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
Master Heskets double Primrose is very like vnto the small double
Primrose, both in leafe, roote, and height of growing, the stalke not
rising much higher then it, but bearing flowers in a farre different
manner; for this beareth not only single flowers vpon seuerall stalkes,
but sometimes two or three single flowers vpon one stalk, and also at
the same time a bigger stalke, and somewhat higher, hauing one greene
huske at the toppe thereof, sometimes broken on the one side, and
sometimes whole, in the middle whereof standeth sometimes diuers single
flowers, thrust together, euery flower to be seene in his proper forme,
and sometimes there appeare with some whole flowers others that are but
parts of flowers, as if the flowers were broken in peeces, and thrust
into one huske, the leaues of the flowers (being of a white or pale
Primrose Colour, but a little deeper) seldome rising aboue the height
of the very huske it selfe; and sometimes, as I haue obserued in this
plant, it will haue vpon the same stalke, that beareth such flowers
as I haue here described vnto you, a small flower or two, making the
stalke seeme branched into many flowers, whereby you may perceiue, that
it will vary into many formes, not abiding constant in any yeare, as
all the other sorts doe.
6. _Primula hortensis flore pleno vulgaris._
The ordinary double Primrose.
The leaues of this Primrose are very large, and like vnto the single
kind, but somewhat larger, because it growth in gardens: the flowers
doe stand euery one seuerally vpon slender long footestalkes, as the
single kinde doth, in greenish huskes of a pale yellow colour, like
vnto the field Primrose, but very thicke and double, and of the same
sweete sent with them.
7. _Primula veris flore duplici._ The small double Primrose.
This Primrose is both in leafe, roote, and flower, altogether like
vnto the last double Primrose, but that it is smaller in all things;
for the flower riseth not aboue two or three fingers high, and but
twice double, that is, with two rowes of leaues, yet of the very same
Primrose colour that the former is of.
8. _Paralysis vulgaris pratensis flore flauo simplici odorato._
The Common field Cowslip.
The common fielde Cowslip I might well forbeare to set downe, being
so plentifull in the fields: but because many take delight in it, and
plant it in their gardens, I will giue you the description of it here.
It hath diuers green leaues, very like vnto the wilde Primrose, but
shorter, rounder, stiffer, rougher, more crumpled about the edges, and
of a sadder greene colour, euery one standing vpon his stalke, which
is an inch or two long: among the leaues rise vp diuers round stalkes,
a foote or more high, bearing at the toppe many faire yellow single
flowers, with spots of a deeper yellow, at the bottome of each leafe,
smelling very sweete. The rootes are like to the other Primroses,
hauing many fibres annexed to the great roote.
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