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
Next after these narrow leafed Flowerdeluces, are the greater and
smaller sorts of dwarfe kindes to follow; and lastly, the narrow
or grasse leafed dwarfe kindes, which will finish this Chapter of
Flowerdeluces.
1. _Chamæiris latifolia maior alba._
The greater white dwarfe Flowerdeluce.
This dwarfe Flowerdeluce hath his leaues as broad as some of the lesser
kindes last mentioned, but not shorter; the stalke is very short,
not aboue halfe a foote high or thereabouts, bearing most commonly
but one flower, seldome two, which are in some of a pure white, in
others paler, or somewhat yellowish through the whole flower, except
the yellow frize or thrume in the middle of euery one of the falling
leaues: after the flowers are past, come forth great heads, containing
within them round pale seed: the roote is small, according to the
proportion of the plant aboue ground, but made after the fashion of
the greater kindes, with tuberous peeces spreading from the sides, and
strong fibres or strings, whereby they are fastened in the ground.
2. _Chamæiris latifolia maior purpurea._
The greater purple dwarfe Flowerdeluce.
There is no difference either in roote, leafe, or forme of flower in
this from the former dwarfe kinde, but onely in the colour of the
flower, which in some is of a very deepe or blacke Violet purple, both
the toppes and the fals: in others the Violet purple is more liuely,
and in some the vpper leaues are blew, and the lower leaues purple,
yet all of them haue that yellow frize or thrume in the middle of the
falling leaues, that the other kindes haue.
[Sidenote: _Altera._]
There is another that beareth purple flowers, that might be reckoned,
for the smalnesse and shortnesse of his stalke, to the next kinde, but
that the flowers and leaues of this are as large as any of the former
kindes of the smaller Flowerdeluces.
3. _Chamæiris latifolia minor alba._
The lesser white dwarfe Flowerdeluce.
There is also another sort of these Flowerdeluces, whose leaues and
flowers are lesse, and wherein there is much variety. The leaues of
this kinde, are all for the most part somewhat smaller, narrower, and
shorter then the former: the stalke with the flower vpon it scarce
riseth above the leaues, so that in most of them it may be rather
called a foote-stalke, such as the Saffron flowers haue, and are
therefore called of manie ἄκαυλοι, without stalkes; the flowers are
like vnto the first described of the dwarfe kindes, and of a whitish
colour, with a few purplish lines at the bottome of the vpper leaues,
and a list of greene in the falling leaues.
[Sidenote: _Straminea._]
Another hath the flowers of a pale yellow, called a Straw colour, with
whitish stripes and veines in the fals, and purplish lines at the
bottome of the vpper leaues.
4. _Chamæiris latifolia minor purpurea._
The lesser purple dwarfe Flowerdeluce.
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