Ornithogalum Aethiopicum.
THe Star-flower of Ethiopia hath green leaves a foot long, and an inch broad, wooly when broken, and a stalk a cubit high, bearing
Flora, seu, De florum cultura, or, A complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist by John Rea, Gent.
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- Flora, seu, De florum cultura, or, A complete florilege, furnished with all requisites belonging to a florist by John Rea, Gent.
- Author
- Rea, John, d. 1681.
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- London :: Printed by J.G. for Richard Marriott ...,
- 1665.
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- Floriculture -- Early works to 1800.
- Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
- Fruit-culture -- Early works to 1800.
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from the middle to the top many large white star-like flowers, wi••h some yellowness in the bottoms of them, with a three-square head compassed with white threds, tipt with yellow; the root is thick, round and white, almost as tender as that of the first.
There are some other varieties, as the great white spiked Star of Bethlehem, which is like the former great white, but lesser, and not so good, the flowers grow in a larger spike, but much thinner set on the stalk; there are some others that bear small white flowers, not worth retaining.
The Arabian flowreth in May, the second in June, that of Naples and the yellow in April, but the Aethiopian not untill August.
They lose their fibres, and the roots may be taken up as soon as the stalks are dry, and kept out of the ground untill the end of Sep∣tember, except those of the yellow, which will not endure out of the earth but a little time: that of Arabia, and that of Ethiopia, are both tender and will not endure the extremity of our long frosty winters, therefore they must be planted in boxes, in rich hot sandy earth, and housed in winter; the yellow may be set among other tender roots that require to be covered and defended from frosts in winter, the other are hardy, and may be set in any place among other roots that lose their fibres.