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feldom three , ( but larger for the moft part than any 
which bear many flowers upon a Stalk) of a pale 
whitifb Cream color , near to that of a pale rrimrofe, 
noth' a Small round flat Crown , rather than a Cup, 
in the middle, of a pale yellow color, with fome pale 
Chives Ji ending therein, and of a pretty fweet 
Smell. 
XIX. The thirteenth, or Late-flowering white 
Daffodil, has a bulbous Root, like the former, but 
the Leaves are Jhorter, and the Stalk rifes not fo 
high by much, and bears but one flower, of a pure 
white color, made of fix /mail Leaves, and Something 
narrow, ft ending Severally one from another, and 
not Jo clofe together as the former, but appearing 
like a Star ; the Cup is fmall and round, oj a pale 
yellow-color, but Saffron like about the brims, having 
fix fmall pale Chives in the middle, the Smell of 
which is much fweeter than the former. 
XX. The fourteenth, or Early purple-ringed Daf- 
fodil, from a bulbous Root, has many long greyifh 
green Leaves, fomewbat narrower and ftiffer than 
the former Common white Daffodil, among which 
rifes up a long naked hollow Stalk, (as all other Daf- 
fodils have ) bearing at the top one flower, (feldom 
two ) confifting of fix long white Leaves, J. landing 
clofe together about the Stalk : the Cup is yellow, 
and fo flat, that it might rather be called a Crown, 
for it funds very clofe to the middle, and very open 
at the brims, circled with a reddijh or purple color'd 
Ring, having alfo feveral Chives in the middle of it, 
whofe Smell is very fweet, exceeding feveral other 
' XXI. The fifteenth, or Late purple-ringed Daf- 
fodil, from a bulbous Root , greater than the /aft, 
has Leaves broader than it, fome being near twice as 
broad. The flower is like the former , being large, 
and its Leaves funding clofe, one to the fides of ano- 
ther. The Ring alfo, which compajfes the yellow Co- 
ronet, is Sometimes of a paler reddijh purple , and 
Sometimes of as deep a red as the former, from which 
it differs not any thing elfe , but in the time of flow- 
ering, which is not until the other is pafl and gone : 
the Smell is J'weet, like the former. 
XXII. The Sixteenth, or Great white purple-ringed 
Daffodil, has a bulbous Root , greater than the for- 
mer, as alfo its Leaves and flowers , the largenefs of 
which makes it only to differ from the lafl, and to be 
a diflinli kind, it flowering with the later of the 
Purple-ringed Daffodils. 
XXIII. The Seventeenth, or Starry purple-ringed 
Daffodil, from a bulbed Root, has a little narrower 
and greener Leaves than the former kinds : the 
flower has fix white Leaves, not fo broad, but nar- 
rower, and feeming longer than they, not clofing to- 
gether, but /landing apart one from another, making 
it feem like a white Star : it has alfo a yellow Coro- 
net in the middle, circled about with purple, like the 
former , fuelling fweet, but nothing fo fweet as the 
Early purple-ringed Daffodil. 
XXIV. The eighteenth, or Perfian Daffodil, has 
a bulbous Root, a little blackifh on the out fide, fome- 
mhat like the Root of the Autumn Daffodil following, 
from this Root rijes up a naked Stalk about a foot 
high, bearing one pale yellow flower, breaking thro ’ 
a thin Skin, which fitjl enclofed it, compofed of fix 
Leaves, the three outermoji being a little larger than 
the reft, and having in its middle fix fmall Chives, 
and a larger Point el, of an unpleafant Smell. After 
the flower is paft, the Leaves come up, fometimes 
before Winter , but moft ufualty after the deep of 
Winter is paft, in the beginning oj the Lear, which 
are broad, long, and of a pale green color , like the 
Leaves of other Daffodils, but. not green, as the Au- 
tumn Daffodil is -, they alfo twine themfelves a lit- 
tle, as fome of the Pancratium or Ballard Sea Dafl 
fodils do. This differs from all other kinds of Daf- 
fodils in its manner of Growing , for it has never 
Leaves and flowers at one time together, wherein it 
is like unto a Colchicum, but in Root and Leaf it is 
a Daffodil. 
XXV. The ninteenth, or Greater Autumn Daf- 
fodil, has a Root great and round, covered over with 
a blackifh Skin, from whence rife up three or four 
fair broad and Jhort Leaves at firjl, but afterwards 
they grow longer, and of a very deep green color -, in 
the middle of which rifes up a Jhort Ji ff round foot- 
Jlalk, bearing one fair yellow flower, enclofed at firft 
in a thin Skin or Husk, and compofed of fix Leaves, 
as the former, with feveral Chives in the middle, as 
moft other Daffodils have, which pafs away without 
any appearance of Seed, or Head for Seed, tho' un- 
der the Head there is a little green Knot , which pof- 
fibly might contain and bear Seed, if the Clime was 
warm and friendly enough, or our Jharp Winters did 
not hinder it. 
XXVI. The twentieth, or Leffer Autumn Daffo- 
dil, has a Root like the former, but leffer, and co- 
vered with a like b/ackijh Skin ; from whence fpring 
forth deep green-color’ d Leaves, as in the lajl, but 
fmaller and narrower, a little hollow in the middle ; 
and after them the Stalk and flower, which is leffer 
than the other, and a little paler, confifting in fix 
fuch like Leaves, narrow and Jharp-pointed. Clufi- 
us fays, that the flowering of this Daffodil is more 
like to the Perfian Daffodil at feet. 23. above, than 
to the former Great Autumn kind ; tho ' with us it 
feems to imitate the latter or Great Autumn moft, in 
fending forth its Leaves firft, then its Stalk and 
flowers. 
XXVII. The Places. Whence the firft, fecond, 
third and fourth firft came, is now unknown : the 
fifth the Title (hews came out of the Weft Indies , 
and was firft brought into Spain, and from thence 
it was fent to us , and into feveral other parts of 
Europe : the fixth came from Conftaminople or Tra - 
pezuntia : the feventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and ele- 
venth are Natives of the Pyrenean Mountains, from 
whence they have been brought to us : the twelfth 
is faid to grow naturally in England , and is plenti- 
ful enough in all Country Gardens : the Original of 
the thirteenth is unknown : the fourteenth, Jixteenth 
and feventeenth are T urkifh Plants, and came to us 
from Conftaminople : the fifteenth grows in many 
places of Europe, as in Prance, Germany and Italy , 
as Clufnts has faid : the eighteenth grows in Perfiut 
and Turkey, and came to us from Conftaminople : 
the nineteenth and twentieth are alfo Turkijh Plants, 
and were fent to us from that Metropolis. Now, 
by Tranlplanting and great Care, they are made De- 
nizons, if not Natives, with us, and are to be 
found in moll Gardens of our Great and Exact 
florijls. 
XXVIII. The Times. The firft, fecond, third mi. 
fourth flower in March , but moll in April : the 
fifth flowers in June and July : the fixth flowers in 
December, if the former part of the Winter has 
been mild ; but moft ufually in the end of January, 
or in the beginning, middle or end of February : the 
feventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh flower in 
the latter end of March and thio’ the Month of 
April : the twelfth flowers about the middle or end 
of April : the thirteenth flowers in May : the four- 
teenth flowers early in March : the fifteenth, fif- 
teenth and feventeenth flower about the middle or 
end of April : the eighteenth, nineteenth and twen- 
tieth flower about the end of September and in 
OUober. 
XXIX. The Qualities. They are hot and dry 
in the firft Degree ; Attractive, Glutinative, V ulne- 
rary, Emetick and Arthritick. 
XXX. The 
