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 first kindes are called _Lychnides satiuæ_, and
_coronariæ_, in English generally Rose Campions. The next is
called _Lychnis Chalcedonica_, and _Byzantina_; in English,
of some Nonesuch, and of others Flower of Bristow, and after
the Latine, Flower of Constantinople, because it is thought
the seede was first brought from thence; but from whence the
double of this kinde came, we cannot tell. The names of the
others of this kinde, both single and double, are set downe
with their descriptions. The feathered Campions are called
_Armoraria pratensis_, and _Flos Cuculi_, and of Clusius and
others thought to be _Odontitis Plinij_. Some call them in
English Crowflowers, and Cuckowe-Flowers; and some call the
double hereof, The faire Maide of France. The Bassil Campions
were sent ouer among many other seedes out of Italy, by the
name of _Ocimoides arborea semper virens_. _Arborea_, because
the stalke is more wooddy and durable then other Campions: And
_semper virens_, because the leaues abide greene Winter and
Summer. Clusius calleth it _Lychnis semper virens_, because
it is certainly a Campion. The last is diuersly called of
Authors; Lobel calleth it _Muscipula_: Others _Armoraria
altera_: Dodonæus _Armerius flos quartus_. Clusius _Lychnis
siluestris altera_, in his Spanish obseruations, and _prima_
in his History of plants, and saith, the learned of Salmantica
in Spaine called it, _Ben rubrum_, as Lobel saith, they of
Mompelier doe also: and by that name I receiued it first out
of Italy. It hath the name of Catch Flie, of _Muscipula_ the
Latine word, because the stalkes in the hot Summer dayes haue a
certaine viscous or clammy humour vpon them, whereby it easily
holdeth (as I said before) whatsoeuer small thing, as Flies,
&c. lighteth vpon it.
The Vertues.
We know none in these dayes, that putteth any of these to any
Physicall vse, although some haue in former times.
CHAP. XXXIX.
_Keiri siue Leucoium luteum._ Wall-flowers, or Wall Gilloflowers.
There are two sorts of Wall-flowers, the one single, the other double,
and of each of them there is likewise some differences, as shall be
shewed in their description.
1. _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum simplex vulgare._
Common single Wall-flowers.
The common single Wall-flower which groweth wilde abroad, and yet is
brought into Gardens, hath sundry small, narrow, long, and darke greene
leaues, set without order vpon small round whitish wooddy stalkes,
which beare at the tops diuers single yellow flowers one aboue another,
euery one hauing foure leaues a peece, and of a very sweete sent: after
which come long pods, containing reddish seede: the roote is white,
hard and thready.
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