that thereby euery c 

 may be truely diftinguifhed, and not confounded. The fourth, befides t 

 name in the title, is called of fome NarciJ/us Germanicus, which whether 

 be of Germany, or no, I know not ; but that the name mould import fo mui 

 The laft doth vfually carry M r . Gerrards name, and called Gerrards dou e 

 DafFodill. 



i. Pfeedonarciflus atigujlifolius flore jiauefcente tubo quaji abfcijjb. 

 The narrow leafed baftard DafFodill with the dipt trunke. 



This kinde of DafFodill hath long and narrow grayifh greene leaues, bearing 

 fingle flower at the toppe of his ftalke, like vnto the former fingle baftard kindes, 



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