Stephen Blake, The Complete Gardener's Practice (1664)
Date
1664
Author
Book title
The Compleat Gardeners Practice, Directing The Exact Way of Gardening. In Three Parts. The Garden of Pleasure, The Physical Garden, The Kitchin Garden. How they are to be ordered for their best Situation and Improvement, with variety of Artificial Knots for the Beautifying of a Garden (all engraven in Copper) the choicest way for the Raising, Governing and Maintaining of all Plants cultivated in Gardens now in England. Being a plain Discourse how Herbs, Flowers and Trees, according to Art and Nature may be propagated by Sowing, Setting, Planting, Replanting, Pruning; also Experience of Alteration of Sent, Colour and Taste, clearly reconciling as it treateth of each Herb and Flower in particular
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Pierrepoint
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- architecture
- herbal
Summary
Articles on flowers and trees with information on their names and characteristics.
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Amorantus: or Christerious Purantus. THere are divers names and divers colours of them, but one in nature. Their names are thus; Amorantus purple, Amorantus scarlet, Amorantus cleery; many more that I'le not stand to speak of. Now I'le give you a description of them; Amorantus is like the Princes feather in shape; it flowreth in the Spring, and it is sown in the same, and seedeth the same year, and dyeth presently after: the seed is of a purple colour; this is for no use but only for the beauty and preheminency of the Flower, and therefore we nurse it in Gardens in England, and hold it in great estimation. It is supposed that the seed of this Flower came first from the Indies, and they call it there Vtter: it is the Flower of which they make the scarlet-dye; the Heathens with the juyce of this Flower will make their skins look as if they were imbrued in blood. Now I shall speak something to the propagating of it. (p. 7)
sample: Amorantus: or Christerious Purantus. THere are divers names and divers colours of them, but one in nature. Their names are thus; Amorantus purple, Amorantus scarlet, Amorantus cleery; many more that I'le not stand to speak of. Now I'le give you a description of them; Amorantus is like the Princes feather in shape; it flowreth in the Spring, and it is sown in the same, and seedeth the same year, and dyeth presently after: the seed is of a purple colour; this is for no use but only for the beauty and preheminency of the Flower, and therefore we nurse it in Gardens in England, and hold it in great estimation. It is supposed that the seed of this Flower came first from the Indies, and they call it there Vtter: it is the Flower of which they make the scarlet-dye; the Heathens with the juyce of this Flower will make their skins look as if they were imbrued in blood. Now I shall speak something to the propagating of it. (p. 7)
Alston
XVII.I.268
Wing
B3139
