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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

I must needes insert this small plant, to finish this part of the
Campions, whereunto it belongeth, being a pretty toye to furnish and
decke out a Garden. It springeth vp (if it haue beene once sowne and
suffered to shed) in the later end of the yeare most commonly, or else
in the Spring with fiue or six small leaues, very like vnto the leaues
of Pinkes, and of the same grayish colour, but a little broader and
shorter, and when it beginneth to shoote vp for flower, it beareth
smaller leaues on the clammy or viscous stalkes (fit to hold any small
thing that lighteth on it); being broad at the bottome compassing them,
and standing two at a ioynt one against another: the toppes of the
stalkes are diuersly branched into seuerall parts, euery branch hauing
diuers small red flowers, not notched, but smooth, standing out of
small, long, round, stript huskes, which after the flowers are past,
containe small grayish seede: the roote is small, and perisheth after
it hath giuen seede; but riseth (as is before said) of its owne seede,
if it be suffered to shed.


[Illustration:

   1 _Lychnis Coronaria simplex._ Single Rose Campion.
   2 _Lychnis Coronaria rubra multiplex._ The double red Rose Campion.
   3 _Lychnis Chalcedonica simplex._ Single None such, or flower of
        Bristow.
   4 _Lychnis Chalcedonica flore pleno._ Double None such, or flower of
        Bristow.
   5 _Lychnis plumaria multiplex._ Pleasant in sight.
   6 _Lychnis siluestris flore pleno rubro._ Red Batchelours Buttons.
   7 _Lychnis siluestris flore pleno albo._ White Batchelours Buttons.
   8 _Muscipula Lobelij._ Lobels Catch Flie.
]


        The Place.

        The Rose Campions, Flowers of Bristow, or Nonesuch, the Bassil
        Campion, and the Catch Flie, haue been sent vs from beyond
        the Seas, and are onely noursed vp in Gardens with vs; the
        other Campions that are double, haue been naturally so found
        double wilde (for no art or industry of man, that euer I could
        be assured of to be true, be it by neuer so many repetitions of
        transplantations, and planeticall obseruations (as I haue said
        in the beginning of this worke) could bring any flower, single
        by nature, to become double, notwithstanding many affirmations
        to that purpose, but whatsoeuer hath been found wilde to be
        double, nature her selfe, and not art hath so produced it) and
        being brought into Gardens, are there encreased by slipping,
        and parting the roote, because they giue no seede.


        The Time.

        All of them doe flower in the Summer, yet none before May.


        The Names.

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