The (garden of p lea] ant t lowers. 
when it is fully open, and theleaues difperfed and broken. For fometimes the flower 
flieweeh a clofe and round yellow trunke in the middle , feparate from the pale outer 
wings, which trunke is very double, fhewing fome pale leaues within it, difperfed 
among the yellow : And fometimes the trunke is more open, or in part broken, fhew- 
ing forth the fame colours intermixt within it: the flower paffeth away without gi- 
liing any feede, as all other bulbous rootes doe that beare double flowers : the roote is 
fmall, very like vnto the French double kindes, efpecially theleflerj thatit isverie 
hard to know the one from the other. 
The Place. 
The firft and greateft kinde, we had hr ft fromlohnTradefcanrefasIfaid 
before) whether raifed from feed, or gained from beyond Sea, I know not. 
The fecond we firft had from V incent Sion, borne in Flanders, dwelling 
on the Banke fide, in his liues time, but now dead 5 an induftrious and wor- 
thy louer of faire flowers , who cherifhed it in his Garden for many y eares 
without bearing of any flowers vntilltheyeare i5ao. that hauing flowred 
with him, (and hee not knowing of whom hee receiuedit, nor hauing euer 
feene the like flower before) he (heweth it to M r . Iohn deFranqueuille , of 
whom hefuppofed 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 refped it the more , as it is well worthy. And M r . George 
Wilmer of Stratford BoweEfqtiire, in his liues time hauing likewife recei- 
ued it of him (as mv felfe did alfo) would needes appropriate it to himfclfe 
as if he were the firft founder thereof, and call it by his owne name Wil- 
mers double Daffodill, which fince hath fo continued. 
Thethird is of mine owne foftering or railing, as I faid before; for aflii- 
redly, it is rifen from the feede of the great Spanilh Angle kicde ‘ which I 
fowed in mine owne Gayden, and cherifhed it, vndll it gaue fuch a flower 
asisdeferibed. 
The fourth is not certainly knowne where his originali fhould be : Some 
thinke it to be of France, and others of Germany. 
T tie laft is affurcdly firft naturali of our owne Countrey, for M r . Gerrard 
firft difeouered it to the woi Id, finding it in a poore womans Garden in the 
Weft parts ofEngland, where it grew before the woman came to dwell 
there,and,as I haue heard fince, is naturali of the Ifle of Wight. 
The Time. 
They doe all flower much about onetime, that is, from themiddleor 
end ofMarch, as theyeare is forward, vnto the middlcof Aprill. 
The Names. 
Vpon the three firft I haue impofed the names in Latine , as they are ex- 
preffed in their titles : and for the Englilh names, if you pleafe, you may let 
them pafle- likewile as they are exprefled there alfo, that thereby euery one 
may be truely diftinguilhed, and not confounded. The fourth, befides the 
name in the title, is called of lome Naraffut Germanicus , which whether it 
be of Germany, or no, I knownot;but that the name fhould import fo much. 
The laft doth vfually carry M'.Gerrardsname, and called Gerrards double 
Daflfodill. aw 
• • *-*. ' Drmolcrhfiorlj 
I . Tfleudenircijjm anguflifelim flere fliuefcentc tuho quip ebfeiffo. 
ThenarrowleafedbaftardDaffqdill with the dipt trunke. '1 
This kinde of Daffodill hath long and narrow grayifh greene leaues , bearing one 
Angle flower at the toppe of his ftalke, like vnto theformer finglebaftardkindcs, be- 
fore 
