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
The great white Asphodill hath many long, and narrow, hollow three
square leaues, sharpe pointed, lying vpon the ground round about the
roote: the stalke is smooth, round, and naked without leaues, which
riseth from the midst of them, diuided at the toppe into diuers
branches, if the plant bee of any long continuance, or else but into
two or three small branches, from the sides of the maine great one,
whereon doe stand many large flowers Starre-fashion, made of six leaues
a peece, whitish on the inside, and straked with a purplish line downe
the backside of euery leafe, hauing in the middle of the flowers some
small yellow threeds: the seede is blacke, and three square, greater
then the seede of Bucke wheate, contained in roundish heads, which open
into three parts: the roote is composed of many tuberous long clogges,
thickest in the middle, and smaller at both ends, fastened together at
the head, of a darke grayish colour on the outside, and yellow within.
2. _Asphodelus albus non ramosus._ The white vnbranched Asphodill.
The vnbranched Asphodill is like vnto the former, both in leaues and
flowers, but that the flowers of this are whiter, and without any line
or strake on the backe side, and the stalkes are without branches: the
rootes likewise are smaller, and fewer, but made after the same fashion.
3. _Asphodelus maior flore carneo._ The blush coloured Asphodill.
This Asphodill is like to the last in forme of leaues and branches, and
differeth in this, that his leaues are marked with some spots, and the
flowers are of a blush or flesh colour, in all other things alike.
4. _Asphodelus minimus albus._ The least white Asphodill.
This least Asphodill hath foure or fiue very narrow long leaues, yet
seeming three square like the greatest, bearing a small stalke, of
about a foote high among them, without any branches, and at the toppe
a few white flowers, straked both within and without, with a purplish
line in the middle of euery leafe. The rootes are such like tuberous
clogges as are in the former, but much lesser.
5. _Asphodelus albus minor siue Fistulosus._
The little hollow white Asphodill.
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