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
The leaues of this Cranes bill are in all points like the last
described, as well in the forme and diuisions as colour of the leaues,
being of a yellowish greene colour, but larger and stronger by much:
the stalkes of this rise much higher, and are ioynted or knobbed with
reddish knees or ioynts, on the tops whereof stand not many although
large flowers, consisting of fiue leaues a peece, each whereof is round
at the end, and a little snipt round about, and doe bend or turne
themselues backe to stalkewards, making the middle to be highest or
most eminent; the colour of the flower is of a darke or deepe blackish
purple, the bottome of euery leafe being whiter than the rest; it hath
also a middle pointell standing out, which afterwards bring forth seede
like vnto others of his kinde: the roote consisteth of diuers great
strings, ioyned to a knobby head.
8. _Geranium Hematodes._ The red Rose Cranes bill.
This Cranes bill hath diuers leaues spread vpon the ground, very much
cut in or diuided into many parts, and each of them againe slit or cut
into two or three peeces, standing vpon slender long foote-stalkes,
of a faire greene colour all the Spring and Summer, but reddish in
Autumne: among these leaues spring vp slender and weake stalkes, beset
at euery ioynt (which is somewhat reddish) with two leaues for the most
part, like vnto the lower: the flowers grow seuerally on the toppe of
the stalkes, and not many together in bunches or branches, as in all
other Cranes bils, euery flower being as large as a single Rose Campion
flower, consisting of fiue large leaues, of a deeper red colour then
in any other Cranes bill at the first opening, and will change more
blewish afterwards: when the flower is past, there doth arise such like
beakes as are in others of the same kinde, but small: the roote is
hard, long, and thicke, with diuers branches spreading from it, of a
reddish yellow colour on the outside, and whitish within, which abideth
and perisheth not, but shooteth forth some new greene leaues, which
abide all the Winter, although those that turne red doe fall away.
_Geranium Creticum._ Candy Cranes bill.
Candy Cranes bill beareth long and tender stalkes, whereon growe diuers
broad and long leaues, cut in or iagged on the edges: the toppes of
the stalkes are branched into many flowers, made of fiue leaues of a
reasonable bignesse, and of a faire blew or watchet colour, with a
purplish pointell in the middle, which being past, there follow beake
heads like other Cranes bils, but greater, containing larger, greater,
and sharper pointed seede, able to pierce the skinne, if one be not
warie of it: the roote is white and long, with some fibres at it, and
perisheth when it hath perfected his seede, and will spring of it owne
sowing many times, if the Winter be not too sharpe, otherwise (being
annuall) it must be sowne in the Spring of the yeare.
The Place.
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