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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 cover

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

Chapter 212: Chapter 2: Tyme
By John Parkinson
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A comprehensive early modern gardening manual compiled by an apothecary that offers cultivation and management advice for ornamental flowers, kitchen herbs, vegetables, and fruit trees suited to English climates. It provides practical instructions on planting, propagation, pruning, harvesting, preservation, and seasonal care for beds, borders, nurseries, and orchards. The text describes the uses and virtues of many plants, treating culinary, household, and medicinal applications alongside instructions for layout and long‑term maintenance. Interspersed reflections connect horticultural practice to moral and aesthetic observations about nature and transience, making the work both a hands‑on reference and a repository of plant lore and practical recipes.

Chap. II

Thymum vulgatius siue durius. Ordinary Garden Tyme.

The ordinary Garden Tyme is a small low wooddy plant with brittle branches, and small hard greene leaues, as euery one knoweth, hauing small white purplish flowers, standing round about the tops of the stalkes: the seed is small and browne, darker then Marierome seed: the root is woody, and abideth well diuers Winters.

Thymum latifolium. Masticke Tyme.

This Tyme hath neyther so wooddy branches, nor so hard leaues, but groweth lower, more spreading, and with somewhat broader leaues; the flowers are of a purplish white colour, standing in roundles round about the stalkes, at the ioynts with leaues at them likewise. This Tyme endureth better and longer then the former, and by spreading it selfe more then the former, is the more apt to bee propagated by slipping, because it hath beene seldome seene to giue seede: It is not so quicke in sent or taste as the former, but is fitter to set any border or knot in a garden, and is for the most part wholly employed to such vses.

The Vse of Tyme.

To set downe all the particular vses whereunto Tyme is applyed, were to weary both the Writer and Reader; I will but only note out a few: for besides the physicall vses to many purposes, for the head, stomacke, splene, &c. there is no herbe almost of more vse, in the houses both of high and low, rich and poore, both, for inward and outward occasions; outwardly for bathings among other hot herbes, and among other sweete herbes for strewings: inwardly in most sorts of broths, with Rosmary, as also with other faseting (or rather farsing) herbes, and to make sawce for diuers sorts both fish and flesh, as to stuffe the belly of a Goose to bee rosted, and after put into the sawce, and the pouder with breade to strew on meate when it is rosted, and so likewise on rosted or fryed fish. It is held by diuers to bee a speedy remedy against the sting of a Bee, being bruised and layd thereon.

1Maiorana maior Anglica. Pot Marierome.
2Thymum vulgatius. Garden Tyme.
3Satureia. Sauorie.
4Hyssopus. Hyssope.
5Pulegium. Penniroyall.
6Saluia maior. Common Sage.
7Saluia minor primata. Sage of vertue.