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PARADISUS TERRESTRIS
BY JOHN PARKINSON
FAITHFULLY REPRINTED
FROM THE EDITION
OF 1629
METHUEN & CO.
LONDON
1904
THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS LIMITED
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 John Parkinson
Apothecary of London,
1629
Madame,
Knowing your Maiestie so much delightedwith all the faire Flowers of a Garden, andfurnished with them as farre