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
but the double kindes are much more rare, and possessed but of a few,
and those onely that will bee carefull to preserue them in Winter; for
besides that the most of them are more tender, they yeeld no seede as
the single kindes doe to preserue them, although one kinde from the
sowing of the seed yeeld double flowers: They will all require the
comfort of the Sunne, especially the double kindes, and to be defended
from cold, yet so as in the Summer they doe not want water wherein they
much ioy, and which is as it were their life. Queenes Gilloflowers
(which some call Dames Violets, and some Winter Gilloflowers, are a
kinde of Stock-Gilloflower) planted in Gardens to serue to fill vp
the parts thereof for want of better things, hauing in mine opinion
neither sight nor sent much to commend them. Violets are the Springs
chiefe flowers for beauty, smell, and vse, both single and double, the
more shadie and moist they stand the better. Snapdragon are flowers of
much more delight, and in that they are more tender to keep, and will
hardly endure the sharpe Winters, vnlesse they stand well defended,
are scarce seene in many Gardens. Columbines single and double, of
many sorts, fashions, and colours, very variable both speckled and
party coloured, are flowers of that respect, as that no Garden would
willingly bee without them, that could tell how to haue them, yet the
rarer the flowers are, the more trouble to keepe; the ordinary sorts on
the contrary part will not be lost, doe what one will. Larkes heeles,
or spurres, or toes, as in seuerall Countries they are called, exceed
in the varietie of colours, both single and double, any of the former
times; for vntill of late dayes none of the most pleasant colours
were seene or heard of: but now the single kindes are reasonable well
disperst ouer the Land, yet the double kindes of all those pleasant
colours (and some other also as beautifull) which stand like little
double Roses, are enioyed but of a few: all of them rise from seed, and
must be sowne euery yeare, the double as well as the single. Pansyes
or Hartes eases of diuers colours, and although without sent, yet not
without some respect and delight. Double Poppies are flowers of a great
and goodly proportion, adorning a Garden with their variable colours
to the delight of the beholders, wherein there is some speciall care
to be taken, lest they turne single; and that is, if you see them
grow vp too thicke, that you must pull them vp, and not suffer them
to grow within lesse than halfe a yard distance, or more one from
another. Double Daisies are flowers not to be forgotten, although they
be common enough in euery Garden, being both white and red, both blush
and speckled, or party coloured, besides that which is called Iacke
an Apes on horsebacke, they require a moist and shadowie place; for
they are scorched away, if they stand in the Sunne in any dry place.
Double Marigolds also are the most common in all Gardens. And so are
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