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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 & 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

Name: 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
Author: Parkinson, John

Parkinson, John

Gardening -- Early works to 1800; Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800

3. _Primula veris flore viridante & albo simplici._
The single greene and white Primrose.

The leaues of this differ in a manner nothing from the former, neither
doth the flower but only in this, that out of the large yellowish green
huskes, which contain the flowers of the former, there commeth forth
out of the middle of each of them either a small peece of a whitish
flower, or else a larger, sometimes making vp a whole flower, like an
ordinary Primrose.


[Illustration:

   1 _Primula veris flore albo._ The white Primrose.
   2 _Primula veris flore viridi & albo simplici._ The green and white
        Primrose.
   3 _Primula veris flore viridi duplici._ The double green Primrose.
   4 _Primula veris Hesketi._ Master Heskets double Primrose.
   5 _Primula veris flore pleno vulgaris._ The ordinary double
        Primrose.
   6 _Paralysis veris flore viridante simplici._ The single green
        Cowslip.
   7 _Paralysis flore geminato odorato._ Double Cowslips or hose in
        hose.
   8 _Paralysis inodora flore geminato._ Double Oxelips hose in hose.
   9 _Paralysis hortensis flore & calice crispo._ Curld Cowslips or
        Gaskins.
  10 _Paralysis minor angustifolia flore rubro._ Red Birds eyen.
  11 _Paralysis hortensis flore pleno vulgaris._ Double Paigles.
  12 _Paralysis fatuo._ The foolish Cowslip or Iacke an Apes on horse
        backe.
  13 _Paralysis flore viridi roseo calamistrato._ The double greene
        feathered Cowslip.
]


4. _Primula veris flore viridi duplici._   The double greene Primrose.

This double Primrose is in his leaues so like the former single greene
kindes, that the one cannot be knowne from the other vntill it come
to flower, and then it beareth vpon euery stalke a double green flower,
of a little deeper green colour then the flower of the former single
kinde consisting but of two rowes of short leaues most vsually, and
both of an equall height aboue the huske, abiding a pretty time in
flower, especially if it stand in any shadowed place, or where the Sun
may come but a while vnto it.


5. _Primula veris Hesketi flore multiplici separatim diviso._
Master Heskets double Primrose.

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