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 differeth not from the first Oxelip in the smalnesse of the
greene leaues, but in the flower, which standing many together on a
reasonable high stalke, and being very small and yellow, scarce opening
themselues or layde abroade as it, hath a greene huske vnder each
flower, but diuided into sixe seuerall small long peeces.
16. _Paralysis flore fatuo._
The Franticke, or Foolish Cowslip: Or Iacke an apes on horse backe.
Wee haue in our gardens another kinde, not much differing in leaues
from the former Cowslip, and is called Fantasticke or Foolish, because
it beareth at the toppe of the stalke a bush or tuft of small long
greene leaues, with some yellow leaues, as it were peeces of flowers
broken, and standing among the greene leaues. And sometimes some
stalkes among those greene leaues at the toppe (which are a little
larger then when it hath but broken peeces of flowers) doe carry whole
flowers in huskes like the single kinde.
17. _Paralysis minor flore rubro._ Red Birds eyes.
This little Cowslippe (which will hardly endure in our gardens, for
all the care and industrie we can vse to keepe it) hath all the
Winter long, and vntill the Spring begin to come on, his leaues so
closed together, that it seemeth a small white head of leaues, which
afterwards opening it selfe, spreadeth round vpon the ground, and
hath small long and narrow leaues, snipt about the edges, of a pale
greene colour on the vpperside, & very white or mealy vnderneath,
among these leaues rise vp one or two stalks, small & hoary, halfe a
foot high, bearing at the top a bush or tuft of much smaller flowers,
standing vpon short foot stalkes, somewhat like vnto Cowslips, but more
like vnto the Beares eares, of a fine reddish purple colour, in some
deeper, in others paler, with a yellowish circle in the bottomes of the
flowers, like vnto many of the Beares eares, of a faint or small sent:
the seede is smaller than in any of the former kindes, and so are the
rootes likewise, being small, white and threddy.
18. _Paralysis minor flore albo._ White Birds eyes.
This kinde differeth very little or nothing from the former, sauing
that it seemeth a little larger both in leafe and flower, and that the
flowers hereof are wholly white, without any great appearance of any
circle in the bottome of them, vnlesse it be well obserued, or at least
being nothing so conspicuous, as in the former.
[Sidenote: _Flore geminato._]
These two kindes haue sometimes, but very seldome, from among the
middle of the flowers on the stalke, sent out another small stalke,
bearing flowers thereon likewise.
19. _Paralysis hortensis flore pleno._ Double Paigles or Cowslips.
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