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
1. _Iris angustifolia Tripolitana aurea._
The yellow Flowerdeluce of Tripoly.
This Flowerdeluce I place in the forefront of the narrow leafed
Flowerdeluces, for the length of the leaues, compared with the breadth
of them; it may fitly bee called a narrow leafed Flowerdeluce, although
they be an inch broad, which is broader then any of them that follow,
or some of those are set downe before, but as I said, the length make
them seem narrow, and therefore let it take vp his roome in this place,
with the description that followeth. It beareth leaues a yard long, or
not much lesse, and an inch broad, as is said before, or more, of a sad
greene colour, but not shining: the stalke riseth vp to be foure of
fiue foote high, being strong and round, but not very great, bearing
at the toppe two or three long and narrow gold yellow flowers, of the
fashion of the bulbous Flowerdeluces, as the next to bee described is,
without any mixture or variation therein: the heads for seede are three
square, containing within them many flat cornered seedes: the roote
is long and blackish, like vnto the rest that follow, but greater and
fuller.
[Illustration:
1 _Iris Chalcedonica siue Susiana maior._ The great Turkie
Flowerdeluce.
2 _Iris alba Florentina._ The white Flowerdeluce.
3 _Iris latifolia variegata._ The variable Flowerdeluce.
4 _Chamæiris latifolia maior._ The greater dwarfe Flowerdeluce.
]
2. _Iris angustifolia maior cærulea._
The greater blew Flowerdeluce with narrow leaues.
This kinde of Flowerdeluce hath his leaues very long and narrow, of a
whitish greene colour, but neither so long or broad as the last, yet
broader, thicker and stiffer then any of the rest with narrow leaues
that follow: the stalke riseth sometimes no higher then the leaues,
and sometimes a little higher, bearing diuers flowers at the top,
successiuely flowring one after another, and are like vnto the flowers
of the bulbous Flowerdeluces, but of a light blew colour, and sometimes
deeper: after the flowers are past, rise vp six cornered heads, which
open into three parts, wherein is contained browne seede, almost round:
the roote is small, blackish and hard, spreading into many long heads,
and more closely growing or matting together.
3. _Iris angustifolia purpurea marina._
The purple narrow leafed Sea Flowerdeluce.
This Sea Flowerdeluce hath many narrow hard leaues as long as the
former, and of a darke greene colour, which doe smell a little strong:
the stalke beareth two or three flowers like the former, but somewhat
lesse, and of a darke purple or Violet colour: in seede and roote it is
like the former.
4. _Iris angustifolia purpurea versicolor._
The variable purple narrow leafed Flowerdeluce.
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