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 Saffron flower is of the same kinde with the first, both in roote,
leafe, and flower, in none of them differing from it, but in that the
bottome of this flower, with that part of the short foote-stalke next
vnto it, is of violet or purple colour, and sometimes hauing here
and there some purple small lines, or spots on the white leaues: it
flowreth also with the first white, or somewhat later.
6. _Crocus vernus albus striatus._ The white stript Crocus.
This stript Saffron flower is likewise neare the same first kind,
or first white Crocus, hauing the like leaues and flowers, somewhat
larger, but as soone fading almost as it: but herein this flower
differeth, that it hath pale blewish lines and spots in all the leaues
thereof, and more principally in the three outer leaues: the root is
also white on the outside, like the first white, but greater, with
young ones growing round about it.
7. _Crocus vernus albus polyanthos versicolor._
The greater party coloured white Crocus.
The greater party coloured Saffron flower, hath his greene leaues
like vnto the second great white Crocus before mentioned, hauing more
flowers then any of the former, except the first great white, the
leaues whereof haue greater stripes then the last recited Crocus, but
of a purple Violet colour, making each leafe seeme oftentimes to haue
as much purple as white in them: the roote hereof is somewhat like the
second white, but of a little more duskie colour on the outside, and
not budding out on the sides at all, or very little.
8. _Crocus vernus albus versicolor._
The lesser party coloured white Crocus.
The leaues and flowers of this other party coloured Crocus, are for
bignesse in a manner equall with the last, but hath not so many flowers
rising together from the roote: the flower is finely marked with blew
strakes on the white flower, but nothing so much as in the former: the
roote also is like the last.
9. _Crocus Episcopalis._ The Bishops Crocus.
This party coloured or Bishops Saffron flower, is very like both in
leaues and rootes vnto the Neapolitane blew Crocus, but somewhat
greater: the flowers doe abide not so long time blowne, and hath all
the leaues either wholly white, with blew stripes on both sides of
them, or wholly of a fine delayed blew Violet colour, and the three
innermost more blew and finely striped, both on the inside and outside
of them, and sometimes it hath been seen to haue three leaues white,
and three leaues of a pale blew.
10. _Crocus vernus striatus vulgaris._ The ordinary stript Crocus.
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