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
Dogges teeth, and some of the small early Leucoium or Bulbous Violet,
all planted in some proportion as neare one vnto another as is fit for
them, will giue such a grace to the Garden, that the place will seeme
like a peece of tapestry of many glorious colours, to encrease euery
ones delight: Or else many of one sort together, as the blew, white,
and blush Grape flowers in the same manner intermingled, doe make a
maruellous delectable shew, especially because all of them rise almost
to an equall height, which causeth the greater grace, as well neare
hand as farre of. The like order may be kept with many other things,
as the Hepatica, white, blew, purple, and red set or sowne together,
will make many to beleeue that one roote doth beare all those colours:
But aboue and beyond all others, the Tulipas may be so matched, one
colour answering and setting of another, that the place where they
stand may resemble a peece of curious needle-worke, or peece of
painting; and I haue knowne in a Garden, the Master as much commended
for this artificiall forme in placing the colours of Tulipas, as for
the goodnesse of his flowers, or any other thing. The diuers sorts and
colours of Anemones or Winde-flowers may be so ordered likewise, which
are very beautifull, to haue the seuerall varieties planted one neare
vnto another, that their seuerall colours appearing in one place will
be a very great grace in a Garden, or if they be dispersed among the
other sorts of flowers, they will make a glorious shew. Another order
in planting you may obserue; which is this, That those plants that
grow low, as the Aconitum Hyemale or Winter-wolues bane, the Vernall
Crocus or Saffron-flowers of diuers sorts, the little early Leucoium
or Bulbous Violet, and some such other as rise not vp high, as also
some Anemones may be very well placed somewhat neare or about your
Martagons, Lillies, or Crownes Imperiall, both because these little
plants will flower earlier than they, and so will bee gone and past,
before the other greater plants will rise vp to any height to hinder
them; which is a way may well be admitted in those Gardens that are
small, to saue roome, and to place things to the most aduantage. Thus
hauing shewed you diuers wayes and orders how to plant your rootes,
that your flowers may giue the greater grace in the Garden, let mee
shew you likewise how to set these kindes of rootes into the ground;
for many know not well eyther which end to set vpwards or downewards,
nor yet to what depth they should be placed in the ground. Daffodils if
they be great rootes, will require (as must bee obserued in all other
great plants) to bee planted somewhat deeper than the smaller of the
same kinde as also that the tops or heads of the rootes be about two
or three fingers breadth hid vnder ground. The Tulipas likewise if you
set them deepe, they will be the safer from frosts if your ground be
cold, which will also cause them to be a little later before they be
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