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
There are two other sorts hereof, and because they were found about
Bergomo, do carry that name, the one bigger or lesser then another, yet
neither so great as the former, hauing very little other difference to
bee obserued in them, then that they are smaller in all parts of them.
_Tulipa Boloniensis flore luteo._ The yellow Bolonia Tulipa.
The roote of this Tulipa may likewise bee knowne from the former red
(or any other Tulipa) in that it seldome commeth to bee so bigge, and
is not so woolly at the toppe, and the skinne or outside is somewhat
paler, harder, and sharper pointed: but the bottome is like the former
red, and not so eminent as the early or late Tulipas. This beareth
much longer and narrower leaues then any (except the Persian & dwarfe
yellow Tulipas) and of a whitish greene colour: it beareth sometimes
but one flower on a stalke, and sometimes two or three wholly yellow,
but smaller, & more open then the other kinds, and (as I said) smelleth
sweete, the head for seede is smaller then in others, and hath not that
crowne at the head thereof yet the seed is like, but smaller.
_Tulipa Narbonensis, siue Monspeliensis vel pumilio._
The French or dwarfe yellow Tulipa.
This Tulipa is very like vnto the yellow Bolonia Tulipa, both in roote,
leafe, and flower, as also in the colour thereof, being yellow: the
onely difference is, that it is in all things lesser and lower, and is
not so apt to beare, nor so plentifull to encrease by the roote.
_Tulipa Italica maior & minor._
The Italian Tulipa the greater and the lesser.
Both these kindes of Tulipas doe so neere resemble the last kinde,
that I might almost say they were the same, but that some difference
which I saw in them, maketh mee set them apart; and consisteth in these
things, the stalkes of neither of both these rise so high, as of the
first yellow Bolonia Tulipa: the leaues of both sorts are writhed in
and out at the edges, or made like a waue of the sea, lying neerer the
ground, and the flower being yellow within, is brownish or reddish on
the backe, in the middle of the three outer leaues the edges appearing
yellow. Both these kindes doe differ one from the other in nothing, but
in that one is bigger, and the other smaller then the other which I saw
with Iohn Tradescante, my very good friend often remembred.
_Tulipa Lusitanica, siue pumilio versicolor._
The dwarfe stript Tulipa.
This dwarfe Tulipa is also of the same kindred with the three last
described; for there is no other difference in this from them, then
that the flower hath some red veins running in the leaues thereof.
There are two other sorts of dwarfe Tulipas with white flowers, whereof
Lobel hath made mention in the Appendix to his _Aduersaria_; the one
whereof is the same that Clusius setteth forth, vnder the title of
_Pumilio altera_: but because I haue not seen either of them both, I
speake no further of them.
_Tulipa pumilio alba._ The white dwarfe Tulipa.
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