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settinj^s, the inwardest of which that were to come up at the 

 same time, should be always a little darker than the outmost, 

 and to serve them for a kind of gentle shadow, like apiece, not 

 of Nature, but of Art. Of figured fountains I will describe a 

 matchless pattern done by the hand of Michael Angelo de 

 Buonaroti, in the figure of a sturdy woman washing and wind- 

 ing of linen clothes, in which act, she wrings out the water that 

 made the fountain ; which was a graceful and natural conceit — 

 the Artificer, implying this rule ; that all designs of this kind 

 should be proper.*'* 



JOHN PARKINSON, was born in 15G7. according to the 

 date on his portrait prefixed to his ** Paradisus." — He was by 

 profession an Apothecary, and so eminent as to act in that 

 capacity to James the I. — He was also a distinguished Horti- 

 culturist and Botanist, his "Theatre of Plants" obtaining for 

 him, from Charles the I. the title of " Botanicus Regius Pri- 

 marius." — He spent nearly forty years in travelling. (Paradisus 

 p. 63) He was proprietor of a garden well stocked with scarce 

 plants. The time of his death is not ascertained, but it occured 

 between 1G40, and 1656. His first publication was " Paradisi 

 in sole Paradisus terrestris, or a garden of all sorts of pleasant 

 flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up, 

 with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, and 

 fruites for meate or sause, used with us, and an orchard of all 

 sorte of fruit bearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land; 

 together with the right orderinge, planting, and preserving of 

 them, and their uses and vertucs. 1629." folio, with an engraved 

 title page representing the garden of Eden,a portrait of the 

 author, and 109 wood cuts of fruits and flowers. The dedica- 

 tion to the Queen. A second edition appeared corrected and 

 enlarged, after his death, in 1656. In 1640 appeared his 

 " Theatrum Botannicum or Theatre of Plants, or an Herbal 

 of large extent, &c." — The most extensive Botannical work 

 then extant. 



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