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
1 _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum vulgare._ Common Wall-flowers.
2 _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum maius simplex._ The great single
Wall-flower.
3 _Keiri siue Leucoium luteum flore pleno vulgare._ Ordinary double
Wall-flowers.
4 _Keiri maius flore pleno ferrugineo._ The great double red
Wall-flower.
5 _Leucoium sativum simplex._ Single Stocke Gilloflowers.
6 _Leucoium sativum simplex flore striato._ Single stript
Stocke-Gilloflowers.
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1. _Leucoium simplex sativum diversorum colorum._
Garden Stocke-Gilloflowers single of diuers colours.
These single Stocke-Gilloflowers, although they differ in the colour of
their flowers, yet are in leafe and manner of growing, one so like
vnto another, that vntill they come to flower, the one cannot be well
knowne that beareth red flowers, from another that beareth purple; and
therefore one description of the plant shall serue, with a declaration
of the sundry colours of the flowers. It riseth vp with round whitish
woody stalkes, two, three, or foure foot high, whereon are set many
long, and not very broad, soft, and whitish or grayish greene leaues,
somewhat round pointed, and parted into diuers branches, at the toppes
whereof grow many flowers, one aboue another, smelling very sweet,
consisting of foure small, long, and round pointed leaues, standing in
small long huskes, which turne into long and flat pods, sometimes halfe
a foote long, wherein is contained flat, round, reddish seedes, with
grayish ringes or circles about them, lying flat all along the middle
rib of the pod on both sides: the roote is long, white, and woody,
spreading diuers wayes. There is great variety in the colours of the
flowers: for some are wholly of a pure white colour, others of a most
excellent crimson red colour, others againe of a faire red colour,
but not so bright or liuely as the other, some also of a purplish or
violet colour, without any spot, marke, or line in them at all. There
are againe of all these colours, mixed very variably, as white mixed
with small or great spottes, strakes or lines of pure or bright red, or
darke red, and white with purple spots and lines; and of eyther of them
whose flowers are almost halfe white, and halfe red, or halfe white,
and halfe purple. The red of both sorts, and the purple also, in the
like manner spotted, striped, and marked with white, differing neyther
in forme, nor substance, in any other point.
2. _Leucoium satiuum albido luteum simplex._
The single pale yellow Stocke-Gilloflower.
There is very little difference in this kind from the former, for the
manner of growing, or forme of leaues or flower. Only this hath greener
leaues, and pale yellow almost white flowers, in all other things
alike: this is of no great regard, but only for rarity, and diuersity
from the rest.
3. _Leucoium Melancholicum._ The Melancholick Gentleman.
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