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
set them downe in so small a roome as this Book? Yet as I haue done
(in the former part of this Treatise) my good will, to expresse as
many of each kinde haue come to my knowledge, so if I endeauour the
like in this, I hope the courteous wil accept it, and hold me excused
for the rest: otherwise, if I were or could be absolute, I should take
from my self and others the hope of future augmentation, or addition
of any new, which neuer will be wanting. To begin therefore with the
wilde kinds (as they are so accounted) I shall first entreate of the
_Pulsatillas_ or Pasque flowers, which are certainly kindes of wilde
_Anemones_, both in leafe and flower, as may well be discerned by them
that are iudicious (although some learned men haue not so thought, as
appeareth by their writings) the rootes of them making one speciall
note of difference, from the other sorts of wilde _Anemones_.
1. _Pulsatilla Anglica purpurea._ The purple Pasque flower.
The Pasque or Passe flower which is of our owne Country, hath many
leaues lying on the ground, somewhat rough or hairie, hard in feeling,
and finely cut into many small leaues, of a darke greene colour, almost
like the leaues of Carrets, but finer and smaller, from among which
rise vp naked stalkes, rough or hairie also, set about the middle
thereof with some small diuided leaues compassing them, and rising
aboue these leaues about a spanne, bearing euery one of them one
pendulous flower, made of six leaues, of a fine Violet purple colour,
but somewhat deepe withall, in the middle whereof stand many yellow
threads, set about a middle purple pointell: after the flower is past,
there commeth vp in the stead thereof a bushie head of long seedes,
which are small and hoarie, hauing at the end of euery one a small
haire, which is gray likewise: the roote is small and long, growing
downewards into the ground, with a tuft of haire at the head thereof,
and not lying or running vnder the vpper crust thereof, as the other
wilde _Anemones_ doe.
2. _Pulsatilla Danica._ The Passe flower of Denmarke.
There is another that was brought out of Denmarke, very like vnto the
former, but that it is larger both in roote and leafe, and flower also,
which is of a fairer purple colour, not so deepe, and besides, will
better abide to bee mannured then our English kinde will, as my selfe
haue often proued.
[Sidenote: _Viriusque flore albo & flore duplici._]
Of both these sorts it is said, that some plants haue bin found, that
haue borne white flowers. And likewise one that bore double flowers,
that is, with two rowes of leaues.
3. _Pulsatilla flore rubro._ The red Passe flower.
Lobel, as I take it, did first set forth this kinde, being brought him
from Syria, the leaues whereof are finer cut, the flower smaller, and
with longer leaues, and of a red colour.
4. _Pulsatilla flore luteo._ The yellow Passe flower.
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