John Rea, Flora: Seu, De Flora Cultura (1665)
Date
1665
Author
Book title
Flora, Seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, A Complete Florilege, Furnished With all Requisites belonging to A Florist
Publication place
London
Printer
J.G.
Publisher
Richard Marriott
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
herbal
Summary
Chapters treat flower-groups, with subsections on specific flora, each introduced by its Latin name and then English version
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Laurocerasus. THe Bay-cherry is a stately ever green Tree, growing in some places ten or twelve foot high, but most commonly in a thick Bush full of boughs and branches, covered in the old with a gray, and in the young, green bark, plentifully adorned with thick, bright-shining green leaves, and many long stalks set with whitish flowers, which are succeeded by small Cherries, black when ripe, with stones like to the common Cherries. The aptness of this to be increased hath made it common, and therefore seldom admitted into curious Flower-gardens, yet it may be a fit ornament for Court-walls, and those on the North side of the Fruit-garden. (p. 15)
sample: Laurocerasus. THe Bay-cherry is a stately ever green Tree, growing in some places ten or twelve foot high, but most commonly in a thick Bush full of boughs and branches, covered in the old with a gray, and in the young, green bark, plentifully adorned with thick, bright-shining green leaves, and many long stalks set with whitish flowers, which are succeeded by small Cherries, black when ripe, with stones like to the common Cherries. The aptness of this to be increased hath made it common, and therefore seldom admitted into curious Flower-gardens, yet it may be a fit ornament for Court-walls, and those on the North side of the Fruit-garden. (p. 15)
Alston
XVII.I.269
Wing
R421
Other editions
1665: Wing R421 (Alston XVII.I.270);
1676: Wing R422 (Alston XVII.I.271)
1676: Wing R422 (Alston XVII.I.271)
