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that we must turn to learn of the flowers which people 

 planted and tended during the entire first section of 

 the old-garden period, and of more than half of its 

 last. 



Of these writers, John Parkinson was deservedly the 

 most popular of his generation and of several succeed- 

 ing generations. His Paradisus, published in 1629, is 

 to this day delightful reading. Its quaint full title, 

 Paradisi in Sole, Paradisus Terrestris "Park-in-sun's 

 Earthly Paradise" with its play on his own name, is 

 characteristic of his generally alert and stimulating 

 fashion of presenting all that he has to offer. And 

 he is never tiresome, no matter how carefully into de- 

 tail he may go in describing a plant or a plan. 



Under his division devoted to what he calls "Out- 

 landish Flowers" he lists thirty-nine plants; under the 

 "English Flowers" he gives twenty-two. Out of this 

 number lavender, lavender cotton, lilies and gilli- 

 flowers are the only ones which are also included in 

 the much earlier list of Conrad Heresbach and in 

 "Didymus Mountain's" 1586 compilation. Heres- 

 bach's list is devoted to the kitchen garden more par- 

 ticularly, however as might be expected when its date, 

 1508, is considered. It gives practically seven times 

 as many culinary plants as either medicinal or "for 

 pleasure." Didymus Mountain gives twenty-six 

 names which fall under the kitchen garden, herb or 



