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
both single and double, of many and sundry colours, yeeld out their
flowers like Roses on their tall branches, like Trees, to sute you with
flowers, when almost you haue no other to grace out your Garden: the
single and double doe both yeeld seed, and yet doe after their seeding
abide many yeares. Thus haue I shewed you most of the English, as well
as (I did before) the Outlandish flowers that are fit to furnish the
knots, trailes, beds, and borders of this Garden. Roses onely, as I
said before, I reserve to circle or encompasse all the rest, because
that for the most part they are planted in the outer borders or the
quarters, and sometimes by themselues in the middle of long beds, the
sorts or kindes whereof are many, as they are declared in their proper
place: but the White Rose, the Red, and the Damaske, are the most
ancient Standards in England, and therefore accounted naturall.
CHAP. VI.
_The order and manner to plant and replant all the sorts of Out-landish
flowers spoken of before, as well those with bulbous rootes, as others
with stringie rootes._
Whereas it is the vsuall custome of most in this Land, to turne vp
their Gardens, and to plant them againe in the Spring of the yeare,
which is the best time that may bee chosen for all English flowers,
yet it is not so for your Out-landish flowers. And herein indeede hath
beene not onely the errour of a great many to hinder their rootes from
bearing out their flowers as they should, but also to hinder many to
take delight in them, because as they say they will not thriue and
prosper with them, when as the whole fault is in the want of knowledge
of the fit and conuenient time wherein they should bee planted. And
because our English Gardiners are all or the most of them vtterly
ignorant in the ordering of these Out-landish flowers, as not being
trained vp to know them, I haue here taken vpon mee the forme of a new
Gardiner, to giue instructions to those that will take pleasure in
them, that they may be the better enabled with these helpes I shall
shew them, both to know how they should be ordered, and to direct
their Gardiners that are ignorant thereof, rightly to dispose them
according to their naturall qualities. And I doe wish all Gentlemen
and Gentlewomen, whom it may concerne for their owne good, to bee as
carefull whom they trust with the planting and replanting of these
fine flowers, as they would be with so many Iewels; for the rootes of
many of them being small, and of great value, may be soone conueyed
away, and a cleanly tale faire told, that such a roote is rotten, or
perished in the ground if none be seen where it should be, or else that
the flower hath changed his colour, when it hath been taken away, or
a counterfeit one hath beene put in the place thereof; and thus many
haue been deceiued of their daintiest flowers, without remedy or true
knowledge of the defect. You shall therefore, if you will take the
right course that is proper for these kindes of flowers, not set or
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