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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 & 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

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

the name _Cincinnatus_, as I said, is the more proper, but
        _Pennatus_ is the more common, and _Calamistratus_ for the
        former of the two last.


[Illustration:

   1 _Hyacinthus Comosus albus._ The white haired Iacinth.
   2 _Hyacinthus Comosus Byzantinus._ The Turkie faire haired Iacinth.
   3 _Hyacinthus Comosus maior purpureus._ The purple faire haired
        Iacinth, or Purse tassels.
   4 _Hyacinthus Comosus ramosus, siue Calamistratus._ The faire haired
        branched Iacinth.
   5 _Hyacinthus Pennatus, siue Comosus elegantior._ The faire curld
        haire Iacinth.
]


1. _Hyacinthus Orientalis Brumalis, siue præcox flore albo._
The white Winter Orientall Iacinth.

This early Iacinth riseth vp with his greene leaues (which are in
all respects like to the ordinary Orientall Iacinths, but somewhat
narrower) before Winter, and sometimes it is in flower also before
Winter, and is in forme and colour a plaine white Orientall Iacinth,
but somewhat lesser, differing onely in no other thing, then the time
of his flowring, which is alwayes certaine to be long before the other
sorts.


2. _Hyacinthus Orientalis Brumalis, siue præcox flore purpureo._
The purple Winter Orientall Iacinth.

The difference of colour in this flower causeth it to bee
distinguished, for else it is of the kindred of the Orientall Iacinths,
and is, as the former, more early then the rest that follow: Vnderstand
then, that this is the same with the former, but hauing fine blewish
purple flowers.


3. _Hyacinthus Orientalis maior præcox, dictus Zumbul Indi._
The greatest Orientall Iacinth, or Zumbul Indi.

The roote of this Orientall Iacinth, is vsually greater then any other
of his kinde, and most commonly white on the outside, from whence rise
vp one or two great round stalkes, spotted from within the ground, with
the lower part of the leaues also vpward to the middle of the stalkes,
or rather higher, like vnto the stalkes of Dragons, but darker; being
set among a number of broad, long, and somewhat hollow greene leaues,
almost as large as the leaues of the white Lilly: at the toppe of the
stalkes stand more store of flowers, then in any other of this kinde,
euery flower being as great as the greatest sort of Orientall Iacinths,
ending in six leaues, which turne at the points, of a faire blewish
purple colour, and all standing many times on one side of the stalkes,
and many times on both sides.


4. _Hyacinthus Orientalis vulgaris diuersorum colorum._
The ordinary Orientall Iacinth.

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