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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 sweete Moly, which I haue kept for the last, to close vp your
senses, is the smallest, and the finest of all the rest, hauing foure
or fiue small greene leaues, almost as fine as haires, or like the
leaues of the Feather-grasse: the stalke is about a foote high, bearing
fiue or six or more small white flowers, laid open like Starres, made
of six leaues a peece, of an excellent sweete sent, resembling Muske or
Ciuet; for diuers haue diuersly censured of it. It flowreth late in the
yeare, so that if the precedent Summer bee either ouer moist, or the
Autumne ouer early cold, this will not haue that sweete sent, that it
will haue in a hot drie time, and besides must be carefully respected:
for it will hardly abide the extremity of our sharpe Winters.


        The Place.

        The places of these Molyes, are for the most part expressed in
        their titles, or in their descriptions.


        The Time.

        The time is set downe, for the most part to bee in Iune and
        Iuly, the rest later.


        The Names.

        To make further relation of names then are expressed in their
        titles, were needlesse; let these therefore suffice.


        The Vertues.

        All these sorts of Molyes are small kindes of wilde Garlicke,
        and are to be vsed for the same purposes that the great Garden
        Garlicke is, although much weaker in their effects. For any
        other especiall property is in any of these, more than to
        furnish a Garden of variety, I haue not heard at all.

And thus much may suffice of these kindes for our Garden, reseruing
manie others that might be spoken of, to a generall worke, or to my
Garden of Simples, which as God shall enable me, and time giue leaue,
may shew it selfe to the world, to abide the iudicious and criticke
censures of all.




CHAP. XIIII.

_Asphodelus._   The Asphodill.


There remaine some other flowers, like vnto the last described, to be
specified, which although they haue no bulbous rootes, yet I thinke
them fittest to bee here mentioned, that so I may ioyne those of
neerest similitude together, vntill I haue finished the rest that are
to follow.


1. _Asphodelus maior albus ramosus._
The great white branched Asphodill.

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