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
This female Satyrion hath longer and narrower leaues then the former,
and spotted with more and greater spots, compassing the stalke at the
bottome like the other: this beareth likewise a bush of flowers, like
vnto the other, but that each of these haue heads like hoods, whereas
the former haue none: in some they are white with purple spots, and in
others of a reddish purple, with deepe or darke coloured spots: the
roots are alike.
3. _Orchis Hermaphroditica candida._ The white Butterflie Orchis.
The rootes of this kinde take part with both the sorts of _Orchis_
and _Satyrium_, being neither altogether round, nor fully handed, and
thereupon it tooke the name, to signifie both kindes: the leaues are
two in number, seldome more, being faire and broad, like vnto the
leaues of Lillies, without any spot at all in them: at the toppe of
the stalke stand many white flowers, not so thicke set as the first or
second, euery one being fashioned like vnto a white Butterflie, with
the wings spread abroad.
4. _Orchis Melitias siue apifera._ The Bee flower or Bee Orchis.
This is a small and lowe plant for the most part, with three or foure
small narrow leaues at the bottome: the stalke is seldome above halfe
a foote high, with foure or fiue flowers thereon one aboue another,
hauing round bodies, and somewhat flat, of a kind of yellowish colour,
with purple wings aboue them, so like vnto an honey Bee, that it might
soone deceiue one that neuer had seene such a flower before: the roots
are two together, round and white, hauing a certaine _muccilaginesse_
or clamminesse within them, without any taste almost at all, as all or
the most part of these kindes haue.
5. _Orchis Sphegodes._ Gnats Satyrion.
The leaues of this Orchis are somewhat larger then of the Bee flower,
the stalke also somewhat higher: the flowers are fewer on the toppe,
but somewhat larger then of the Bee flowers, made to the resemblance
of a Gnat or great long Flie: the rootes are two round bulbes, as the
other are.
6. _Orchis Myodes._ Flie Orchis.
The Flie Orchis is like vnto the last described, both in leafe and
roote, the difference is in the flower, which is neither so long as the
Gnat Satyrion, nor so great as the Bee Orchis, but the neather part of
the Flie is blacke, with a list of ash-colour crossing the backe, with
a shew of legges hanging at it: the naturall Flie seemeth so to bee in
loue with it, that you shall seldome come in the heate of the day, but
you shall finde one sitting close thereon.
The Place.
These grow in many places of England, some in the Woods, as the
Butterflie, and the two former handed Satyrions: others on dry
bankes and barren balkes in Kent, and many other places.
The Time.
They flower for the most part in the beginning or middle of
May, or thereabouts.
The Names.
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