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 great Anemone of Constantinople hath broader and greener leaues
then any of the former kindes, and not so much diuided or cut in at
the edges, among which rise vp one or two stalkes, (seldome more from
one roote) hauing some leaues about the middle of the stalke, as other
Anemones haue, and bearing at the toppes of the stalkes one large
flower a peece, very double, whose outermost leaues being broadest,
are greenish at the first, but afterwards red, hauing sometimes some
greene abiding still in the leaues, and the red striped through it: the
other leaues which are within these are smaller, and of a perfect red
colour; the innermost being smallest, are of the same red colour but
turned somewhat inward, hauing no thrummes or threads in the middle,
as the former haue, and bearing no seede: the roote is blackish on the
outside, and white within, thicke and tuberous as the other kindes, but
thicker set and close together, not shooting any long slender rootes as
others doe. Some Gentlewomen call this Anemone, The Spanish Marigold.
_Anemone Chalcedonica altera siue Pauo maior flore duplici._
The great double Orenge tawney Anemone.
This other great Anemone of Constantinople hath his large leaues so
like vnto the last, that one can hardly distinguish them asunder; the
stalke hath also such like leaues set vpon it, bearing at the toppe a
faire large flower, consisting of many leaues set in two or three rowes
at the most, but not so thicke or double as the last, yet seeming to
be but one thicke rowe of many small and long leaues, of an excellent
red or crimson colour, wherein some yellow is mixed, which maketh that
colour is called an Orenge tawney; the bottomes of the leaues are red,
compassed with a whitish circle, the thrummie head in the middle being
beset with many darke blackish threads: the roote is like the former.
_Anemone Superitica siue Cyparissia._ The double Anemone of Cyprus.
This Anemone (which the Dutchmen call Superitz, and as I haue beene
enformed, came from the Isle of Cyprus) hath leaues very like the last
double Anemone, but not altogether so large: the flower consisteth
of smaller leaues, of colour very neare vnto the last double Orenge
coloured Anemone, but more thicke of leaues, and as double as the
first, although not so great a flower, without any head in the middle,
or thrums about it as is in the last, and differeth not in the roote
from either of them both.
Somewhat like vnto this kinde, or as it were betweene this and the
first kinde of these great double Anemones, we haue diuers other sorts,
bearing flowers very thicke and double; some of them being white,
or whitish, or purple, deepe or paler, and some of a reddish colour
tending to Scarlet or a Carnation colour, and some also of a blush
or flesh colour, and diuers other colours, and all of them continue
constant in their colours.
_Anemone Cacumeni Maringi siue Persica._ The double Persian Anemone.
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