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PLEASURE-GARDEN. 
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Flowers. and Curious Plants now in their Perfeétion. 
, E have deferibed to a Ganeues many 
| valuable Daffodils, but there yet re- 
main two or three others, which by 
proper Management are capable of being kept to 
this late Salon and thence acquire a new Value, 
The prefent Species is one. 
and obtained, 
from its great Size and fine Colouring, very 
honourable Names : 
reil, and the excellent Daffodil. 
maximus, and omuium - maximus, the greateft Daf- 
dus, calyce ampla : Broad- leaved pale Daffodil, with 
a great Cup. : 
_ Linntus,. who has reduced under a wey few 
Heads the feveral Daffodils, allows this elegant 
Flower no more than the. Diftinétion of a Va- 
riety: he refers it to the common or baftard 
Daffodil, which he names Narciffus [patha uniflora, 
Neéiarit limbo rotato, campanulato eretto, patulo 
equale : One-flowered Daffodil, with the Verge of 
the Nectarium rotated and bell-fhaped, erect, Open 
and equal. 
_ The Root is bulbous, oblong, formed of nu-- 
merous Coats, and full of a flimy Juice. | 
The Leaves are oblong, broad, obtufe, of a 
Numb. XLI. 
greyith Steen Colour, sa Subftance. 
- It was early diftin- 
guifhed by the Writers on Plants ; 
the Lucomparable, the Nonpa- 
| fodils; of fix Petals and. a Nectarium, . 
The Latin Authors have called it Narciffus | from its Form, the Cup.of, the Flower... 
and C.. BavnINe, Narciffus latifolius palii- | the ORS where it is very oer dented and _ 
| aria of Linnaus ; 
Monogynia. 
NONPAREIL DAFFODIL, 
ufually rife about three of thefe from one Root, . 
and with them a firm and upright Stalk, two Foot 
| high, naked, and of the fame pale greyifh green 
Colour; and at the Top ftands a fingle Flower, 
. It is at firft enclofed in an oblong Scabbard, 
filmy, and of a pale green: this burfts fideways, 
to let out the Flower, and foon after withers. 
The Flower is compofed, as in the other.Daf- 
called 
This i is 
{mall at thé Bottom, and’ wider «all the Way to 
finuated. 
The Petals rife from its Outfide. toward the 
Bafe, and are oblong, obtufe, and plain. The 
Cup and. ‘Petals are proportioned to one another 5 
both very large. The Colour in both is yellow, 
but the Petals have the Tinct pale, and in. the 
Cup it is deeper.. — , 
Within the Cup ftand fix Filaments, Exod. to its 
Infide, and crowned with oblong Buttons ;: and in 
the Centre. rifes a Style, fingle, and crowned with 
a three-parted Tap. 
The fix -Filaments thew it. one of the Hexan- 
the fingle Style one of the 
6G The 
SADIE 
There June. 
