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 kinde hath somewhat larger leaues then the last, of a yellowish
greene colour, without any mealinesse on them, or endenting about the
edges, but smooth and whole: the flowers are not larger but longer, and
not laide open so fully as the former, but of as deepe a yellow colour
as any Cowslip almost, without any circle in the bottome: neither of
these two last haue any shew of other colour then yellow in them,
sauing the white in the eye.
18. _Auricula Vrsi versicolor prima siue flore rubescente._
The blush Beares eare.
The blush Beares eare hath his leaues as large, and as hoary or mealy
as the third greater yellow, or straw coloured Beares eare; among
which riseth vp a stalke about foure inches high, bearing from six
to twelue, or more faire flowers, somewhat larger then the smaller
yellow Beares eare before described, hauing the ground of the flower
of a darke or dunne yellow colour, shadowed ouer a little with a shew
of light purple, which therefore we call a blush colour, the edges of
the flower being tipt with a little deeper shew of that purple colour,
the bottome of the flower, abiding wholly yellow, without any circle,
and is of very great beauty, which hath caused me to place it in the
forefront of the variable coloured Beares eares. And although some
might thinke it should be placed among the first ranke of Beares eares,
because it is of a blush colour, yet seeing it is assuredly gained from
some of the yellow kindes by sowing the seede, as many other sorts are,
as may be seene plainly in the ground of the flower, which is yellow,
and but shadowed ouer with purple, yet more then any of the rest that
follow; I thinke I haue giuen it his right place: let others of skill &
experience be iudges herein.
19. _Auricula Vrsi crinis coloris._ Haire coloured Beares eares.
The leaues of this kinde are more mealy like then the last blush kinde,
but somewhat longer and larger, and snipt about the edges in the same
manner, from the middle of the leafe forwards: the flower is vsually of
a fine light browne yellow colour, which wee doe vsually call an Haire
colour, and sometimes browner, the edges of the flower haue a shew or
shadow of a light purple or blush about them, but more on the outside
then on the inside.
20. _Auricula Vrsi versicolor lutea._
The yellow variable Beares eare.
This variable Beares eare hath his greene leaues somewhat like vnto the
deepe yellow, or Cowslip Beares eare before described, but somewhat of
a fresher greene, more shining and smaller, and snipt about the edges
towards the ends, as many of those before are: the flowers are of a
faire yellow colour, much laid open when it is full blowne, that it
seemeth almost flat, dasht about the edges onely with purple, being
more yellow in the bottome of the flower, then in any other part.
21. _Auricula Vrsi versicolor lutescente viridi flore._
The variable greene Beares eare.
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