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
This Moly hath two broad and very long greene leaues, like vnto the
yellow Moly, in this, that they doe compasse one another at the bottome
of them, between which riseth vp a strong round stalke, two foote high
or more, bearing at the toppe, out of a thinne huske, a number of faire
large flowers vpon long foot-stalkes, consisting of six leaues a peece,
spread open like a Starre, of a fine delayed purple or blush colour,
with diuers threeds of the same colour, tipt with yellow, standing
about the middle head: betweene the stalke and the bottome of the
leaues it hath some small bulbes growing, which being planted, will
soone spring and encrease: the roote also being small and round, with
many fibres thereat, hath many small bulbes shooting from them; but
neither roote, leafe, nor flower, hath any ill sent of Garlicke at all.
9. _Moly purpureum Neapolitanum._ The purple Moly of Naples.
The Neapolitane Moly hath three of foure small long greene leaues set
vpon the stalke after it is risen vp, which beareth a round head of
very fine purple flowers, made of six leaues a peece, but so closing
together at the edge, that they seeme like vnto small cuppes, neuer
laying themselues open, as the other doe; this hath some sent of his
originall, but the roote more then any part else, which is white and
round, quickly encreasing as most of the Molyes doe.
10. _Moly pyxidatum argenteum Hispanicum._
The Spanish siluer cupped Moly.
This Spanish Moly hath two or three very long rush like leaues, which
rise vp with the stalke, or rather vanish away when the stalke is risen
vp to bee three foote high or more, bearing a great head of flowers,
standing close at the first, but afterwards spreading much one from
another, euery flower vpon a long foote-stalke, being of a white
siluer colour, with stripes or lines on euery side, and fashioned small
and hollow, like a cuppe or boxe: the seede I could neuer obserue,
because it flowreth so late, that the Winter hindereth it from bearing
seede with vs: the roote is small and round, white, and in a manner
transparent, at least so shining, as if it were so, and encreaseth
nothing so much, as many of the other sorts: this hath no ill sent at
all, but rather a pretty smell, not to bee misliked.
11. _Moly serotinum Coniferum._ The late Pineapple Moly.
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