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
let this Caueat be a sufficient remembrance vnto you, that you neuer
water any of these Gilloflowers, nor yet indeede any other fine herbe
or plant with cold water, such as you haue presently before drawne out
from a pumpe or Well, &c. but with such water as hath stood open in
the aire in a cisterne, tubbe, or pot, for one whole day at the least;
if it be two or three daies it will be neuer the worse, but rather the
better, as I haue related before: yet take especiall heede that you doe
not giue them too much to ouer-glut them at any time, but temperately
to irrorate, bedew or sprinkle them often. From the seedes of these
Gilloflowers hath risen both white, red, blush, stamell, tawny lighter
and sadder, marbled, speckled, striped, flaked, and that in diuers
manners, both single and double flowers, as you shall see them set
downe in a more ample manner in the Chapter of Gilloflowers. And thus
much for their encrease by the two wayes of planting and sowing: For as
for a third way, by grafting one into or vpon another, I know none such
to be true, nor to be of any more worth than an old Wiues tale, both
nature, reason, and experience, all contesting against such an idle
fancy, let men make what ostentation they please. It now resteth, that
we also shew you the manner how to preserue them, as well in Summer
from all noysome and hurtfull things, as in the Winter and Spring from
the sharp and chilling colds, and the sharpe and bitter killing windes
in March. The hurtfull things in the Summer are especially these,
too much heate of the Sunne which scorcheth them, which you must be
carefull to preuent, by placing boughes, boords, clothes or mats, &c.
before them, if they bee in the ground; or else if they bee in pots,
to remoue them into the shadow, to giue them refreshing from the
heate, and giue them water also for their life: too much water, or too
little is another annoyance, which you must order as you see there
is iust cause, by withholding or giuing them water gently out of a
watering pot, and not cast on by dishfuls: Some also to water their
Gilloflowers, vse to set their pots into tubbes or pots halfe full of
water, that so the water may soake in at the lower holes in each flower
pot, to giue moisture to the roots of the Gilloflowers onely, without
casting any water vpon the leaues, and assuredly it is an excellent way
to moisten the rootes so sufficiently at one time, that it doth saue a
great deale of paines many other times. Earwickes are a most infestuous
vermine, to spoyle the whole beauty of your flowers, and that in one
night or day; for these creatures delighting to creepe, into any
hollow or shadowie place, doe creepe into the long greene pods of the
Gilloflowers, and doe eate away the white bottomes of their leaues,
which are sweete, whereby the leaues of the flowers being loose, doe
either fall away of themselues before, or when they are gathered, or
handled, or presently wither within the pods before they are gathered,
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