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
We haue receiued them by their names expressed in their titles,
yet the last hath also been sent by the name of _Ornithogalum
Italicum_, but as all may easily see, it is not of that kindred.
1. _Moly montanum Pannonicum bulbiferum primum._
The first bulbed Moly of Hungary.
This first Hungarian Moly hath three or foure broad and long greene
leaues, folded together at the first, which after open themselues, and
are carried vp with the stalke, standing thereon one aboue another,
which is a foote high; at the toppe whereof doe grow a few sad reddish
bulbes, and betweene them long footstalkes, bearing flowers of a pale
purplish colour; after which followeth blacke seede, inclosed in
roundish heads: the roote is not great, but white on the outside, very
like vnto the roote of Serpents Moly, hereafter described, encreasing
much vnder ground, & smelling strong.
2. _Moly montanum Pannonicum bulbiferum secundum._
The second bulbed Moly of Hungary.
The second Moly hath narrower greene leaues then the former: the stalke
is about the same height, and beareth at the toppe a great cluster of
small greene bulbes, which after turne of a darker colour; from among
which come forth long foot-stalks, whereon stand purplish flowers: the
roote is couered with a blackish purple coate or skinne.
3. _Moly Serpentinum._ Serpents Moly.
This Moly must also be ioyned vnto the bulbous Molyes, as of kindred
with them, yet of greater beauty and delight, because the bulbes on the
heads of the small stalkes are redder, and more pleasant to behold: the
stalke is lower, and his grassie winding leaues, which turne themselues
(whereof it tooke the name) are smaller, and of a whiter greene colour:
it beareth among the bulbes purplish flowers also, but more beautifull,
the sent whereof is nothing so strong: the roote is small, round, and
whitish, encreasing into a number of small rootes, no bigger then pease
round about the greater roote.
4. _Moly caule & folijs triangularibus._ The three cornered Moly.
This three square Moly hath foure or fiue long, and somewhat broad
pale greene leaues, flat on the vpper side, and with a ridge downe the
backe of the leafe, which maketh it seeme three square: the stalke
which riseth vp a foote and a halfe high or better, is three square or
three cornered also, bearing at the toppe out of a skinnie huske diuers
white flowers, somewhat large and long, almost bell-fashion, with
stripes of greene downe the middle of euery leafe, and a few chiues
tipt with yellow in the middle about the head, wherein when it is ripe,
is inclosed small blacke seede: the roote is white on the outside, and
very like the yellow Moly; both roote, leafe, and flower hath a smacke,
but not very strong of Garlicke.
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