114 The Botanical Renaissance [ch. 



of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre 

 will permitt to be noursed up... together With the right 

 orderinge planting and preserving of them and their uses 

 and vertues.' It has lately become accessible in the form 

 of a facsimile reprint. The words " Paradisi in Sole" form 

 a pun upon the author's name, and may be translated "Of 

 park-in-sun." The book was dedicated to Queen Henrietta 

 Maria, with the prayer that she will accept " this speaking 

 Garden." 



Text-fig. 55. " Barberry " = 5<?r^i'rz> [Part of a large 

 wood-cut, Parkinson, Paradisus Terrestris, 1629]. 



The preface to this work is entirely at variance with 

 the idea that scientific knowledge has only been gradually 

 acquired by the human race. In Parkinson's words : — 

 "God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, at the beginning 

 when he created Ada7n, inspired him with the knowledge 

 of all naturall things (which successively descended to Noah 

 afterwardes, and to his Posterity) : for, as he was able 

 to give names to all the living Creatures, according to 

 their severall natures ; so no doubt but hee had also the 



