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
like round reddish yellow seedes, but smaller then the former: the
roote is smaller and shorter then the former, and without any haires
or threeds, couered with browne thin skinnes, and more plentifull in
giuing encrease.
_Iris bulbosa angustifolia alba flore maiore._
The greater white narrow leafed bulbous Flowerdeluce.
I shall not neede to make a seuerall description to euery one of
these Flowerdeluces that follow, for that were but to make often
repetition of one thing, which being once done, as it is, may well
serue to expresse all the rest, and but onely to adde the especiall
differences, either in leafe or flower, for bignesse, colour, or forme,
as is expedient to expresse and distinguish them seuerally. This
greater white bulbous Flowerdeluce is like vnto the last described in
all parts, sauing that it is a little larger and higher, both in leafe,
stalke, and flower, and much whiter then any of these mixed sorts that
follow, yet not so white as the former: the roote hereof is likewise a
little bigger and rounder in the middle.
_Albescens._ Milke white.
There is another, whose falling leaues haue a little shew of
yellownesse in them, and so are the middle ridges of the arched
leaues, but the vpright leaues are more white, not differing in
roote or leafe from the first white.
_Argentea._ Siluer colour.
And another, whose falls are of a yellowish white, like the
last, the arched leaues are whiter, and the vpright leaues of a
blewish white, which we call a siluer colour.
_Albida._ Whitish.
Another hath the fals yellowish, and sometimes with a little
edge of white about them, and sometimes without; the vpright
leaues are whitish, as the arched leaues are, yet the ridge
yellower.
_Albida labris luteis._ White with yellow fals.
Another hath his fals yellow, and the vpright leaues white,
all these flowers are about the same bignesse with the first.
_Albida angustior._ The narrow white.
But we haue another, whose flower is smaller, and almost as
white as the second, the lower leaues are small, and doe as
it were stand outright, not hauing almost any fal at all,
so that the yellow spot seemeth to be the whole leafe, the
arched leaues are not halfe so large as in the former, and
the vpright leaues bowe themselues in the middle, so that the
tops doe as it were meete together.
And another of the same, whose falling leaues are a little
more eminent and yellow, with a yellower spot.
_Aurea siue lutea Hispanica._ The Spanish yellow.
We haue another kinde that is called the Spanish yellow, which
riseth not vp so high, as ordinarily most of the rest doe, and
is wholly of a gold yellow colour.
_Pallide lutea._ Straw colour.
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