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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

To set or plant your best and bearing Tulipas somewhat deeper then
other rootes, I hold it the best way; for if the ground bee either
cold, or lye too open to the cold Northerne ayre, they will be
the better defended therein, and not suffer the frosts or cold to
pierce them so soone: for the deepe frosts and snowes doe pinch the
_Præcoces_ chiefly, if they bee too neare the vppermost crust of
the earth; and therefore many, with good successe, couer ouer their
ground before Winter, with either fresh or old rotten dung, and that
will maruellously preserue them. The like course you may hold with
seedlings, to cause them to come on the forwarder, so it bee after the
first yeares sowing, and not till then.

To remoue Tulipas after they haue shot forth their fibres or small
strings, which grow vnder the great round rootes, (that is, from
September vntill they bee in flower) is very dangerous; for by remouing
them when they haue taken fast hold in the ground, you doe both hinder
them in the bearing out their flower, and besides, put them in hazzard
to perish, at least to bee put backe from bearing for a while after,
as oftentimes I haue proued by experience: But when they are now risen
to flower, and so for any time after, you may safely take them vp if
you will, and remoue them without danger, if you haue any good regard
vnto them, vnlesse it be a young bearing roote, which you shall in so
doing much hinder, because it is yet tender, by reason it now beareth
his first flower. But all Tulipa roots when their stalke and leaues are
dry, may most safely then be taken vp out of the ground, and be so kept
(so that they lye in a dry, and not in a moist place) for sixe moneths
without any great harme: yea I haue knowne them that haue had them nine
moneths out of the ground, and haue done reasonable well, but this
you must vnderstand withall, that they haue not been young but elder
rootes, and they haue been orderly taken vp and preserued. The dryer
you keep a Tulipa roote the better, so as you let it not lye in the
sunne or winde, which will pierce it and spoile it.

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