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
We haue in our Gardens another sort, that beareth flowers with more
leaues then the former, making it seeme to be twice double, and that
onely in Autumne; for the first flowers are single that come in
Summer: This is of that sort that beareth purple flowers: And it is
to be obserued, that the seed of this kinde will not all bring double
flowers, but only some, if the ground be fit and liking, so that if you
haue once had of this double kinde, you shall seldome misse to haue
double flowers againe euery yeare of it owne growing or sowing.
5. _Viola flammea lutea maxima._ The great yellow Pansie.
There is one other kinde of Harts ease, that decketh vp our Gardens not
to be forgotten, whose leaues and flowers are like the former, but more
plentifull in stalkes and branches, and better abideth our Winters;
the flowers are larger then any of the former, of a faire pale yellow
colour, with some yellower stripes now and then about the middle; for
it is sometimes without any stripes; and also of a little deeper yellow
colour: this is to bee encreased by slips, which will soone comprehend
in a moist or moistened ground, for that I neuer could obserue that it
bore seede.
The Place.
These plants were first wilde, and by manuring brought to be
both fairer in colour, and peraduenture of a better sent then
when they grew wilde.
The Time.
The Violets flower in March, and sometimes earlier, and if the
yeare be temperate and milde, in Autumne againe. The double
Violets, as they are later before they flower then the single,
so they hold their flowers longer. The Harts ease flowreth
seldome vntill May; but then some will abide to flower vntill
the end of Autumne almost, especially if the frosts be not
early.
The Names.
The Violet is called _Viola nigra_, _purpurea_, and _Martia_:
In English, Violets, March Violets, and purple Violets. The
Harts ease is called _Viola flammea_, _Viola tricolor_, _Viola
multicolor_, and of some, _Iacea_, _Flos trinitatis_, and
_Herba clauellata_: In English, Harts ease, and Pansies, of
the French name Pensees. Some giue it foolish names, as Loue
in idlenesse, Call mee to you, and Three faces in a hood. The
great yellow Harts ease is so called, because it is like in
forme, and is the greatest of all other, although it haue not
that diuersity of colours in it that the other haue.
The Vertues.
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