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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

Their seuerall times are likewise expressed in their
        descriptions; for some shew forth their pleasant flowers in
        the Spring, wherein for the three first moneths, our Gardens
        are furnished with the varietie of one sort or another: the
        rest in Autumne, that so they might procure the more delight,
        in yeelding their beauty both early and late, when scarce any
        other flowers are found to adorne them.


        The Names.

        I shall not neede to trouble you with an idle tale of the name
        of Crocus, which were to little purpose, nor to reiterate
        the former names imposed vpon them; let it suffice that the
        fittest names are giuen them, that may distinguish them one
        from another; onely this I must giue you to vnderstand, that
        the gold yellow _Crocus_ or Saffron flower, is the true _Crocus
        Mæsiacus_, as I shewed before; and that neither the yellow
        stript, or cloth of gold (which wee so call after the Dutch
        name _Gaud Laken_) is the true _Mæsiacus_, as some suppose; and
        that the great white Saffron flower, by reason of his likenesse
        vnto the gold yellow, is called _Crocus albus Mæsiaci facie_,
        or _facie lutei_, that is, The white Saffron flower that is
        like the _Mæsiacus_ or yellow.


        The Vertues.

        The true Saffron (for the others are of no vse) which wee call
        English Saffron, is of very great vse both for inward and
        outward diseases, and is very cordiall, vsed to expell any
        hurtfull or venomous vapours from the heart, both in the small
        Pockes, Measels, Plague, Iaundise, and many other diseases, as
        also to strengthen and comfort any cold or weake members.


[Illustration:

   1 _Crocus vernus luteus vulgaris._ The common yellow spring Crocus.
   2 _Crocus verus sativus Autumnalis._ The true Saffron.
   3 _Crocus Byzantinus argenteus._ The siluer coloured Autumne Crocus.
   4 _Crocus Pyrenæus purpureus._ The purple mountaine Crocus.
   5 _Crocus montanus Autumnalis._ The Autumne mountaine Crocus.
   6 _Sisyrinchium maius._ The greater Spanish Nut.
]




CHAP. XVIII.

_Sisyrinchium._   The Spanish Nut.

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