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
This Grasse Flowerdeluce hath many long and narrow darke greene leaues,
not so stiffe as the former, but lither, and bending their ends downe
againe, among which rise vp diuers stalkes, bearing at the toppe two
or three sweete flowers, as small as any of them set downe before, of
a reddish purple colour, with whitish yellow and purple strakes downe
the middle of the falling leaues: the arched leaues are of a horse
flesh colour all along the edges, and purple vpon the ridges and tips
that turne vp againe: vnder these appeare three browne aglets, like
vnto birds tongues: the three vpper leaues are small and narrow, of a
perfect purple or Violet colour: the heads for seede haue sharper and
harder cornered edges then the former: the seedes are somewhat grayish
like the former, and so are the rootes, being small, blacke, and hard,
growing thicke together, fastened in the ground with small blackish
hard strings, which hardly shoote againe if the roote be remoued.
10. _Chamæiris angustifolia minor._ The lesser Grasse Flowerdeluce.
This Flowerdeluce is in leaues, flowers, and rootes so like the last
described, that but onely it is smaller and lower, it is not to be
distinguished from the other. And this may suffice for these sorts of
Flowerdeluces, that furnish the Gardens of the curious louers of these
varieties of nature, so farre forth as hath passed vnder our knowledge.
There are some other that may be referred hereunto, but they belong to
another history; and therefore I make no mention of them in this place.
The Place.
The places of most of these are set downe in their seuerall
titles; for some are out of Turkie, others out of Hungaria,
Dalmatia, Illyria, &c. as their names doe import. Those that
grow by the Sea, are found in Spaine and France.
The Time.
Some of these do flower in Aprill, some in May, and some not
vntill Iune.
The Names.
The names expressed are the fittest agreeing vnto them, and
therefore it is needlesse againe to repeate them. Many of the
rootes of the former or greater kindes, being dryed are sweete,
yet some more then other, and some haue no sent at all: but
aboue all the rest, that with the white flower, called of
Florence, is accounted of all to be the sweetest root, fit to
be vsed to make sweete powders, &c. calling it by the name of
_Orris_ rootes.
_Iris tuberosa._ The Veluet Flowerdeluce.
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