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
_Lilium Aureum._ The Gold red Lilly.
The second red Lilly without bulbes groweth much higher then the first,
and almost as high as any other Lilly: the roote hereof is white and
scaly, the leaues are somewhat longer, and of a darke or sad greene
colour; the flowers are many and large, standing vpright as all these
sorts of red Lillies doe, of a paler red colour tending to an Orenge on
the inside, with many blacke spots and lines on them, as in the former,
and more yellow on the outside: the seede vessels are like vnto the
roundish heads of other Lillies, and so are the seedes in them likewise.
1. _Lilium minus bulbiferum._ The dwarfe bulbed Lilly.
The first of the Lillies that carrieth bulbes on the stalke, hath a
white scaly roote like the former; from whence riseth vp a small round
stalke, not much higher then the first dwarfe Lilly, seeming to be
edged, hauing many leaues thereon of a sad green colour set about it,
close thrust together: the greene heads for flowers, will haue a kind
of woollinesse on them, before the flowers begin to open, and betweene
these heads of flowers, as also vnder them, and among the vppermost
leaues, appeare small bulbes or heads, which being ripe if they be
put into the ground, or if they fall of themselues, will shoote forth
leaues, and beare flowers within two or three yeares like the mother
plant, and so will the bulbes of the other hereafter described: the
flowers of this Lilly are of a faire gold yellow colour, shadowed ouer
with a shew of purple, but not so red as the first, or the next to bee
described. This Lilly will shoote strings vnder ground, like as the
last red Lilly will doe also, whereat will grow white bulbed roots,
like the rootes of the mother plant, thereby quickly encreasing it
selfe.
2. _Lilium Cruentum bulbiferum._ The Fierie red bulbed Lilly.
The second bulbed Lilly riseth vp with his stalke as high as any of
these Lillies, carrying many long and narrow darke greene leaues about
it, and at the toppe many faire red flowers, as large or larger then
any of the former, and of a deeper red colour, with spots on them
likewise, hauing greater bulbes growing about the toppe of the stalke
and among the flowers, then any else.
_Lilium Cruentum flore pleno._ The Fierie red double Lilly.
The difference of this doth chiefly consist in the flower, which is
composed of manie leaues, as if many flowers went to make one, spotted
with black spots, and without any bulbes when it thus beareth, which is
but accidentall, as the former double Lilly is said to be.
3. _Lilium maius bulbiferum._ The greater bulbed red Lilly.
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