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 Cyclamen or Sowebread is a flower of rare receipt,
because it is naturally hard to encrease, and that the flowers are like
vnto red or blush coloured Violets, flowring in the end of Summer or
beginning of Autumne: the leaues likewise hereof haue no small delight
in their pleasant colour, being knotted and circled white vpon greene,
and that which most preferreth it, is the Physicall properties thereof
for women, which I will declare when I shall shew you the seuerall
descriptions of the varieties in his proper place. Many other sorts of
flowers there are fit to furnish this Garden, as Leucoium or Bulbous
Violet, both early and late flowring. Muscari or Muske Grape flower.
Starre flowers of diuers sorts. Phalangium or Spiderwort, the chiefe
of many is that sort whose flowers are like vnto a white Lilly. Winter
Crowfoote or Wolfes bane. The Christmas flower like vnto a single
white Rose. Bell flowers of many kindes. Yellow Larkes spurre, the
prettiest flower of a score in a Garden. Flower-gentle or Floramour.
Flower of the Sunne. The Maruaile of Peru or of the world. Double Marsh
Marigold or double yellow Buttons, much differing and farre exceeding
your double yellow Crowfoote, which some call Batchelours Buttons.
Double French Marigolds that smell well, and is a greater kinde than
the ordinary, and farre surpasseth it. The double red Ranunculus or
Crowfoote (farre excelling the most glorious double Anemone) and is
like vnto our great yellow double Crowfoote. Thus having giuen you
the knowledge of some of the choisest flowers for the beds of this
Garden, let me also shew you what are fittest for your borders and for
your arbours. The Iasmine white and yellow. The double Honysockle.
The Ladies Bower, both white, and red, and purple single and double,
are the fittest of Outlandish plants to set by arbours and banqueting
houses, that are open, both before and aboue to helpe to couer them,
and to giue both sight, smell, and delight. The sorts of Roses are
fittest for Standards in the hedges or borders. The Cherry Bay or
Laurocerasus. The Rose Bay or Oleander. The white and the blew Syringa
or Pipe tree, are all gracefull and delightfull to set at seuerall
distances in the borders of knots; for some of them giue beautifull and
sweete flowers. The Pyracantha or Prickly Corall tree doth remaine with
greene leaues all the yeare, and may be plashed, or laid downe, or tyed
to make a fine hedge to border the whole knot, as is said before. The
Wilde Bay or Laurus Tinus, doth chiefly desire to be sheltered vnder a
wall, where it will best thriue, and giue you his beautifull flowers
in Winter for your delight, in recompence of his fenced dwelling. The
dwarfe Bay or Mesereon, is most commonly either placed in the midst of
a knot, or at the corners thereof, and sometimes all along a walke for
the more grace. And thus to fit euery ones fancy, I haue shewed you the
variety of natures store in some part for you to dispose of them to
your best content.
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