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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

10. _Cyclamen vulgare folio rotundo._   The common Sowebread.

The common Sowebread (which is most vsed in the Apothecaries Shops)
hath many leaues spread vpon the ground, rising from certaine small
long heads, that are on the greater round rootes, as vsually most of
the former sorts doe, being in the like manner folded together, and
after spread themselues into round greene leaues, somewhat like vnto
the leaues of _Asarum_, but not shining, without any white spots on
the vpperside for the most part, or but very seldome, and reddish or
purplish vnderneath, and very seldome greener: the flowers stand vpon
small foot-stalkes, and shew themselues open for the most part, before
any leaues doe appeare, being smaller and shorter then those with Iuie
leaues, and of a pale purple colour, yet sometimes deeper, hanging
downe their heads, and turning vp their leaues againe, as all others
doe, but more sweete then many other of the Autumne flowers: after the
flowers are past, come the heads turning or winding themselues downe
in like manner as the other doe, hauing such like seede, but somewhat
larger, and more vneuen, or not so round at the least: the roote is
round, and not flat, of a browner colour, and not so blacke on the
outside as many of the others.


        The Place.

        The Sowebreads of the Spring doe both grow on the Pyrenæan
        Mountaines in Italy, and in Candy, and about Mompelier in
        France; Antioch in Syria also hath yeelded some both of the
        Spring and Autumne. Those with round and Iuie leaues grow in
        diuers places both of France and Italy: and the common in
        Germany, and the Lowe-Countries. But that Autumne Sowebread
        with white flowers, is reported to grow in the Kingdome of
        Naples. I haue very curiously enquired of many, if euer they
        found them in any parts of England, neare or further off from
        the places where they dwell: but they haue all affirmed, that
        they neuer found, or euer heard of any that haue found of any
        of them. This onely they haue assured, that there groweth none
        in the places, where some haue reported them to grow.


        The Time.

        Those of the Spring doe flower about the end of Aprill, or
        beginning of May. The other of the Summer, about the end of
        Iune or in Iuly. The rest some in August, and September, others
        in October.


        The Names.

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