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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

question the same: for the seede is very like vnto the seede
        of Lillies, as any man may easily discerne that know them,
        or will compare them. It is generally called by all the late
        Writers, _Tulipa_, which is deriued from the name _Tulpan_,
        whereby the Turkes of _Dalmatia_ doe entitle their head
        Tyres, or Caps; and this flower being blowne, laide open, and
        inuerted, doth very well resemble them. We haue receiued the
        early kinde from Constantinople, by the name of _Cafa lale_,
        and the other by the name of _Cauala lale_. Lobel and others
        doe call it _Lilio-narcissus_, because it doth resemble a Lilly
        in the leafe, flower, and seede, and a Daffodil in the roote.
        We call it in English the Turkes Cap, but most vsually Tulipa,
        as most other Christian Countries that delight therein doe.
        Daleschampius calleth it Oulada.


        The Vertues.

        Dioscorides writeth, that his first Satyrium is profitable for
        them that haue a convulsion in their necke, (which wee call a
        cricke in the necke) if it be drunke in harsh (which we call
        red) wine.

        That the roots of Tulipas are nourishing, there is no doubt,
        the pleasant, or at least the no vnpleasant taste, may hereunto
        perswade; for diuers haue had them sent by their friends from
        beyond Sea, and mistaking them to bee Onions, haue vsed them as
        Onions in their pottage or broth, and neuer found any cause of
        mislike, or any sense of euill quality produced by them, but
        accounted them sweete Onions.

        Further, I haue made tryall of them my selfe in this manner. I
        haue preserued the rootes of these Tulipas in Sugar, as I haue
        done the rootes of Eringus, Orchis, or any other such like, and
        haue found them to be almost as pleasant as the Eringus rootes,
        being firme and sound, fit to be presented to the curious; but
        for force of Venereous quality, I cannot say, either from my
        selfe, not hauing eaten many, or from any other, on whom I haue
        bestowed them: but surely, if there be any speciall propertie
        in the rootes of Orchis, or some other tending to that purpose,
        I thinke this may as well haue it as they. It should seeme,
        that Dioscorides doth attribute a great Venereous faculty to
        the seede, whereof I know not any hath made any especiall
        experiment with vs as yet.




CHAP. IX.

_Narcissus._   The Daffodill.

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