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 Crowfoote of Candy, hath the greatest and broadest leaues of all
the sorts of Crowfeete, being almost round, and without any great
diuisions, but onely a few notches about the edges here and there,
as large or larger sometimes then the palme of a mans hand; among
which riseth vp the stalke, not very high when it doth first flower,
but afterwards, as the other flowers doe open themselues, the stalke
groweth to be a foote and a halfe high, or thereabouts, hauing some
leaues on it, deeply cut in or diuided, and bearing many faire yellow
flowers, consisting of fiue leaues a peece, being somewhat whitish in
the middle, when the flower hath stood blowne a little time: the roote
is composed of a number of small kernelly knobs, or long graines, set
thicke together. This flowreth very early, being vsually in flower
before the end of March, and oftentimes about the middle thereof.
14. _Ranunculus Creticus albus._ The white Candy Crowfoote.
The leaues of this Crowfoote are very like vnto the leaues of the red
Crowfoote of Tripoli or Asia, hereafter set downe, being somewhat
broad and indented about the edges, some of the leaues being also cut
in or gashed, thereby making it as it were three diuisions, of a pale
greene colour, with many white spots in them: the stalke riseth vp a
foote high, with some leaues on it, more diuided then the lower, and
diuided at the toppe into two and sometimes into three branches, each
of them bearing a faire snow white flower, somewhat large, included at
the first in a brownish huske or cup of leaues, which afterwards stand
vnder the flowers, consisting of fiue white large round pointed leaues,
in the middle whereof is set many blackish purple thrums, compassing
a small long greene head, composed of many scales or chaffie whitish
huskes, when they are ripe, which are the seede, but vnprofitable in
all that euer I could obserue: the rootes are many small graines or
kernels, set together as in the former, and much about the same colour,
that is, of a darke or duskie grayish colour, but much smaller.
[Sidenote: _Alba purpureis oris & venis._]
There is another of this kinde, whose flowers haue purple edges, and
sometimes some veines of the same purple in the leaues of the flowers,
not differing in any other thing from the former.
[Sidenote: _Alba oris rubris._]
And another, whose edges of the flowers are of a bright red colour.
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