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
the little, or the least Spanish yellow bastard Daffodill, or the great
or little Spanish white Daffodill. The Turkie single white Daffodill,
or, The Turkie single or double white Daffodill many vpon a stalke,
&c. Of Fritillaria, or the checkerd Daffodill, there are halfe a score
seuerall sorts, both white and red, both yellow and blacke, which are a
wonderfull grace and ornament to a Garden in regard of the Checker like
spots are in the flowers. Of Iacinthes there are aboue halfe an hundred
sorts, as they are specified hereafter; some like vnto little bells
or starres, others like vnto little bottles or pearles, both white
and blew, sky-coloured and blush, and some starlike of many pretty
various formes, and all to giue delight to them that will be curious
to obserue them. Of Crocus or Saffron flowers, there are also twenty
sorts; some of the Spring time, others flowring onely in the Autume or
Fall, earlier or later than another, some whereof abide but a while,
others indure aboue a moneth in their glorious beauty. The Colchicum or
Medowe Saffron, which some call the sonne before the father, but not
properly, is of many sorts also; some flowring in the Spring of the
yeare, but the most in Autume, whereof some haue faire double flowers
very delightfull to behold, and some partly coloured both single and
double so variable, that it would make any one admire the worke of
the Creatour in the various spots and stripes of these flowers. Then
haue wee of Lillies twenty seuerall sorts and colours, among whom I
must reckon the Crowne Imperiall, that for his stately forme deserueth
some speciall place in this Garden, as also the Martagons, both white
and red, both blush and yellow, that require to be set by themselues
apart, as it were in a small round or square of a knot, without many
other, or tall flowers growing neare them. But to tell you of all the
sorts of Tulipas (which are the pride of delight) they are so many,
and as I may say, almost infinite, doth both passe my ability, and as
I beleeue the skill of any other. They are of two especiall sorts,
some flowring earlier, and others later than their fellowes, and that
naturally in all grounds, wherein there is such a wonderfull variety
and mixture of colours, that it is almost impossible for the wit of
man to descipher them thoroughly, and to giue names that may be true
& seuerall distinctions to euery flower, threescore seuerall sorts of
colours simple and mixed of each kind I can reckon vp that I haue,
and of especiall note, and yet I doubt not, but for euery one of them
there are ten others differing from them, which may be seen at seuerall
times, and in seuerall places: & besides this glory of variety in
colors that these flowers haue, they carry so stately & delightfull
a forme, & do abide so long in their brauery (enduring aboue three
whole moneths from the first vnto the last) that there is no Lady or
Gentlewoman of any worth that is not caught with this delight, or not
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