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.

CHAP. XXI.

Hipposelinum, siue Olus atrum. Alisanders.

ALisanders hath beene in former times thought to be the true Macedonian Par∣sley, and in that errour many doe yet continue: but this place giueth not leaue to discusse that doubt: but I must here only shew you, what it is, and to what vse it is put ordinarily for the Kitchen. The leaues of Alisanders are winged or cut into many parts, somewhat resembling Smallage, but greater, broader, and more cut in about the edges: the stalkes are round and great, two foote high or bet∣ter, bearing diuers leaues on them, and at the toppe spokie roundles of white flowers on seuerall small branches, which turne into blacke seede, somewhat cornered or crested, of an aromaticall bitter taste: the roote is blacke without, and white with∣in, and abideth well the first year of the sowing, perishing after it hath borne seed.

The Vse of Alisanders.

The tops of the rootes, with the lower part of the stalkes of Alisanders, are vsed in Lent especially, and Spring of the yeare, to make broth, which although it be a little bitter, yet it is both wholsome, and pleasing to a great

many, by reason of the aromaticall or spicie taste, warming and comfor∣ting the stomack, and helping it digest the many waterish and flegmaticke meates are in those times much eaten. The rootes also either rawe or boyled are often eaten with oyle and vinegar. The seede is more vsed physically then the roote, or any other part, and is effectuall to prouoke plenty of v∣rine in them that pisse by drops, or haue the Strangury: It helpeth wo∣mens courses, and warmeth their benummed bodies or members, that haue endured fierce cold daies and nights, being boyled and drunke.