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
The leaues of this Flowerdeluce are very like the former Sea
Flowerdeluce, and do a little stinke like them; the flowers are
differing, in that the vpper leaues are wholly purple or violet, and
the lower leaues haue white veines, and purple running one among
another: the seede and rootes differ not from the former purple Sea
kinde.
5. _Iris angustifolia minor Pannonica siue versicolor Clusij._
The small variable Hungarian Flowerdeluce of Clusius.
This Hungarian Flowerdeluce (first found out by Clusius, by him
described, and of him tooke the name) riseth vp with diuers small tufts
of leaues, very long, narrow, and greene, growing thicke together,
especially if it abide any time in a place; among which riseth vp many
long round stalkes, higher then the leaues, bearing two or three, or
foure small flowers, one aboue another, like the former, but smaller
and of greater beauty: for the lower leaues are variably striped with
white and purple, without any thrume or fringe at all; the vpper leaues
are of a blewish fine purple or Violet colour, & so are the arched
leaues, yet hauing the edges a little paler: the heads for seede are
smaller, and not so cornered as the other, containing seedes much
like the former, but smaller: the roote is blacke and small, growing
thicker and closer together then any other, and strongly fastened in
the ground, with a number of hard stringie rootes: the flowers are of a
reasonable good sent.
6. _Iris angustifolia maior flore duplici._
The greater double blew Flowerdeluce.
This Flowerdeluce, differeth not either in roote or leafe from the
first great blew Flowerdeluce of Clusius, but onely in that the leaues
grow thicker together, and that the flowers of this kinde are as it
were double with many leaues confusedly set together, without any
distinct parts of a Flowerdeluce, and of a faire blew colour with many
white veines and lines running in the leaues; yet oftentimes the stalke
of flowers hath but two or three small flowers distinctly set together,
rising as it were out of one huske.
[Illustration:
1 _Iris angustifolia Tripolitana._ The yellow Flowerdeluce of
Tripoli.
2 _Iris angustifolia maior cærulea._ The greater blew Flowerdeluce
with narrow leaues.
3 _Iris angustifolia minor Pannonica siue versicolor Clusii._ The
small variable Hungarian Flowerdeluce of Clusius.
4 _Iris angustifolia maior flore duplici._ The greater double blew
Flowerdeluce.
5 _Chamæiris angustifolia minor._ The lesser Grasse Flowerdeluce.
6 _Iris tuberosa._ The veluet Flowerdeluce.
]
7. _Iris angustifolia minor alba Clusij._
The small white Flowerdeluce of Hungary.
This likewise differeth little from the former Hungarian Flowerdeluce
of Clusius, but that the leafe is of a little paler greene colour,
and the flower is of a faire whitish colour, with some purple at the
bottome of the leaues.
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