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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 & 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

Name: 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
Author: Parkinson, John

Parkinson, John

Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800

There hath beene brought vnto vs diuers rootes of these kindes, with
the dryed flowers remaining on them, wherein there hath beene seene
more varieties, then I can well remember to expresse, which variety it
is very probable, hath risen by the sowing of the seeds, as is truely
obserued in the narrower leafed kinde of Flowerdeluce, in the Tulipa,
and in some other plants.

[Sidenote: _Flore luteo._]

Wee haue heard of one of this kinde of broad leafed Flowerdeluces, that
should beare a yellow flower, in the like manner as is to be seene in
the narrow leafed ones: but I haue not seene any such, and therefore I
dare report no further of it, vntill time hath discouered the truth or
falshood of the report.


[Illustration:

   1 _Iris bulbosa latifolia prima Clusii._ Clusius his first great
        bulbous Flowerdeluce.
   2 _Iris bulbosa maior cærulea siue Anglica._ The great blew of
        English bulbous Flowerdeluce.
   3 _Iris bulbosa maior purpurea variegata._ The great purple stript
        bulbous Flowerdeluce.
   4 _Iris bulbosa angustifolia maior alba._ The greater white narrow
        leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce.
   5 _Iris bulbosa angustifolia versicolor._ The party coloured narrow
        leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce.
   6 _Iris bulbosa angustifolia Africana._ The purple African bulbous
        narrow leafed Flowerdeluce.
]


        The Place.

        Lobelius is the first reporter, that the blew Flowerdeluce
        or first kinde of these broad leafed Flowerdeluces, groweth
        naturally in the West parts of England; but I am in some doubt
        of the truth of that report: for I rather thinke, that some in
        their trauels through Spaine, or other parts where it groweth,
        being delighted with the beauty of the flower, did gather the
        rootes, and bring them ouer with them, and dwelling in some of
        the West parts of England, planted them, and there encreasing
        so plentifully as they doe, they were imparted to many,
        thereby in time growing common in all Countrey folkes Gardens
        thereabouts. They grow also, and all the other, and many more
        varieties, about Tholouse, from whence Plantinianus Gassanus
        both sent and brought vs them, with many other bulbous rootes,
        and rare plants gathered thereabouts.


        The Time.

        These doe flower vsually in the end of May, or beginning of
        Iune, and their seede is ripe in the end of Iuly or August.


        The Names.

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