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 Cranes bill hath many large leaues, cut into fiue or
fix parts or diuisions, euen to the bottome, and iagged besides on the
edges, set vpon very long slender foote-stalkes, very like the leaues
of the wilde Crowfoot; from among which rise vp diuers stalkes with
great ioynts, somewhat reddish, set with leaues like the former: the
toppes of the stalkes are spread into many branches, whereon stand
diuers flowers, made of fiue leaues a peece, as large as any of the
wilde or field Crowfeete, round pointed, of a faire blew or watchet
colour, which being past, there doe arise such heads or bils, as other
of the Cranes bils haue: the roote is composed of many reddish strings,
spreading in the ground, from a head made of diuers red heads, which
lye oftentimes eminent aboue the ground.
3. _Geranium Batrachoides flore albo._
The white Crowfoote Cranes bill.
This Cranes bill is in leafe and flower altogether like the former, the
onely difference betweene them consisteth in the colour of the flower,
which in this is wholly white, and as large as the former: but the
roote of this hath not such red heads as the other hath.
4. _Geranium Batrachoides flore albo & cæruleo vario._
The party coloured Crowfoote Cranes bill.
The flowers of this Cranes bill are variably striped and spotted, and
sometimes diuided, the one halfe of euery leafe being white, and the
other halfe blew, sometimes with lesser or greater spots of blew in the
white leafe, very variably, and more in some years then in others, that
it is very hard to expresse all the varieties that may be obserued in
the flowers, that blow at one time. In all other parts of the plant, it
is so like vnto the former, that vntill it be in flower, the one cannot
be knowne from the other.
5. _Geranium Batrachoides alterum flore purpureo._
Purple Crowfoote Cranes bill.
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