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
There is another, that vsually riseth higher then the former
yellow, and is wholly of a pale yellow, but deeper at the spot.
_Albida lutea._ Pale Straw colour.
There is also another like vnto the pale yellow, but that the
falling leaues are whiter then all the rest of the flower.
_Mauritanica flaua serotina minor._ The small Barbary yellow.
There is a smaller or dwarfe kinde, brought from the backe
parts of Barbary, neare the Sea, like vnto the yellow, but
smaller and lower, and in stead of vpright leaues, hath small
short leaues like haires: it flowreth very late, after all
others haue almost giuen their seede.
_Versicolor Hispanica cærulea labris albis._
The party coloured Spanish.
We haue another sort is called the party coloured Spanish
bulbous Flowerdeluce, whose falling leaues are white, the
arched leaues of a whitish siluer colour, and the vpright
leaues of a fine blewish purple.
_Diuersitas._ The diuersity or variation of this flower.
Yet sometimes this doth vary; for the falling leaues will haue
either an edge of blew, circling the white leaues, the arched
leaues being a little blewer, and the vpright leaues more
purple.
Or the fals will be almost wholly blew, edged with a blewer
colour, the arched leaues pale blew, and the vpright leaues of
a purplish blew Violet colour.
Or the fals white, the arched leaues pale white, as the vpright
leaues are.
Of not of so faire a blewish purple, as the first sort is.
Some of them also will haue larger flowers then others, and be
more liberall in bearing flowers: for the first sort, which
is the most ordinary, seldome beareth aboue one flower on a
stalke, yet sometimes two. And of the others there are some
that will beare vsually two and three flowers, yet some againe
will beare but one. All these kindes smell sweeter then many of
the other, although the most part are without sent.
_Cærulea siue purpurea minor Lusitanica præcox._
The small early purple Portugall.
There is another kinde, that is smaller in all the parts
thereof then the former, the stalke is slender, and not so
high, bearing at the toppe one or two small flowers, all wholly
of a faire, blewish purple, with a yellow spot in euery one
of the three falling leaues, this vsually flowreth early, euen
with the first bulbous Flowerdeluces.
_Purpurea maior._ The greater purple.
We haue another purple, whose flower is larger, and stalke
higher, and is of a very reddish purple colour, a little aboue
the ground, at the foote or bottome of the leaues and stalke:
this flowreth with the later sort of Flowerdeluces.
_Purpurea serotina._ The late purple.
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