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 kinde of Beares eare hath greene leaues, very like vnto the last
described, and snipt in the like manner about the edges, but in this
it differeth, that his leaues do turne or fold themselues a little
backwards: the flowers are of a yellowish greene colour, more closed
then the former, hauing purplish edges, especially after they haue
stood blowne some time, and haue little or none at the first opening:
these haue no circles at all in them.
Many other varieties are to be found, with those that are curious
conseruers of these delights of nature, either naturally growing on the
mountaines in seuerall places, from whence they (being searched out by
diuers) haue been taken and brought, or else raised from the seede of
some of them, as it is more probable: for seuerall varieties haue beene
obserued (and no doubt many of these before specified) to bee gotten
by sowing of the seedes, euery yeare lightly shewing a diuersity, not
obserued before, either in the leafe, diuers from that from whence it
was taken, or in the flowers. I haue onely set downe those that haue
come vnder mine owne view, and not any by relation, euen as I doe with
all or most of the things contained in this worke.
The Place.
Many of these goodly plants growe naturally on mountaines,
especially the Alpes, in diuers places; for some kindes that
growe in some places, doe not in others, but farre distant one
from the other. There hath likewise some beene found on the
Pyrenæan mountaines, but that kinde with the blew flower and
Borage leafe, hath beene gathered on the mountaines in Spaine,
and on the Pyrenæans next vnto Spaine.
The Time.
They all flower in Aprill and May, and the seede is ripe in
the end of Iune, or beginning of Iuly, and sometimes they will
flower againe in the end of Summer, or in Autumne, if the yeare
proue temperate, moist, and rainie.
The Names.
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