Transcriber’s Note This book is dedicated to the memory of David T. Jones who cared deeply about making literature like this available to the world. Words in italics are marked with _underscores_. Words in plain text within italics are marked with +plus signs+. Words in blackletter are marked with =equals signs=. Words in small capitals are shown in UPPER CASE. Variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation, punctuation and spelling are retained, however a few changes have been made to correct apparent errors, these are described in the note at the end of the book. The characters “u”, “v”; and “i”, “j” have been left as printed, even where they are not used consistently. “ſ” characters have been changed to “s” throughout. The Errata (_Faults escaped in some Copies_), which is near the end of the book have been applied to the text. PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS BY JOHN PARKINSON FAITHFULLY REPRINTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1629 METHUEN & CO. LONDON 1904 THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS LIMITED [Illustration: 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 Qui veut parangonner l’artifice a Nature Et nos parcs a l’Eden indiscret il mesure. Le pas de l’Elephant par le pas du ciron, Et de l’Aigle le vol par cil du mouscheron. ] TO THE QVEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE. _Madame_, Knowing your Maiestie so much delighted with all the faire Flowers of a Garden, and furnished with them as farre beyond others, as you are eminent before them; this my Worke of a Garden, long before this intended to be published, and but now only finished, seemed as it were destined, to bee first offered into your Highnesse hands, as of right challenging the proprietie of Patronage from all others. Accept, I beseech your Maiestie, this speaking Garden, that may informe you in all the particulars of your store, as well as wants, when you cannot see any of them fresh vpon the ground: and it shall further encourage him to accomplish the remainder; who, in praying that your Highnesse may enioy the heauenly Paradise, after the many yeares fruition of this earthly, submitteth to be _Your Maiesties in all humble deuotion_, IOHN PARKINSON. TO THE COVRTEOVS READER.