Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause 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 collected by Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London 1629.

1. Campanula Persicifolio alba, vel caerulea. Peach-leafed Bell-flowers white or blew.

The Peach-leafed Bell-flower hath many tufts, or branches of leaues lying vpon the g••••••••d, which are long and narrow, somewhat like vnto the leafe of an Almond or P••••ch tree, being finely nicked about the edges, and of a sad greene colour, from a∣mong which rise vp diuers stalkes, two foote high or more, set with leaues to the mid∣dle, and from thence vpwards, with many flowers standing on seuerall small foote∣stalkes, one aboue another, with a small leafe at the foote of euery one: the flowers stand in small greene huskes, being small and round at the bottome, but wider open at the brimme, and ending in fiue corners, with a three forked clapper in the middle, set about with some small threds tipt with yellow, which flowers in some plants are pure

white, and in others of a pale blew or watchet colour, hauing little or no sent at all: the seede is small, and contained in round flat heads, or seede vessels: the roote is very small, white and threddy, creeping vnder the vpper crust of the ground, so that often∣times the heat and drought of the Summer wil goe near to parch and wither it vtterly: it requireth therefore to be planted in some shadowie place.