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 flowers of this little Medowe Saffron are narrower and smaller then
any of the former, and of a deeper reddish purple colour then either
the English or Hungarian kindes: the greene leaues also are smaller
then any other, lying on the ground, of a deepe or sad greene colour,
rising vp within a while after the flowers are past, and doe abide
greene all the Winter long: the roote is small and long, according to
the rest of the plant, and like in forme to the others.
12. _Colchicum montanum minus versicolore flore._
The small party coloured Medowe Saffron.
This little kinde differeth not from the Spanish kinde last set forth,
but in the varietie of the flower, which is as small as the former; the
three inner leaues being almost all white, and the three outer leaues
some of them pale or blush, and some party coloured, with a little
greene on the backe of some of them.
13. _Colchicum Hermodactilum._ Physicall Medowe Saffron.
This Physicall Medowe Saffron springeth vp with his leaues in Autumne,
before his flowers appeare beyond the nature of all the former kindes,
yet the flower doth, after they are vp, shew it selfe in the middle of
the greene leaues, consisting of six white leaues, with diuers chiues
in the middle, and passeth away without giuing any seede that euer
I could obserue: the greene leaues abide all the Winter and Spring
following, decaying about May, and appeare not vntill September, when
(as I said) the flowers shew themselues presently after the leaues are
sprung vp.
14. _Colchicum atropurpureum._ The darke purple Medowe Saffron.
The greatest difference in this kinde consisteth in the flower, which
at the first appearing is as pale a purple, as the flower of the former
Hungarian kinde: but after it hath stood in flower two or three dayes,
it beginneth to change, and will after a while become to bee of a very
deepe reddish purple colour, as also the little foote-stalke whereon it
doth stand: the flower is of the bignesse of the Hungarian purple, and
so is the greene leafe: the seede and roote is like the English purple
kinde.
15. _Colchicum atropurpureum variegatum._
The party coloured darke purple Medowe Saffron.
We haue of late gained another sort of this kinde, differing chiefly
in the flower, which is diuersly striped thorough euery leafe of the
flower, with a paler purple colour, whereby the flower is of great
beauty: this might seeme to bee a degeneration from the former, yet
it hath abiden constant with me diuers yeares, and giueth seede as
plentifully as the former.
16. _Colchicum flore pleno._ Double flowred Medowe Saffron.
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