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
2. _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum simplex maius._
The great single Wall-flower.
There is another sort of single Wall-flower, whose leaues as well as
flowers are much larger then the former: the leaues being of a darker
and shining greene colour, and the flowers of a very deepe gold yellow
colour, and vsually broader then a twentie shilling peece of gold can
couer: the spike or toppe of flowers also much longer, and abiding
longer in flower, and much sweeter likewise in sent: the pods for seede
are thicker and shorter, with a small point at the end: this is slower
to encrease into branches, as also to be encreased by the branches,
and more tender to be preserued; for the hard frosts doe cause it to
perish, if it be not defended from them.
3. _Keiri simplex flore albo._ White Wall-flower.
This Wall-flower hath his leaues as greene as the great kinde, but
nothing so large: the flowers stand at the toppe, but not in so long
a spike, and consisteth of foure leaues, of a very white colour, not
much larger then the common kinde, and of a faint or weaker sent: the
pods are nothing so great as the former great one: this is more easie
to be propagated and encreased also, but yet will require some care in
defending it from the colds of the Winter.
4. _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum vulgare flore pleno._
Common double Wall-flowers.
This ordinary double Wall-flower is in leaues and stalke very like vnto
the first single kinde, but that the leaues hereof are not of so deepe
a greene colour: the flowers stand at the top of the stalkes one aboue
another, as it were a long spike, which flower by degrees, the lowest
first, and so vpwards, by which it is a long time in flowring, and is
very double, of a gold yellow colour, and very sweete.
5. _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum alterum flore pleno._
Pale double Wall-flowers.
Wee haue another sort of this kinde of double Wall-flower, whose double
flowers stand not spike-fashion as the former, but more open spread,
and doe all of them blowe open at one time almost, and not by degrees
as the other doth, and is of a paler yellow colour, not differing in
any thing else, except that the greene leaues hereof are of a little
paler greene then it.
6. _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum maius flore pleno ferrugineo._
Double red Wall-flowers.
We haue also another sort of double Wall-flower, whose leaues are as
greene, and almost as large as the great single yellow kinde, or full
as bigge as the leaues of the white Wall-flower: the flowers hereof are
not much larger then the ordinary, but are of a darker yellow colour
then the great single kinde, and of a more brownish or red colour on
the vnderside of the leaues, and is as it were striped.
7. _Keiri siue Leucoium maximum luteum flore pleno._
The greatest double yellow Wall-flower.
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