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
1. This Yellow Martagon hath a great scaly or cloued roote, and yellow,
like vnto all these sorts of turning Lillies, from whence springeth vp
a round greene strong stalke, three foote high at the least, confusedly
set with narrow long greene leaues, white on the edges vp to the very
toppe thereof almost, hauing diuers flowers on the head, turning vp
againe as the former doe, of a faint yellowish, or greenish yellow
colour, with many blacke spots or strakes about the middle of the leafe
of euery flower, and a forked pointell, with sixe chiues about it, tipt
with reddish pendents, of a heauie strong smell, not very pleasant to
many. It beareth seede very plentifully, in great heads, like vnto the
other former Lillies, but a little paler.
2. _Martagon Luteum non maculatum._ The Yellow Martagon without spots.
The other yellow Martagon differeth in no other thing from the former,
but onely that it hath no spots at all vpon any of the leaues of the
flowers; agreeing with the former, in colour, forme, height, and all
things else.
3. _Martagon Luteum serotinum._ The late flowring Yellow Martagon.
There is yet another yellow Martagon, that hath no other difference
then the time of his flowring, which is not vntill Iuly, vnlesse in
this, that the flower is of a deeper yellow colour.
The Place.
The knowledge of the first kindes of these early Martagons
hath come from Italy, from whence they haue bin sent into the
Low-Countries, and to vs, and, as it seemeth by the name,
whereby they haue bin sent by some into these parts, his
originall should be from the mountaines in Macedonia.
The second sort is sufficiently knowne by his name, being first
brought from Constantinople, his naturall place being not
farre from thence, as it is likely. But the next sort of this
second kinde, doth plainly tell vs his place of birth to be the
mountaines of Pannonia or Hungarie.
The third kindes grow on the Pyrenæan mountains, where they
haue been searched out, and found by diuers louers of plants,
as also in the Kingdome of Naples.
The Time.
The first early Martagons flower in the end of May, or
beginning of Iune, and that is a moneth at the least before
those that come from Constantinople, which is the second kinde.
The two first yellow Martagons flower somewhat more early, then
the early red Martagons, and sometimes at the same time with
them. But the third yellow Martagon, as is said, flowreth a
moneth later or more, and is in flower when the red Martagon of
Constantinople flowreth. And although the early red and yellow
Martagons, spring later then the other Martagons or Lillies,
yet they are in flower before them.
The Names.
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