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
The former two sorts are called _Hyacinthus Orientalis
Brumalis_, and _Hyacinthus Orientalis præcox flore albo_, or
_cæruleo_. The third is called of many _Zumbul Indicum_, or
_Zumbul Indi_, and corruptly _Simboline_; of others, and that
more properly, _Hyacinthus Orientalis maior præcox_. The Turkes
doe call all Iacinths _Zumbul_, and by adding the name of
_Indi_, or _Arabi_, do shew from what place they are receiued.
In English, The greatest Orientall Iacinth; yet some doe call
it after the Turkish name _Zumbul Indi_, or _Simboline_, as
is said before. The rest haue their names set downe in their
titles, which are most fit for them.
_Hyacinthus Hispanicus minor Orientalis facie._
The little Summer Orientall Iacinth.
[Sidenote: _Flore cæruleo._]
This little Iacinth hath foure or fiue long narrow greene leaues, lying
vpon the ground, among which riseth vp a slender smooth stalke, about
a spanne high or more, bearing at the toppe many slender bleake blew
flowers, with some white stripes and edges to be seene in most of them,
fashioned very like vnto the flowers of the Orientall Iacinth, but much
smaller: the flower hath no sent at all; the seede is like the seede of
the English Iacinth, or Hares-bels: the roote is small and white.
[Sidenote: _Flore albo._]
There is another of this kinde, differing in nothing but in the colour
of the flower, which is pure white.
[Sidenote: _Flore rubente._]
There is also another, whose flowers are of a fine delayed red colour,
with some deeper coloured veines, running along the three outer leaues
of the flower, differing in no other thing from the former.
The Place.
These plants haue been gathered on the Pyrenæan Mountaines,
which are next vnto Spaine, from whence, as is often said, many
rare plants haue likewise been gathered.
The Time.
They flower very late, euen after all or most of the Iacinths,
in May for the most part.
The Names.
They are called eyther _Hyacinthus Hispanicus minor Orientalis
facie_, as it is in the title, or _Hyacinthus Orientalis
facie_, that is to say, The lesser Spanish Iacinth, like
vnto the Orientall: yet some haue called them, _Hyacinthus
Orientalis serotinus minor_, The lesser late Orientall Iacinth,
that thereby they may be knowne from the rest.
[Illustration:
1 _Hyacinthus Orientalis brumalis._ The Winter Orientall Iacinth.
2 _Zumbul Indi._ The greatest Orientall Iacinth.
3 _Hyacinthus Orientalis vulgaris._ The ordinary Orientall Iacinth.
4 _Hyacinthus Orientalis folioso caule._ The bushy stalked Orientall
Iacinth.
5 _Hyacinthus Orientalis flore duplici._ The Orientall Hyacinth once
double.
6 _Hyacinthus Orientalis flore pleno cæruleo._ The faire double blew
Orientall Iacinth.
]
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