Chap. X. ESL O.RAA. 
earth, they will languith ind decay for wantof agreeable nourifiments 
yet if you have ftore of Neats dung mixed with fand, that hath lain 
on.a heap. two or three years, the fame fifted, and in Asgu/? well 
mingled with the earth of your bed in any good air will be futficient 
many about Lozdon complain of the earth, when indeed the fault is 
intheair, Ihave fer my belt Tulps twenty years fuccefsively in one 
bed, where by the means prefcribed, they have profpered to my 
with, and often beyond my expectation. 
CHAP, x; 
Nareiffus. 
He Daffodill, next the Tulips,deferveth mention, in re- 
RE {pect of the great variety and excellence thereot ; we 
will begin with thote called true Daffodils, arid fo pro- 
ceed to the baftard kinds , of both which, thereare 
Same fingle and double, .fome with broad , fome with naf-, 
*row green leaves, forme bearing one, arid others many flowers on'one 
ftalk ; but inrefpec&t many of them are now common and of. finall 
efteem, we will infert the beft in every kinde, and fuch-onely as are 
fitceft to be collected and entertained by all that delight in flowers ; 
begining firft with that be& known, called 
Nareiffus Nonparel. 
OT He iacomparable Daffodill hatha great and fomething round root, 
- 4 covered with brownifh skins, as cheroots of all Daffodils are, 
fromwhence rifeth up three or four long broad leaves, of a grayith 
- -green colour; with a ftalk more than two foot high, atthe top 
whereof out of a thin skinny husk (as all others do) cometh forth one 
large fingle flower; . hanging down the head and looking one-way, as 
all Daffodils do, confifting of fix pale yellow large leaves , almoft 
round pointed, with a large and wide chalice or cup in the middle, of 
a deeper yellow, cut and indented about the edges ; thts fometimes 
‘hath a flower with twelve or more leaves, and a large cup, which is 
-occafioned by the {port of Nature, joyning two flowers together, 
NareifJus Nonparel flore five chalice pleno. 
oT He incomparable Daffodill with a double flower or cup, isinall the 
parts thereof like unto theformer, the flower onely excepted’, 
which in this hath the cup in the middle, very large, thick, and 
double, confifting of longer pale yellow leaves , and divers broken 
parts of the deeper yellow cup,mingled together. one within another, 
which befides the border ot large leaves, forms a reafonable fair 
double flower, thisis called Narciffus pasc A aa by the Wale 
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