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
Of this vulgar kinde there is some difference in the flower, although
in nothing else: the flowers stand many vpon a stalke like the former,
but euery one of them are as if three or foure small flowers were
ioyned together, with euery one his spurre behinde, the greatest flower
being outermost, and as it were containing the rest, which are of a
pale red, or deepe blush colour: Another of this kinde will beare his
flowers with three or foure rowes of leaues in the middle, making a
double flower with one spurre behinde onely: and of this kinde there is
both with purple, blew, blush, and white flowers, and party coloured
also; these doe all beare seed like the single, wherby it is increased
euery yeare.
3. _Delphinium aruense._ Wilde Larkes spurres.
This wilde Larkes spurre hath smaller and shorter leaues, smaller and
lower branches, and more thinly or sparsedly growing vpon them, then
any of the former: the flowers likewise are neyther so large as any
of the former, nor so many growing together, the cods likewise haue
smaller seede, and is harder to grow in gardens then any of the former,
the most vsuall colour hereof is a pale reddish or blush colour, yet
sometimes they are found both white and blew, and sometimes mixt of
blew and blush, variably disposed, as nature can when she listeth; but
are much more rare.
4. _Delphinium elatius flore simplici diuersorum colorum._
Single vpright bearing Larkes heeles of many colours.
The difference betweene this and the last is, that the leaues of this
are not fully so greene, nor so large; the stalkes grow vpright,
to the height of a man, and sometimes higher, hauing some branches
thereon, but fewer then the former, and standing likewise vpright, and
not leaning downe as the former: the toppes of the stalkes are better
stored with flowers then the other, being sometimes two foote long
and aboue, of the same fashion, but not altogether so large, but of
more diuers and seueral colours, as white, pale, blush, redde deeper
or paler, ashcoloured, purple or violet, and of an ouerworne blewish
purple, or iron colour: for of all these we haue simple, without any
mixture or spot: but we haue other sorts, among the simple colours,
that rise from the same seede, and will haue flowers that wil be halfe
white, and halfe blush or purple, or one leafe white, and another blush
or purple, or else variably mixed and spotted: the seede and seede
vessels are like the former but larger and harder.
5. _Delphinium elatius flore pleno diuersorum colorum._
Double vpright Larkes heeles of many colours.
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