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 spotted Nauelwort, as many doe call it, hath many thicke small
leaues, not so broad as long, of a whitish greene colour, lying on the
ground in circles, after the manner of the heads of Houseleeke, and
dented about the edges; from the middle whereof sometimes (for it doth
not flower euery yeare in many places) ariseth vp a stalke, scarce a
foote high, beset with such like leaues as are belowe, but somewhat
longer: from the middle of the stalke vp to the top it brancheth forth
diuersly, with a leafe at euery ioynt, bearing three or foure flowers
on euery branch, consisting of fiue white leaues, spotted with small
red spots, like vnto the spotted Sanicle, but with fewer and greater
spots, hauing a yellowish circle or eye in the bottome of euery flower,
and many whitish threads with yellowish tips in it: the seede is small
and blacke, contained in small round heads: the roote is small, long,
and threadie, shooting out such heads of leaues, which abide all the
Winter, those that beare flower perishing.
_Cotyledon altera minor._ Small dented Nauelwort.
There is another like vnto that before described in most things, the
differences be these: It hath shorter leaues then the former, and
dented about the edges in the like manner: the flowers hereof are
white, but greater, made of six leaues, and most vsually without any
spots at all in them, some are seene to haue spots also: the heads or
seede vessels are more cornered then the former.
_Cotyledon altera flore rubro stellato._ Small red flowred Nauelwort.
This hath also many heads of leaues, but more open, which are longer,
greener, and sharper pointed then eyther of the former, somewhat
reddish also, and not dented about the edges, but yet a little rough
in handling: the stalke ariseth from among the leaues, being somewhat
reddish, and the leaues thereon are reddish pointed, diuided at the
toppe into many branches, with diuers flowers thereon, made of twelue
small long leaues, standing like a starre, of a reddish purple colour,
with many threads therein, set about the middle head, which is diuided
at the toppe into many small ends, like pods or hornes, containing
therein very small seede: the roote is small like the former.
_Sedum serratum flore rubente maculato._ The Princes Feather.
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