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and zealous herbalist, are very scanty. He died about 1645, 

 aged about 78. The curious contents of his Pwradisus are 

 diffusively narrated in Johnson's English Gardening. When 

 perusing the pages of either of the above, one may exclaim, 



" not a tree, 



A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains 

 A folio volume. We may read, and read, 

 And read again; and still find something new, 

 Something to please, and something to instruct, 

 E'en in the humble weed." 



The above is scarcely better than Switzer's. There appears 

 no faithful portrait of Parkinson, but Marshall's, who had the 

 felicity to draw other portraits besides his. 



if you shake the flower never so violently, will not fall off, neyther if you 

 let it continue never so long, will it eyther encrease or diminish in the big- 

 nesse, but remaineth all one : yet if with your finger you take and wipe it 

 away, in less than an hour after you shall have another arise in the same 

 place, and of the same bignesse. This pearle, if you taste it upon your 

 tongue, is pleasant, and sweet like honey : this flower when the sunne ariseth, 



