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used with us, and an orchard of all sorte 

 offruite bearing trees and shrubbes fit for 

 our land: together with the right order- 

 inge> planting^ and preserving of them, 

 and their uses and vertues. 



The contents of this book do not in any 

 way belie its title, for in its pages are 

 given original, practical directions not 

 only for the proper situation, nature of 

 the soil, form and laying out of a garden, 

 but for the kind and cultivation of every 

 flower, vegetable, and fruit which could 

 be "noursed up by English ayre," but 

 equally well by that of New England. 

 His work was undoubtedly well known 

 and fully appreciated by our remote 

 grandmothers on these rugged shores. 



Parkinson also published a botanical 

 book entited, Theatrum Botanicum or 

 A Theatre of Plants^ for which was con- 

 ferred upon him the title royal. The 

 year of his death is uncertain, but it was 

 about 1656. 



Sir HUGH Pi,ATT was by profession a 

 lawyer, but was very enthusiastic in his 

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