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
And againe another, whose flower is of a purple colour like vnto
the second, but that round about that yellow spot, in the middle of
each of the three falling leaues (as is vsuall in all the bulbous
Flowerdeluces) there is a circle of a pale blew or ash-colour, the rest
of the leafe remaining purple, as the other parts of the flower is.
4. _Iris bulbosa maior flore rubente._
The great peach coloured bulbous Flowerdeluce.
There is another of these greater kindes, more rare then any of the
former, not differing in roote, leafe, or flower, from the former,
but onely that the flower in this is of a pale reddish purple colour,
comming somewhat neare vnto the colour of a peach blossome.
5. _Iris bulbosa maior siue latifolia alba._
The great white bulbous Flowerdeluce.
The great white bulbous Flowerdeluce, riseth not vp so early out of the
ground as the blew or purple doth, but about a moneth or more after,
whose leaues are somewhat larger, and broader then of the others: the
stalke is thicker and shorter, bearing vsually two very large and great
flowers, one flowring a little before the other, yet oftentimes both
in flower together in the end, of a bleake blewish white colour, which
wee call a siluer colour, while they are in the budde, and before they
be blowne open, but then of a purer white, yet with an eye or shew of
that siluer colour remaining in them, the three falling leaues being
very large, and hauing that yellow spot in the middle of each of them:
the seedes are likewise inclosed in heads, like vnto the blew or purple
kindes, but larger, and are of a reddish yellow colour like them: the
roote likewise is not differing, but greater.
6. _Iris bulbosa maior alba variegata._
The great white stript bulbous Flowerdeluce.
This white stript Flowerdeluce, is in roote, leafe, and flower, and in
manner of growing, like vnto the former white Flowerdeluce; the onely
difference is in the marking of the flower, being diuers from it: for
this hath in the white flower great veines, stripes, or markes, of a
Violet blew colour, dispersed through the leaues of the flower very
variably, which addeth a superexcellent beauty to the flower.
7. _Iris bulbosa maior siue latifolia versicolor._
The great party coloured bulbous Flowerdeluce.
There is no difference in this from the former, but in the flower,
which is of a whitish colour in the three falling leaues, hauing a
circle of ash-colour about the yellow spot, the three rigged leaues
being likewise whitish, but ridged and edged with that ash-colour, and
the three vpright leaues of a pale blewish white colour, with some
veines therein of a blewish purple.
[Sidenote: _Varietas._]
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