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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

This Woolly Iacinth hath many broad, long, and faire greene leaues,
very like vnto some of the Iacinths, but stiffer, or standing more
vpright, which being broken, doe yeeld many threeds, as if a little
fine cotton wooll were drawne out: among these leaues riseth vp a long
greene round stalke, a foote and a halfe high or more, whereon is set a
great long bush of flowers, which blowing open by degrees, first below,
and so vpwards, are very long in flowring: the toppe of the stalke,
with the flowers, and their little footstalkes, are all blew, euery
flower standing outright with his stalke, and spreading like a starre,
diuided into six leaues, hauing many small blew threeds, standing about
the middle head, which neuer gaue ripe seede, as farre as I can heare
of: the root is white, somewhat like the root of a Muscari, but as full
of wooll or threeds, or rather more, then the leaues, or any other part
of it.


        The Place.

        This hath been sent diuers times out of Turkie into England,
        where it continued a long time as well in my Garden as in
        others, but some hard frosty Winters caused it to perish with
        me, and diuers others, yet I haue had it againe from a friend,
        and doth abide fresh and greene euery yeare in my Garden.


        The Time.

        This flowred in the Garden of Mʳ. Richard Barnesley at Lambeth,
        onely once in the moneth of May, in the yeare 1606, after hee
        had there preserued it a long time: but neither he, nor any
        else in England that I know, but those that saw it at that
        time, euer saw it beare flower, either before or since.


        The Names.

        It is called by diuers _Bulbus Eriophorus_, or _Laniferus_,
        that is, Woolly Bulbous; but because it is a Iacinth, both in
        roote, leafe, and flower, and not a _Narcissus_, or Daffodill,
        it is called _Hyacinthus Eriophorus_, or _Laniferus_, The
        Woolly Iacinth. It is very likely, that Theophrastus in his
        seuenth Book & thirteenth Chapter, did meane this plant, where
        hee declareth, that garments were made of the woolly substance
        of a bulbous roote, that was taken from between the core or
        heart of the roote (which, as he saith, was vsed to be eaten)
        and the outermost shels or peelings; yet Clusius seemeth to
        fasten this woolly bulbous of Theophrastus, vpon the next
        Iacinth of Spaine.


_Hyacinthus Stellatus Bæticus maior, vulgò Perüanus._
The great Spanish Starry Iacinth, or of Peru.

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