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
I intend in this place onely to giue you briefly, the names of some of
the chiefest of these Out-landish flowers, according to the seuerall
moneths of the yeare wherein they flower, that euery one seeing what
sorts of flowers euery moneth yeeldeth, may take of them which they
like best. I begin with Ianuary, as the first moneth of the yeare,
wherein if the frosts be not extreme, you shall haue these flowers of
plants; the Christmas flower or Helleborus niger verus, Winter wolues
bane or Aconitum hyemale, Hepatica or Noble Liuer wort blew and red,
and of shrubbes, the Laurus Tinus or Wilde Bay tree, and Mesereon or
the dwarfe Bay: but because Ianuarie is oftentimes too deepe in frosts
and snow, I therefore referre the Hepaticas vnto the moneth following,
which is February, wherein the weather beginneth to be a little
milder, and then they will flower much better, as also diuers sorts of
Crocus or Saffron flower will appeare, the little early Summer foole
or Leucoium bulbosum, and towards the latter end thereof the Vernall
Colchicum, the Dogges tooth Violet or Dens Caninus, and some Anemones,
both single and double, which in some places will flower all the Winter
long. March will yeeld more varieties; for besides that it holdeth some
of the flowers of the former moneth, it will yeeld you both the double
blew Hepatica, and the white and the blush single: then also you shall
haue diuers other sorts of Crocus or Saffron flowers, Double yellow
Daffodils, Orientall Iacinths and others, the Crowne Imperiall, diuers
sorts of early Tulipas, some sorts of French Cowslips, both tawney,
murry, yellow and blush, the early Fritillaria or checkered Daffodill,
and some other sorts of early Daffodils, and many sorts of Anemones.
In Aprill commeth on the pride of these strangers; for herein you may
behold all the sorts of Auricula Vrsi or Beares Eares, many sorts
of Anemones, both single and double, both the sorts of Tulipas, the
earlier vntill the middle of the moneth, and the later then beginning;
which are of so many different colours, that it is almost impossible
to expresse them, the white, red, blacke, and yellow Fritillarias, the
Muscari or Muske Grape flower, both ash colour and yellow. Diuers other
sorts of Iacinths and Daffodils, both single and double, the smaller
sorts of Flowerdeluces, the Veluet Flowerdeluce and double Honysuckles,
with diuers others. May likewise at the beginning seemeth as glorious
as Aprill, although toward the end it doth decline, in regard the heate
of the Sunne hath by this time drawne forth all the store of natures
tenderest dainties, which are vsually spent by the end of this moneth,
and then those of stronger constitution come forward. Herein are to
bee seene at the beginning the middle flowring Tulipas, and at the
end the later sorts: some kindes of Daffodils, the Day Lillies, the
great white Starre flower, the Flowerdeluce of Constantinople or the
mourning Sable flower, the other sorts of Flowerdeluces. Single and
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