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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 other is found in many places both of Germany and Hungary,
        in the moister grounds.


        The Time.

        The first flowreth in May: the other in Aprill, and sometimes
        in March.


        The Names.

        Carolus Clusius calleth the first _Bulbus vnifolius_, or
        _Bolbine_, but referreth it not to the stocke or kindred of any
        plant; but (as you see) I haue ranked it with the small sorts
        of _Ornithogalum_, and giue it the name accordingly.

        The other is referred for likenesse of forme, and not for
        colour, vnto the _Ornithogala_, or Starres of Bethlehem. It is
        called by Tragus and Fuchsius _Bulbus siluestris_, because of
        the obuiousnesse. Cordus taketh it to be _Sisyrinchium_. Lacuna
        calleth it _Bulbus esculentus_. Lobel and others in these
        dayes generally, _Ornithogalum luteum_, and wee thereafter in
        English, The yellow Starre-flower, or Starre of Bethlehem.


        The Vertues.

        The first kinde being but lately found out, is not knowne to be
        vsed. The rootes of the common or vulgar, are (as Matthiolus
        saith) much eaten by poore people in Italy, either rawe or
        roasted, being sweeter in taste then any Chestnut, and seruing
        as well for a necessary food as for delight. It is doubtfull
        whether any of the rest may be so vsed; for I know not any in
        our Land hath made any experience.


There are many other sorts of Starre-flowers, which are fitter for a
generall then this History; and therefore I referre them thereunto.




CHAP. XIII.

_Moly._   Wilde Garlicke.


Vnto the former Starre-flowers, must needes bee ioyned another tribe
or kindred, which carry their straked flowers Starre-fashion, not
spikewise, but in a tuft or vmbell thicke thrust or set together. And
although diuers of them smell not as the former, but most of their
first Grandfathers house, yet all doe not so; for some of them are of
an excellent sent. Of the whole Family, there are a great many which I
must leaue, I will onely select out a few for this our Garden, whose
flowers for their beauty of statelinesse, forme, or colour, are fit to
bee entertained, and take place therein, euery one according to his
worth, and are accepted of with the louers of these delights.


1. _Moly Homericum, vel potius Theophrasti._
The greatest Moly of Homer.

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