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
These double Larkes heeles cannot bee knowne from the single of the
same kinde, vntill they come towards flowring; for there appeare many
flowers vpon the stalkes, in the same manner, and of as many colours
almost as of the single, except the party coloured, which stand like
little double Roses, layd or spread broade open, as the Rose Colombine
without any heeles behinde them, very delightfull to behold, consisting
of many small leaues growing together, and after they are fallen there
come vp in their places three or foure small cods set together, wherein
is contained here and there (for all are not full of seede, as the
single kindes) blacke seede, like vnto all the rest, but smaller, which
being sowen will bring plants that will beare both single and double
flowers againe, and it often happeneth, that it variably altereth in
colours from it owne sowing: for none of them hold constantly his owne
colour, (so farre as euer I could obserue) but fall into others; as
nature pleaseth.
6. _Delphinium Hispanicum paruum._ Spanish wilde Larkes spurres.
This small Larkes spurre of Spaine, hath diuers long and broad leaues
next the ground, cut-in on both sides, somewhat like vnto the leafe
of a Scabious, or rather that kinde of Stœbe, which Lobel calleth
Crupina, for it doth somewhat neerly resemble the same, but that this
is smooth on the edges, and not indented besides the cuts, as the
_Crupina_ is, being of a whitish greene colour, and somewhat smooth and
soft in handling: among the leaues riseth vp a whitish greene stalke,
hauing many smaller leaues vpon it that grow belowe, but not diuided,
branching out into many small stalkes, bearing flowers like vnto the
wilde Larkes heeles, but smaller, and of a bleake blewish colour, which
being past, there come vp two or three small cods ioyned together,
wherein is blacke seede, smaller and rounder then any of the former:
the roote is small and thready, quickly perishing with the first cold
that ouertaketh the plant.
The Place.
The greatest or first wilde kindes growe among corne in many
countries beyond the Seas, and where corne hath beene sowne,
and for his beauty brought and nourished in our Gardens: the
lesser wilde kinde in some fields of our owne Country. The
Spanish kinde likewise in the like places, which I had among
many seedes that Guillaume Boel brought mee out of Spaine. The
first double and single haue been common for many yeares in all
countries of this Land, but the tall or vpright single kindes
haue been entertained but of late yeares. The double kindes are
more rare.
The Time.
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