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 late Moly that was sent me with the last described, and others
also from Spain, riseth vp with one long greene leafe, hollow and round
vnto the end, towards this end on the one side, breaketh out a head
of flowers, enclosed in a thinne skinne, which after it hath so stood
a good while, (the leafe in the meane time rising higher, and growing
harder, becommeth the stalke) breaketh, and sheweth a great bush or
head of buds for flowers, thicke thrust together, fashioned very like
vnto the forme of a Pineapple (from whence I gaue it the name) of the
bigness of a Walnut: after this head hath stood in this manner a moneth
or thereabouts, the flowers shew themselues to bee of a fine delayed
or whitish purple colour, with diuers stripes in euery of them, of
the same cup-fashion with the former, but not opening so plainly, so
that they cannot bee discerned to bee open, without good heede and
obseruation. It flowreth so late in Autume, that the early frosts doe
quickly spoile the beauty of it, and soone cause it to rotte: the roote
is small and round, and shining like the last, very tender also, as
not able to abide our sharpe Winters, which hath caused it vtterly to
perish with me.
12. _Moly Dioscorideum._ Dioscorides his Moly.
The roote of this small Moly is transparent within, but couered with a
thicke yellowish skinne, of the bignesse of an Hasell Nut, or somewhat
bigger, which sendeth forth three or foure narrow grassie leaues, long
and hollow, and a little bending downwards, of a whitish greene colour,
among which riseth vp a slender weake stalke, a foot and a halfe high,
bearing at the toppe, out of a thinne skinne, a tuft of milke white
flowers, very like vnto those of Ramsons, which stand a pretty while in
their beauty, and then passe away for the most part without giuing any
seede: this hath little or no sent of Garlicke.
We haue anothor of this sort that is lesser, and the flowers rounder
pointed.
13. _Moly Dioscorideum Hispanicum._ The Spanish Moly of Dioscorides.
This Moly came vnto me among other Molyes from Spaine, and is in all
things like vnto the last described, but fairer, larger, and of much
more beauty, as hauing his white flowers twice as great as the former;
but (as it seemeth) very impatient of our Winters, which it could not
at any hand endure, but quickly perished, as some others that came with
it also.
14. _Moly Moschatinum vel Zibettinum Monspeliense._
The sweete smelling Moly of Mompelier.
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