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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

None of these are vsed for any Physicall respect, being
        generally held to be deadly, or dangerous at the least. Only
        the true Hermodactile (if it be of this tribe, and not this
        which is here expressed) is of great vse, for paines in the
        ioynts, and of the hippes, as the _Sciatica_, and the like,
        to be taken inwardly. Costæus in his Booke of the nature of
        plants, saith, that the rootes of our common kindes are very
        bitter in the Spring of the yeare, and sweet in Autumne, which
        Camerarius contradicteth, saying, that he found them bitter in
        Autumne, which were (as he saith) giuen by some imposters to
        diuers, as an antidote against the Plague.




CHAP. XVII.

_Crocus._   Saffron.


There are diuers sorts of Saffrons, whereof many doe flower in the
Spring time, and some in Autumne, among whom there is but one onely
kinde, that is called tame or of the Garden, which yeeldeth those
blades or chiues that are vsed in meates and medicines, and many wayes
profitable for other respects, none of the rest, which are all wilde
kindes, giuing any blade equall vnto those of the tame kinde, or for
any other vse, then in regard of their beautifull flowers of seuerall
varieties, and as they haue been carefully sought out, and preserued by
diuers, to furnish a Garden of dainty curiosity. To entreate therefore
of these, I must, to obserue an orderly declaration, diuide them into
two primary families: the former shall be of those that yeeld their
pleasant flowers in the Spring of the yeare, and the other that send
out their colours in the Autumne, among whom that _Rex pomarij_ (as
I may so call it) the tame or manured kinde, properly called of the
Garden, is to be comprehended, for that it giueth his pleasant flowers
at that time among others. I shall againe distribute those of the
Spring time into three chiefe colours, that is, into white, purple, and
yellow, and vnder euery one of them, comprehend the seuerall varieties
that doe belong vnto them; which course I will also hold with those of
the Autumne, that thus being rightly ranked, they may the more orderly
be described.


1. _Crocus Vernus albus purus minor._
The smaller pure white Saffron flower of the Spring.

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