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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

Costæus doth call this plant _Pothos_ of Theophrastus, which
        Gaza translateth _Desiderium_. Dalechampius vpon Athenæus,
        calleth it _Diosanthos_, or _Iouis flos_ of Theophrastus, who
        in his sixth Booke and seuenth Chapter reckoneth them both,
        that is, _Diosanthos_ and _Pothos_, to be Summer flowers, but
        seuerally. Dodonæus _Leoherba_, and Gesner _Leontostomium_.
        Fabius Columna in his Phytobasanos, vnto whom Clusius giueth
        the greatest approbation, referreth it to the _Isopyrum_ of
        Dioscorides. All later Writers doe generally call it, eyther
        _Aquileia_, _Aquilina_, or _Aquilegia_; and we in English,
        generally (I thinke) through the whole Countrey, Colombines.
        Some doe call the _Aquilegia rosea_, _Aquilegia stellata_, The
        starre Colombine; because the leaues of the flowers doe stand
        so directly one by another, besides the doublenesse, that they
        somewhat represent eyther a Rose or a Starre, and thereupon
        they giue it the name eyther of a Starre or Rose.


[Illustration:

   1 _Aquilegia simplex._ The single Colombine.
   2 _Aquilegia flore multiplici._ The double Colombine.
   3 _Aquilegia versicolor._ The party coloured Colombine.
   4 _Aquilegia inuersis corniculis._ The double inuerted Colombine.
   5 _Aquilegia Rosea siue Stellata._ The Rose or the Starre Colombine.
   6 _Thalictrum Hispanicum album._ White Spanish tufts.
]


        The Vertues.

        Some in Spaine, as Camerarius saith, vse to eate a peece of
        the roote hereof fasting, many dayes together, to helpe them
        that are troubled with the stone in the kidneyes. Others vse
        the decoction, of both herbe and roote in wine, with a little
        Ambargrise, against those kinds of swounings, which the Greekes
        call ἀδυναμία. The seede is vsed for the iaundise, and other
        obstructions of the liuer. Clusius writeth from the experience
        of Franciscus Rapard, a chiefe Physician of Bruges in Flanders,
        that the seede beaten and drunke is effectuall to women in
        trauell of childe, to procure a speedy deliuerie, and aduiseth
        a second draught thereof should be taken if the first succeede
        not sufficiently.




CHAP. XLVII.

_Thalictrum Hispanicum._   Spanish Tufts, Or Tufted Columbines.


From among the diuersities of this plant, I haue selected out two sorts
for this my garden, as hauing more beautie then all the rest; leauing
the other to be entreated of, where all in generall may be included. I
haue in this place inserted them, for the likenesse of the leaues only,
being in no other part correspondent, and in a Chapter by themselues,
as it is most fit.


_Thalictrum Hispanicum album._   White Spanish tufted Colombines.

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