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that brotight it lately ott of Flanders by that name; I have had it 
many yeais, aid have flow great ftore thereof by che increafeof one 
root which Iteceived froui Pars by thename of the double nonparel 
Daffedid, asin truth itis. | % 
Nartiffus Gallicus major flore pleno. 
iS He great double French Daffodil hath narrower anid fhorter green 
4 leaves than the former, the ftalk rifeth about a foot high, bear- 
ing one fair double flower; compofed of many  fharp-pointed leaves, 
confufedly thruft together without order, of a pale yellow colout 
almoft white; the leaves of his flower are thin and apt to ftick to- 
gether; and never open at allif thefeafon be wet; yet in fome.years. 
it will come very fair and well opened, © 
: Nourciffi us Gallicus minor lore pleno. 
OF He leffer double French Daffodil is in all the parts thereof Jeffer 
4 thancheother, it beareth upon aweak ftalk one fine double 
flower, made of many tharp-pointed leaves lying one over the other, 
and fhorter by degrees to the middle.thereot , like a ftar with fix 
points; this is of fomething a yellower colour than the former, and 
epencth well, ; : 
He donble white Daffodil of Virginia cometh up with two fimall 
+ green leaves, and betwixt them the ftalk about fix inches high, 
bearing one fair double white Aower, in form like che laft defcribed, - 
but onély ia the middle thereof cometh forcha fmall Jong white fork 
or horn, which addeth much tothe beauty of the fower 5. this is 
tender and will {Carcely endure our Winters, yet more hardy than 
that little fingle upright Virginian Daffodil , called ato Mufco, 
which is not worth the care whichis required in the keeping of ic, 
se Narciffus Albus multiplex. 
7] able alate Daffoait is fo common and well known unto all 
2 that have any jadgement in flowers, that it needeth no:defcrip- 
‘tion, yet for the beauty of the flower , and the {weet {cent, may be 
admitted , every other year in une or Fuly it mutt be taken up, che 
{mall roots and off-fets caft away, the biggeft onely retained, which 
| say be kept dty watill themiddle of Seprember, and then fer, will - 
ue feafon bring forth fair double flowers. 
Thefe are the beft of the true Daffodils that bear one flower on a 
ftalk, Tfhall now give you the time of their flowering, and then 
proceed to the'next divifion, whichis of thofe true Daffedills that bear 
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many flowers on oe fkalk, leaving all other obf vations concerning 
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