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
whence the leaues and flowers will spring, and all others that keepe
their greene leaues, are to bee planted in the same manner that other
herbes and flower-plants are accustomed to be. But yet for the better
thriuing of the stringie rooted plants, when you will plant them, let
me informe you of the best way of planting, and the most sure to cause
any plant to comprehend in the ground without failing, and is no common
way with any Gardiner in this Kingdome, that euer I heard or knew,
which is thus: Presuming that the stringie rooted plant is fresh and
not old gathered, and a plant that being remoued will grow againe, make
a hole in the ground large enough where you meane to set this roote,
and raise the earth within the hole a little higher in the middle then
on the sides, and set the roote thereon, spreading the strings all
abroad about the middle, that they may as it were couer the middle, and
then put the earth gently round about it, pressing it a little close,
and afterwards water it well, if it be in Summer, or in a dry time, or
otherwise moderately: thus shall euery seuerall string of the roote
haue earth enough to cause it to shoote forth, and thereby to encrease
farre better than by the vsuall way, which is without any great care
and respect to thrust the rootes together into the ground. Diuers other
flower plants are but annuall, to bee new sowne euery yeare; as the
Maruaile of the world, the Indian Cresses, or yellow Larkes heeles,
the Flower of the Sunne, and diuers others: they therefore that will
take pleasure in them, that they may enioy their flowers the earlier
in the yeare, and thereby haue ripe seede of them while warme weather
lasteth, must nurse vp their seedes in a bed of hot dung, as Melons and
Cowcumbers are, but your bed must be prouided earlier for these seeds,
than for Melons, &c. that they may haue the more comfort of the Summer,
which are to be carefully tended after they are transplanted from the
hotbed, and couered with straw from colds, whereby you shall not faile
to gaine ripe seed euery yeare, which otherwise if you should misse
of a very kindly & hot Summer, you should neuer haue. Some of these
seedes neede likewise to be transplanted from the bed of dung vnder a
warme wall, as the Flower of the Sunne, and the Maruaile of the world,
and some others, and that for a while after their transplanting, as
also in the heate of Summer, you water them at the roote with water
that hath stood a day or two in the Sunne, hauing first laid a round
wispe of hay or such other thing round about the roote, that so all
helpes may further their giuing of ripe seede. One or two rules more
I will giue you concerning these dainty flowers, the first whereof
is this, That you shall not bee carefull to water any of your bulbous
or tuberous rooted plants at any time; for they all of them do better
prosper in a dry ground than in a wet, onely all sorts of tuberous
rooted Flowerdeluces vpon their remouall had neede of a little water,
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