93 



Yew, Box 3, Savine, Christ's Thorn, Larch, Lime (properly 

 Line or Linden Tree) Tamarisk 2, Sycamore — Bladder Nuf, 

 — Sumach 2, and Virginia Vine or Ivy, 



Thus conchides this work, •\»hich though containing not so 

 much on the cultivation of the plants, as we deem necessary in a 

 work of general Horticulture, may bo the more excused, as 

 that what he wrote was original, the result of his own prac- 

 tice and enquiries. 



There are three portraits of Parkinson known. 



1. Johannis Parkinsoni, pharmacopcei Londinensis effigies. 

 LXIL ostatis annum agentis, a nato Christo, 162J). Before 

 bis Paradisus Terrestris. Wood Cut by Christopher 

 Switzer. 



2. John Parkinson. A small oval, in the title of his " Thea- 

 tre of Plants." By W. Marshall. 



3. John Parkinson. An Oval by W. Richardson. 



1G31. Observations on Sir Francis Bacon's Natural History, 

 so far as it concerns Fruit Trees. By FIIANCLS 

 AUSTEN. 4to. Again in 1G57. 



GABRIEL PLATTES was of humble origin, but of his 

 lineage, place of nativity &c, I have discovered nothing. His 

 works however demonstrate that he was a i)ractical man of 

 clear intellect, and o])serving mind. Being a needy m;in, he at 

 times was dependant upon the bounty of others for subsistence, 

 amongst those who chiefly administered to his relief WcS 

 S. Hartlib, to whom he bequeathed his papers, few of which 

 were published. He died miserably in the streets, almost in a 

 slate of nudity. That he was justly estimated by his coulou- 



