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While formerly describing the fruit containing the grains or Guinea pepper, called by the physicians grana paradisi, I remarked that they have holes through them, as in effect they have when brought to us; but I have been since informed, that these holes are made on purpose to put strings or twigs through, for hanging up the fruit to dry in the sun.
The graines themselues are called of the Phisicions Grana Paradisi. They certainely affirme that in these there groweth a certaine slimie substance, which at the length slipping out of the shell and falling in the sea, becommeth those foules which we call Barnacles. The like shelles haue bene seene in ships returning from Iseland, but these shels were not past halfe an inch in length.
It is a black bird with a white abdomen, some white in the wings and tail, a few white spots on the chin, and the white eyebrow mentioned above. The most beautiful of all the flycatchers is Terpsiphone paradisi the paradise-flycatcher, or ribbon-bird, as it is often called. This is fairly abundant on the Nilgiris. The cock in the full glory of his adult plumage is a truly magnificent object.
And he sang alone to the sky and the dusty rocks and the solemn grave. He sang the 'Cujus animam gementem pertransivit gladius' of the Stabat Mater, as none had sung it before him, nor perhaps has ever sung it since that day he alone, without other music. They came also to the words 'Fac ut animæ donetur Paradisi gloria, and the word was a name to him who listened silently in their midst.
We have turned the whole of our gardens into a Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris, if you can construe that; but we must have something to make a start. He's got no end of bedding things over that are doing nothing in the Kitchen Garden and might just as well be in our Earthly Paradise.
"Do you know," said he, "the Marquis Albergati Capacelli, senator of Bologna, and Count Paradisi?" "I do not know Paradisi, but I know Albergati by sight and by reputation; he is not a senator, but one of the Forty, who at Bologna are Fifty." "Dear me! That seems rather a riddle!" "Do you know him?"
"Do you know," said he, "the Marquis Albergati Capacelli, senator of Bologna, and Count Paradisi?" "I do not know Paradisi, but I know Albergati by sight and by reputation; he is not a senator, but one of the Forty, who at Bologna are Fifty." "Dear me! That seems rather a riddle!" "Do you know him?"
John Parkinson wrote his great treatise on horticulture, 1629, under the title, "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus terrestris; or, a Choice Garden of all Sorts of Rarest Flowers, etc." Now we use the word for gardens of bliss. The word Doucin, from the Italian, is supposed originally to have designated apples of sweet flavor, but it now applies technically to a class or race of semi-dwarf apple-trees.
The soft voices of the nuns mingled in plaintive harmony as they sang the hymn of the Virgin: "Pia Mater! Fons amoris! Me sentire vim doloris Fac, ut tecum lugeam!" Again came the soft pleading notes of the sacred hymn: "Quando corpus morietur, Fac ut animae donetur Paradisi gloria! Amen!"
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