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
The double red Rose Campion is in all respects like vnto the single red
kinde, but that this beareth double flowers, consisting of two or three
rowes of leaues at the most, which are not so large as the single, and
the whole plant is more tender, that is, more apt to perish, then any
of the single kindes.
5. _Lychnis Chalcedonica flore simplici miniato._
Single Nonesuch, or Flower of Bristow, or Constantinople.
This Campion of Constantinople hath many broad and long greene leaues,
among which rise vp sundry stiffe round hairy ioynted stalks three foot
high, with two leaues euery ioynt: the flowers stand at the toppes of
them, very many together, in a large tuft or vmbell, consisting of fiue
small long leaues, broade pointed, and notched-in in the middle, of a
bright red orenge colour, which being past, there come in their places
small hard whitish heads or seede vessels, containing blacke seede,
like vnto the seede of sweet Williams, and hauing but a small sent; the
roote is very stringie, fastening it selfe very strongly in the ground,
whereby it is much encreased.
[Sidenote: _Flore albo. Et carneo. Versicolor._]
Of the single kinde there is also two or three other sorts, differing
chiefly in the colour of the flowers. The one is pure white. Another
is of a blush colour wholly, without variation. And a third is very
variable; for at the first it is of a pale red, and after a while
groweth paler, vntill in the end it become almost fully white; and all
these diuersities of the flowers are sometimes to bee seene on one
stalke at one and the same time.
6. _Lychnis Chalcedonica flore miniato pleno._
Double Flower of Bristow, or Nonesuch.
This glorious flower being as rare as it is beautifull, is for rootes
beeing stringie, for leaues and stalkes being hairy and high, and for
the flowers growing in tufts, altogether like the first single kinde;
but herein consisteth the chiefest difference, that this beareth a
larger vmbell or tuft of flowers at the toppe of the stalke, euery
flower consisting of three or foure rowes of leaues, of a deeper orenge
colour then it, which addeth the more grace vnto it, but passeth
away without bearing seede, as most other double flowers doe, yet
recompenceth that defect with encrease from the roote.
7. _Lychnis plumaria siluestris simplex & multiplex._
The featherd wilde Campion single and double.
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