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, whose flower is wholly purple, except the
yellow spot, and flowreth later then any of the other purples.
_Purpurea rubescens labris cæruleis._
A reddish purple with blew fals.
There is yet another purple, whose vpright leaues are of a
reddish purple, and the falling leaues of a blew colour.
_Purpurea rubescens labris albido cæruleis._
A reddish purple with whitish blew fals.
And another of a reddish purple, whose falling leaues are of a
whitish blew colour, in nothing else differing from the last.
_Purpurea labris luteis._ Party coloured purple & yellow.
Another hath his falling leaues of a faire gold yellow, without
any stripe, yet in some there are veines running through the
yellow leaues, and some haue an edge of a sullen darke colour
about them: the vpright leaues in euery of these, are a Violet
purple.
_Purpurea labris ex albido cærulea & luteo mixtis._
Party coloured purple with stript yellow fals.
Another is altogether like this last, but that the falling
leaues are of a pale blew and yellow, trauersing one the other,
and the arched leaues of a pale purplish colour.
_Subpurpurea labris luteis._ Pale purple with yellow fals.
Another hath his vpright leaues of a paler purple, and the
falling leaues yellow.
A paler purple.
And another little differing from it, but that the arched
leaues are whitish.
_Subcærulea labris luteis._ Party coloured blew and yellow.
Another whose vpright leaues are of a pale blew, and the
falling leaues yellow.
And another of the same sort, but of a little paler blew.
_Crinis coloris elegantioris._ A faire haire colour.
We haue another sort, whose vpright leaues are of a faire
brownish yellow colour, which some call a _Fuille mort_, and
others an haire colour; the falling leaues yellow.
_Altera obsoletior._ A dull haire colour.
And another of the same colour, but somewhat deader.
_Iris bulbosa Africana serpentriæ caule._
The purple or murrey bulbous Barbary Flowerdeluce.
This Flowerdeluce as it is more strange (that is, but lately knowne
and possessed by a few) so it is both more desired, and of more beauty
then others. It is in all respects, of roote, leafe, and flower, for
the forme like vnto the middle sort of these Flowerdeluces, onely the
lowest part of the leaues and stalke, for an inch or thereabouts, next
vnto the ground, are of a reddish colour, spotted with many spots, and
the flower, being of a meane size, is of a deepe purplish red or murrey
colour the whole flower throughout, except the yellow spot in the
middle of the three lower or falling leaues, as is in all others.
_Purpurea cærulea obsoleta labris fuscis._
The duskie party coloured purple.
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