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
Summer Sowebread hath round leaues like vnto the Romane Sowebread,
but somewhat cornered, yet with shorter corners then the Iuie leafed
Sowebread, full of white spots on the vpperside of the leaues, and very
purple vnderneath, sometimes they haue fewer spots, and little or no
purple vnderneath: the flowers hereof are as small, as purple, and as
sweete, as the purple Sowebread of the Spring time: the roote hereof is
likewise small, blacke, and round.
5. _Cyclamen Romanum rotundifolium._
Romane Sowebread with round leaues.
The Romane Sowebread hath round leaues, somewhat like vnto the common
Sowebread, but not fully so round pointed at the ends, a little
cornered sometimes also, or as it were indented, with white spots round
about the middle of the leaues, and very conspicuous, which make it
seeme the more beautifull: the flowers appeare in Autumne, and are
shorter, and of a deeper purplish red colour then the Iuie Sowebread,
rising vp before the leaues for the most part, or at least with them,
and little or nothing sweete: the roote is round and blacke, vsually
not so flat as it, but growing sometimes to bee greater then any other
kinde of Sowebread. There is sometimes some variety to be seene, both
[Sidenote: _Varietas._]
in the leaues and flowers of this kinde; for that sometime the leaues
haue more corners, and either more or lesse spotted with white; the
flowers likewise of some are larger or lesser, longer or rounder,
paler or deeper coloured one then another. This happeneth most likely
from the sowing of the seede, causing the like variety as is seene in
the Iuie leafed Sowebread. It doth also many times happen from the
diuersity of soyles and countries where they grow: the seed of this, as
of all the rest, is small and round, contained in such like heads as
the former, standing almost like the head of a Snake that is twined or
folded within the body thereof. This and the other Autumnall kindes,
presently after their sowing in Autumne, shoote forth leaues, and so
abide all the Winter, according to their kinde.
6. _Cyclamen folio hederæ autumnale._ Iuie leafed Sowebread.
The Iuie leafed Sowebread groweth in the same manner that the former
doth, that is, bringeth forth flowers with the leaues sometimes, or
most commonly before them, whose flowers are greater then the common
round leafed Sowebread, somewhat longer then the former Romane or
Italian Sowebreads, and of a paler purple colour, almost bluish,
without that sweete sent as is in the first kinde of the Spring: the
greene leaues hereof are more long then round, pointed at the ends, and
hauing also one or two corners on each side, sometimes much spotted on
the vpperside with white spots and marks, and sometimes but a little or
not at all; and so likewise sometimes more or lesse purple vnderneath:
all the leaues and flowers doe stand vsually euery one seuerally by
themselues, vpon their owne slender foote-stalkes, as most of all the
[Sidenote: _Varietas._]
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