Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertuesParkinson, John
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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues
Parkinson, John
Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800
This spiked Starre-flower in his growing, is somewhat like vnto the
last described, but springeth not vp so early, nor hath his leaues so
greene, or large, but hath broad, long, whitish greene hollow leaues,
pointed at the end, among which riseth vp the stalke, which is strong
and high, as the former, hauing a great bush of flowers at the toppe,
standing spike-fashion, somewhat like the former, flowring in the same
maner by degrees, first below, and so vpwards; but it is not so thicke
set with flowers, nor so farre spread at the bottome as it, the flowers
also are not so white, and each of the leaues of them haue a greene
line downe the backe, leauing the edges on both sides white: after
the flowers are past, the heads for seede grow three square, like the
other, bearing such like blacke seede therein: the roote hereof is
vsually bigger then the last, and whiter on the outside.
3. _Ornithogalum Pannonicum._ The Hungarian Starre-flower.
This Hungarian Starre-flower shooteth out diuers narrow, long, whitish
greene leaues, spread vpon the ground before Winter, which are very
like vnto the leaues of Gilloflowers, and so abide aboue the ground,
hauing a stalke rising in the middle of them the next Spring, about
halfe a foote high or thereabouts, bearing many white flowers at the
toppe, with greene lines downe the backe of them, very like vnto the
ordinary Starres of Bethlehem: the roote is greater, thicker, and
longer then the ordinary Starres, and for the most part, two ioyned
together, somewhat grayish on the outside.
4. _Ornithogalum vulgare._ The Starre of Bethlehem.
The ordinary Starre of Bethlehem is so common, and well knowne in all
countries and places, that it is almost needlesse to describe it,
hauing many greene leaues with white lines therein, and a few white
flowers set about the toppe of the stalke, with greenish lines downe
the backe: the roote is whitish, and encreaseth aboundantly.
5. _Asphodelus bulbosus Galeni, siue Ornithogalum maius flore
subuirescente._
The bulbous Asphodill, or greene Starre-flower.
Diuers haue referred this plant vnto the Asphodils, because (as I
thinke) the flowers hereof are straked on the backe, and the leaues
long and narrow, like vnto the Asphodils; but the roote of this being
bulbous, I rather (as some others doe) ioyne it with the _Ornithogala_,
for they also haue strakes on the backe of the flowers. It hath many
whitish greene leaues, long and narrow, spread vpon the ground, which
spring vp in the beginning of the yeare, and abide vntill May, and then
they withering, the stalke springeth vp almost as high as the first,
hauing many pale yellowish greene flowers, but smaller, and growing
more sparsedly about the stalke vpon short foot-stalkes, but in a
reasonable long head spike-fashion: the seede is like vnto the second
kinde, but smaller: the roote is somewhat yellowish, like the first
great white kinde.
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