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
History
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 small Crowfoote hath three or foure winged leaues spread vpon the
ground, standing vpon long stalkes, and consisting of many small leaues
set together, spreading from the middle ribbe, euery leafe somewhat
resembling both in shape and colour the smallest and youngest leaues
of Colombines: the flowers are white, standing at the toppe of the
stalkes, made of fiue round leaues: the root hath three or foure thick,
short, and round yellowish clogs hanging at the head, like vnto the
Asphodill roote. The great Herball of Lyons, that goeth vnder the name
of _Daleschampius_, saith, that Dʳ. Myconus found it in Spaine, and
sent it vnder the name of Oenanthe; and therefore Ioannes Molineus who
is thought to haue composed that booke, set it among the vmbelliferous
plants, because the Oenanthes beare vmbels of flowers and seede, and
haue tuberous or cloggy rootes; but with what iudgement, let others
say, when they haue compared the vmbels of flowers and seede of the
Oenanthes, with the flowers and seede of this plant, and whether I haue
not more properly placed it among the _Ranunculi_ or Crowfeete, and
giuen it a denomination agreeable to his forme.
8. _Ranunculus Globosus._ The Globe Crowfoot.
This Crowfoote (which in the Northerne countries of England where it
groweth plentifully, is called Locker goulons) hath many faire, broad,
darke greene leaues next the ground, cut into fiue, sixe, or seuen
diuisions, and iagged besides at the edges; among which riseth vp a
stalke, whereon are set such like leaues as are belowe, but smaller,
diuided toward the toppe into some branches, on the which stand
seuerall large yellow flowers, alwayes folded inward, or as a close
flower neuer blowing open, as other flowers doe, consisting of eleuen
leaues for the most part, set or placed in three rowes, with many
yellow threads in the middle, standing about a greene rough head, which
in time groweth to be small knops, wherein are contained blacke seede:
the roote is composed of many blackish strings.
9. _Ranunculus pratensis flore multiplici._
The double yellow field Crowfoot.
There is little or no difference in the leaues of this double Crowfoot,
from those of the single kindes that growe in euery medowe, being large
and diuided into foure or fiue parts, and indented about the edges, but
they are somewhat smaller, and of a fresher greene: the flowers stand
on many branches, much diuided or separated, being not very great, but
very thicke and double: the roote runneth and creepeth vnder ground
like as the single doth.
10. _Ranunculus Anglicus maximus multiplex._
The Garden double yellow Crowfoot or Batchelours buttons.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account