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 purple Anemone which is most common, and therefore the lesse
regarded, hath many winged leaues standing vpon seuerall stalkes, cut
and diuided into diuers leaues, much like vnto the leaues of a Carrot;
among which rise vp stalkes with some leaues thereon (as is vsuall
to the whole Family of Anemones, both wilde and tame, as is before
said;) at the toppes whereof stand the flowers, made of six leaues
most vsually, but sometimes they will haue seuen or eight, being very
large, and of a perfect purple Violet colour, very faire and liuely:
the middle head hath many blackish thrums or threads about it, which I
could neuer obserue in my Gardens to beare seed: the roote is smaller,
and more spreading euery way into small long flat tuberous parts, then
any other kindes of single or double Anemones.
_Carneapallida._
There is another very like in leafe and roote vnto the former,
but the flower is nothing so large, and is whitish, tending to
a blush colour, and of a deeper blush colour toward the bottome
of the flower, with blackish blew thrums in the middle, and
giueth no seede that I could euer obserue.
_Carnea viuida vnguibus albis._
There is likewise another like vnto the last in leafe and
flower, but that the flower is larger then it, and is a of
liuely blush colour, the leaues hauing white bottomes.
_Alba venis purpureis._
And another, whose flower is white, with purple coloured veines
and stripes through euery leafe, and is a lesser flower then
the other.
_Anemone tenuifolia coccinea simplex._
The single Scarlet Anemone with thin leaues.
The leaues of this Scarlet Windflower are somewhat like vnto the
former, but a little broader, and not so finely cut and diuided: the
flower consisteth of six reasonable large leaues, of an excellent
red colour, which we call a Scarlet; the bottomes of the leaues are
large and white, and the thrums or threads in the middle of a blackish
purple colour: the roote is tuberous, but consisting of thicker peeces,
somewhat like vnto the rootes of the broad leafed Anemones, but
somewhat browne and not so blacke, and most like vnto the roote of the
double Scarlet Anemone.
_Coccinea absq; vnguibus._
There is another of this kinde, whose flower is neare vnto the
same colour, but this hath no white bottomes at all in his
leaues.
_Flore holosericeo._
We haue another which hath as large a flower as any single, and
is of an Orient deepe red crimson Veluet colour.
_Sanguinea._
There is another of a deeper red colour, and is called, The
bloud red single Anemone.
_Rubra fundo luteo._
And another, whose flower is red with the bottome yellow.
_Coccinea dilutior._
Another of a perfect crimson colour, whereof some haue round
pointed leaues, and others sharpe pointed, and some a little
lighter or deeper then others.
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