Opening the text

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

History

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

Name: 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
Author: Parkinson, John

Parkinson, John

Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800

This admirable Iacinth riseth vp with three or foure leaues, somewhat
like vnto the leaues of the Muske Grape-flower, but lesser; betweene
which riseth vp the stalke about a foote high, or somewhat more,
bearing at the toppe a bush or tuft of flowers, which at the first
appearing, is like vnto a Cone or Pineapple, and afterwards opening
it selfe, spreadeth into many branches, yet still retaining the forme
of a Pyramis, being broad spread below, and narrow vp aboue: each of
these branches is againe diuided into many tufts of threeds or strings,
twisted or curled at the ends, and of an excellent purple or Doue
colour, both stalkes and haires. This abideth a great while in his
beauty, but afterwards all these flowers (if you will so call them)
do fall away without any seede at all, spending it selfe as it should
seeme in the aboundance of the flowers: the roote is not so great as
the last, but white on the outside.


        The Place.

        The two first haue been sent diuers times from Constantinople,
        the third is found wilde in many places of Europe, and as well
        in Germany, as in Italy. The two last are onely with vs in
        Gardens, and their naturall places are not knowne vnto vs.


        The Time.

        The three former kindes doe flower in Aprill, the two last in
        May.


        The Names.

        The first and second haue no other names then are expressed in
        their titles. The third is called of some onely _Hyacinthus
        maior_ and of others _Hyacinthus comosus maior_: We call it in
        English, The purple faire haired Iacinth, because of his tuft
        of purple threeds, like haires at the toppe, and (as I said)
        of diuers Gentlewomen, purple tassels. The fourth is called by
        some as it is in the title, _Hyacinthus Comosus ramosus_, and
        of others _Hyacinthus Calamistratus_. And the last or fifth is
        diuersly called by diuers, Fabius Columna in his _Phytobasanos_
        the second part, calleth it _Hyacinthus Sannesius_, because
        hee first saw it in that Cardinals Garden at Rome. Robin of
        Paris sent to vs the former of the two last, by the name
        of _Hyacinthus Pennatus_, and _Hyacinthus Calamistratus_,
        when as others sent the last by the name _Pennatus_, and the
        other by the name of _Calamistratus_; but I thinke the name
        _Cincinnatus_ is more fit and proper for it, in that the curled
        threeds which seeme like haires, are better expressed by the
        word _Cincinnus_, then _Calamistrum_, this signifying but the
        bodkin or instrument wherewith they vse to frisle or curle the
        haire, and that the bush of haire it selfe being curled. Some
        also haue giuen to both these last the names of _Hyacinthus
        Comosus Parnassi_, the one fairer then the other. Of all these
        names you may vse which you please; but for the last kinde,

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.