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 rare Anemone, which is said to come out of Persia to
Constantinople, and from thence to vs, is in leafe and roote very like
vnto the former double Anemones before described; onely the flower
hereof is rather like vnto the second great double Orenge coloured
Anemone, vsually called _Pauo maior flore pleno_, being composed of
three rowes of leaues, the outermost rowe consisting of ten or twelue
larger leaues, and those more inward lesser and more in number, but all
of them variably mixed with white, red, and yellow, having the bottomes
of the leaues white: but instead of a middle head with thrums about it,
as the other hath, this hath a few narrow leaues, or a deepe yellow
colour in the middle of the flower, standing vpright.
Hauing thus farre proceeded in the two parts of the kindes of Anemones
or Windflowers, it remaineth to entreate of the rest, which is those
Anemones which haue thin cut leaues, whereof some haue reckoned vp
thirty sorts with single flowers, which I confesse I haue not seene;
but so many as haue come to my knowledge, I shall here set downe.
_Anemone tenuifolia siue Geranifolia cærulea._
The Watchet Anemone or Storkes bill leafed Windflower.
This first Windflower with thin cut leaues, riseth not out of the
ground vntil the great Winter frosts be past, that is, about the middle
or end of February, and are somewhat brownish at their first appearing,
but afterwards spread into wings of greene leaues, somewhat broader
then the rest that follow, diuided into three parts, & each part into
three leaues, euery one cut in about the edges, one standing against
another vpon a long slender foote-stalke, and the end leafe by it
selfe: among these riseth vp two or three greene stalkes, garnished
with such like thin leaues as are at the bottome, from aboue which rise
the flowers, but one vpon a stalke, consisting of fourteene or fifteene
small pale blew or watchet leaues, lesser then any of the single kindes
that follow, compassing many whitish threads, and a small greene head
in the middle, somewhat like the head of the wilde Crowfoote, wherein
is contained such like seede: the roote is blackish without, thrusting
out into long tuberous peeces, somewhat like vnto some of the broad
leafed Anemones.
[Sidenote: _Alba._]
Of this kinde there is another, whose leaues are not browne at their
first rising, but greene, and the flowers are white, in other things
not differing.
_Anemone tenuifolia purpurea vulgaris._
The ordinary purple Anemone with thin leaues.
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