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
This kinde of Stocke gilloflower differeth neyther in forme of leaues,
stalkes, nor flowers from the former, but that it oftentimes groweth
much larger and taller; so that whosoeuer shall see both these growing
together, shall scarce discerne the difference, onely it beareth
flowers, eyther white, red or purple, wholly or entire, that is, of
one colour, without mixture of other colour in them (for so much as
euer I haue obserued, or could vnderstand by others) which are eyther
single, like vnto the former, or very thicke and double, like vnto the
next that followeth; but larger, and growing with more store of flowers
on the long stalke. But this you must vnderstand withall, that those
plants that beare double flowers, doe beare no seede at all, and is
very seldome encreased by slipping or cutting, as the next kinde of
double is: but the onely way to haue double flowers any yeare, (for
this kinde dyeth euery winter, for the most part, after it hath borne
flowers, and seldome is preserued) is to saue the seedes of those
plants of this kinde that beare single flowers, for from that seede
will rise, some that will beare single, and some double flowers, which
cannot bee distinguished one from another, I meane which will be single
and which double, vntill you see them in flower, or budde at the least.
And this is the only way to preserue this kinde: but of the seed of the
former kinde was neuer known any double flowers to arise, and therefore
you must be carefull to marke this kinde from the former.
6. _Leucoium flore pleno diuersorum colorum._
Double Stocke Gillowflowers of diuers colours.
This other kinde of Stock gilloflower that beareth onely double
flowers, groweth not so great, nor spreadeth his branches so farre,
nor are his leaues so large, but is in all things smaller, and lower,
and yet is woody, or shrubby, like the former, bearing his flowers
in the like manner, many vpon a long stalke, one aboue another, and
very double, but not so large as the former double, although it grow
in fertile soyle, which are eyther white, or red, or purple wholly,
without any mixture, or else mixed with spots and stripes, as the
single flowers of the first kinde, but more variably, and not in all
places alike, neuer bearing seede, but must be encreased, only by the
cutting of the young sproutes or branches, taken in a fit season: this
kinde perisheth not, as the former double kinde doth, so as it bee
defended in the winter from the extreame frosts, but especially from
the snow falling, or at the least remaining vpon it.
7. _Leucoium satiuum luteum flore pleno._
The double yellow Stocke Gilloflower.
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