HERB - List 5 of 7 - Herbs etc. for Windows and Pots
Norman White
gn-white at tamu.edu
Fri Jun 12 14:02:37 PDT 1998
Jin Liu Ch'ang here
Raisya said:
>Thank you! I've got all of them copied, now I have to figure them all out
No you do not. There are 7 lists.
The next one shows we may have more in common with people in the 1500s than we think as it is a list for window plants and those planted in pots. Are you ready for a period flower garden? Well this is the list for you. Many of these plants are still in flower gardens, some I have never heard of until I started this list. Again this list is from Tusser.
Herbes, Branches, and Flowers, for Windows and Pots
1. Baies, sowe or set in plants in Januarie 2. Batchelers buttons
3. Botles, blew, red, and tawnie 4. Collembines 5. Campions
6. Cousleps 7. Daffadondilles 8. Eglantine, or sweet brier 9. Fetherfew
10. Flower armor sowe in May 11. Flower de luce 12. Flower gentle, white and red 13. Flower nice 14. Gileflowers, red, white and carnations, set in spring, and at Harvest in pots, pailes or tubs, or for sommer in beds 15. Holiokes, red, white and carnations 16. Indian eie, sowe in May, or set in slips in March 17. Lavender of all sorts
18. Larkes foot 19. Laus tibi 20. Lillium cum valium 21. Lillies, red and white, sowe or set in March and September 22. Marigolds double
23. Nigella Romana 24. Pauncies or hartesease 25. Paggles, greene and yelow 26. Pinkes of all sorts 27. Queenes gilleflowers 28. Rosemarie
29. Roses of all sorts 30. Snag dragons 31. Sops in wine 32. Sweet Williams 33. Sweet Johns 34. Star of Bethelem 35. Star of Jerusalem
36. Stocke gilleflowers of all sorts 37. Tuft gilleflowers 38. Velvet flowers, or french Marigolds 39. Violets, yellow and white 40. Wall gilleflowers of all sorts.
This list has a feature which puzzles me. From the list, I would come to the decision that carnations, at this period, referred to some feature of flowers rather than a certain variety of flower. Is this correct?
Norman White
a.k.a. Jin Liu Ch'ang
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