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 double Anemone also is very like the last described Anemone, but
that in the middle of the purple thrums, there thrusteth forth a tuft
of threads or leaues of a more light crimson colour.
And thus much for the kindes of Anemones or Windflowers, so farre forth
as haue hitherto come to our knowledge; yet I doubt not, but that more
varieties haue beene elsewhere collected, and will be also in our
Countrey daily and yearly obserued by diuers, that raise them vp from
sowing the seede, wherein lyeth a pretty art, not yet familiarly knowne
to our Nation, although it be very frequent in the Lowe-Countries,
where their industry hath bred and nourished vp such diuersities and
varieties, that they haue valued some Anemones at such high rates,
as most would wonder at, and none of our Nation would purchase, as I
thinke. And I doubt not, if wee would be as curious as they, but that
both our ayre and soyle would produce as great variety, as euer hath
been seene in the Lowe-Countries; which to procure, if any of our
Nation will take so much paines in sowing the seedes of Anemones, as
diuers haue done of Tulipas: I will set them downe the best directions
for that purpose that I haue learned, or could by much search and
tryall attaine vnto; yet I must let them vnderstand thus much also,
that there is not so great variety of double flowers raised from the
seede of the thin leafed Anemones, as from the broad leafed ones.
First therefore (as I said before) concerning Tulipas, there is some
speciall choice to be made of such flowers, whose seed is fittest to be
taken. Of the _Latifolias_, the double Orenge tawney seede being sowne,
yeeldeth pretty varieties, but the purples, and reds, or crimsons,
either _Latifolias_ or _Tenuifolias_, yeeld small variety, but such as
draw nearest to their originall, although some be a little deeper or
lighter then others. But the light colours be they which are the chiefe
for choice, as white, ash-colour, blush or carnation, light orenge,
simple or party coloured, single or double, if they beare seede, which
must bee carefully gathered, and that not before it bee thorough
ripe, which you shall know by the head; for when the seede with the
wollinesse beginneth to rise a little of it selfe at the lower end, it
must bee then quickly gathered, lest the winde carry it all away. After
it is thus carefully gathered, it must be laid to dry for a weeke or
more, which then being gently rubbed with a little dry sand or earth,
will cause the seede to be somewhat better separated, although not
thoroughly from the woollinesse or downe that compasseth it.
Within a moneth at the most after the seede is thus gathered and
prepared, it must be sowne; for by that meanes you shall gaine a yeare
in the growing, ouer that you should doe if you sowed it in the next
Spring.
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