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
We haue also some other of this kind, the first wherof hath his stalke
& leafe greener than the former, the stalke is a little higher, but not
bearing so thicke a head of flowers, although much more plentifull than
the lesser Mountaine Lilly, being altogether of a fine white colour,
without any spots, or but very few, and that but sometimes also: the
pendents in the middle of this flower are not red, as the former, but
yellow; the roote of this, and of the other two that follow, are of a
pale yellow colour, the cloues or scales of them being brittle, and
not closely compact, yet so as if two, and sometimes three scales or
cloues grew one vpon the head or vpperpart of another; which difference
is a speciall note to know these three kindes, from any other kinde
of Mountaine Lilly, as in all old rootes that I haue seene, I haue
obserued, as also in them that are reasonably well growne, but in the
young rootes it is not yet so manifest.
_Martagon flore albo maculato._ The White spotted Martagon.
The second is like vnto the first in all things, saue in this, that
the flowers hereof are not altogether so white, and besides hath many
reddish spots on the inside of the leaues of the flower, and the stalke
also is not so greene but brownish.
_Martagon flore carneo._ The blush Martagon.
A third sort there is of this kinde, whole flowers are wholly of a
delayed flesh colour, with many spots on the flowers, and this is the
difference hereof from the former.
_Lilium Montanum siue siluestre minus._ The lesser Mountaine Lilly.
The lesser Mountaine Lilly is so like in root vnto the greater that is
first described, that it is hard to distinguish them asunder; but when
this is sprung vp out of the ground, which is a moneth after the first:
it also carrieth his leaues in rondles about the stalke, although not
altogether so great nor so many. The flowers are more thinly set on the
stalkes one aboue another, with more distance betweene each flower than
the former, and are of a little deeper flesh colour or purple, spotted
in the same manner. The buds or heads of flowers, in some of these
before they be blowne, are hoary white, or hairie, whereas in others,
there is no hoarinesse at all, but the buddes are smooth and purplish:
in other things this differeth not from the former.
[Sidenote: _Lilium Montanum non maculatum._]
Of this sort also there is one that hath but few spots on the flowers,
whose colour is somewhat paler than the other.
[Illustration:
1 _Martagon flore albo._ The white Martagon.
2 _Martagon siue Lilium Canadense maculatum._ The spotted Martagon,
or Lilly of Canada.
3 _Martagon Pomponeum._ The Martagon Pompony, or early red Martagon.
]
_Martagon Canadense maculatum._ The spotted Martagon of Canada.
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