224 APPENDIX. 



SO on throughout. He introduced our garden rhubarb, 

 which he makes mention of in these words : — " I haue a 

 kinde of round leafed Dock growing in m}^ Garden, which 

 was sent me from beyond Sea by a worthy Gentleman, 

 Mr. Dr. Matth. Lister, one of the King's Physitians, with 

 this title, Rai:>onticum verum, and first grew with me, before 

 it was ever seen or known elsewhere in England, wS^ by 

 proof I haue found to be so like vnto the true Paibarbe, or 

 the Eha of Pontus, both for forme and colour, that I daresay 

 it is the very true Eubarbe, our climate only making it lesse 

 strong in working, lesse heauy, and lesse bitter in taste." — 

 ^Paradisus.' 



His two works — one on gardening, and the other on 

 general botany — have already been mentioned (p. 50). The 

 title of the first work in full is — 



^PAEADISI 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, and fruites, for meate or 

 sause vsed with vs, and an Orchard of all sorte of fruit 

 bearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land, together with 

 the right orderinge, planting, and preseruing of them, and 

 their vses and vertues. Collected by John Parkinson, 

 Apothecary of London, 1629.' It was dedicated to the 

 queen (Henrietta Maria). 



A second edition of the ' Paradisus' appeared in IGSG, six 

 years after the death of its author. 



Parkinson's other work was entitled, ' Theatrum Botani- 



cum: the Theater of Plants, or an Herball of a large 



extent.' The title-page states more at length what the work 



contains : — " Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, 



" The translation is ' Park-in-siin's Terrestrial Paradise.' 



