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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

Concerning the former of these, there is a controuersie among
        diuers, whether it should be _Thesium_ of Theophrastus, or
        _Eriphium_ of Galen, but here is no fit place to trauerse those
        opinions. Some would haue it to bee _Corydalis_, and some
        referre it to Plinie his _Capnos Chelidonia_, for the likenesse
        it hath both with Fumeterie and Celandine. It is generally
        called of all moderne Writers, _Radix Caua_, and we in English
        thereafter, Hollow roote. The lesser for the firmnesse of his
        round roote, is vsually called, _Capnos fabacea radice_, and
        the Dutch men thereafter, =Boonkens Hollwortell=: we of the
        likenesse with the former, doe call it the lesse Hollow roote.


        The Vertues.

        Some by the bitternesse doe coniecture (for little proofe hath
        beene had thereof, but in outward cases) that it clenseth,
        purgeth, and dryeth withall.




CHAP. XLIX.

_Delphinium._   Larkes heeles.


Of Larkes heeles there are two principall kindes, the wilde kinde, and
the tame or garden; the wilde kinde is of two sorts, one which is with
vs noursed vp chiefly in gardens, and is the greatest; the other which
is smaller and lower, often found in our plowed landes, and elsewhere:
of the former of these wilde sorts, there are double as well as single:
and of the tame or more vpright, double also and single: and of each of
diuers colours, as shall be set downe.


1. _Delphinium maius siue vulgare._   The ordinary Larkes heeles.

The common Larkes heele spreadeth with many branches much more ground
then the other, rather leaning or bending downe to the ground, then
standing vpright, whereon are set many small long greene leaues, finely
cut, almost like Fennell leaues: the branches end in a long spike of
hollow flowers, with a long spurre behinde them, very like vnto the

[Sidenote: _Varietas._]

flowers of the Hollow roote last described, and are of diuers seuerall
colours, as of a blewish purple colour, or white, or ash colour or red,
paler or deeper, as also party coloured of two colours in a flower;
after the flowers are past, (which in this kinde abide longer then in
the other) there come long round cods, containing very blacke seede:
the root is hard after it groweth vp to seede, spreading both abroad
and deepe, and perisheth euery yeare, vsually raising it selfe from it
own sowing, as well as from the seede sowen in the spring time.


2. _Delphinium vulgare flore pleno._   Double common Larkes heeles.

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