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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

1 _Radix Caua maior flore albo._ The white flowred Hollow roote.
   2 _Capnos fabacea radice._ The small Hollow roote.
   3 _Delphinium flore simplici._ Single Larkes spurs.
   4 _Delphinium vulgare flore medio duplici._ Larkes spurs double in
        the middle.
   5 _Delphinium vulgare flore pleno._ Common Larks spurs double.
   6 _Delphinium elatius flore pleno._ Double vpright Larkes spurs.
   7 _Delphinium Hispanicum parvum._ Small Spanish Larkes spurs.
   8 _Balsamina fœmina._ The Female Balsam apple.
   9 _Nasturtium Indicum._ Indian Cresses, or yellow Larkes spurs.
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        The Place.

        Wee haue alwaies had the seede of this plant sent vs out of
        Italy, not knowing his originall place.


        The Time.

        It flowreth from the middle of Iuly, to the end of August: the
        seed doth seldome ripen with vs, especially if the Summer be
        backward, so that wee are oftentimes to seeke for new and good
        seede from our friends againe.


        The Names.

        Some vse to call it _Charantia fœmina_, _Balsamina fœmina_,
        _Balsamella_, and _Anguillara_, _Herba Sanctæ Katharinæ_. We
        haue no other English name to call it by, then the Female
        Balsame Apple, or _Balsamina_.


        The Vertues.

        Some by reason of the name, would attribute the property of
        Balme vnto this plant, but it is not sufficiently knowne to
        haue any such; yet I am well perswaded, there may bee some
        extraordinary quality in so beautifull a plant, which yet lyeth
        hid from vs.




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_Nasturtium Indicum._   Indian Cresses, or yellow Larkes heeles.

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