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lines for needlework. The book historically is certainly 

 interesting. The text is in Latin, but even the unlearned 

 reader is able to realise how horticulturally perfect may 

 have been the gardens of Europe where Louis XIII. of 

 France played as a child, and the number and richness 

 of the flowers which our Prince Charles of "Wales (his 

 future brother-in-law) may have gazed at from his palace 

 windows or enjoyed when gathered. This, perhaps, 

 helped to nourish the great taste for art which Charles!., 

 more than aU our other kings, developed later in life. 



1629. I have both the Parkinsons. The first pub- 

 lished of the two has the following curious descriptive 

 inscription written on a shield at the bottom of the title- 

 page :— 



Pahadisi m Sole 

 Paeabisus Tebkestbis. 



A Gabden of aI/Ii sokts of pleasant flowebs which cub 

 English atee will pebmitt to be notjbsed up : 



WITH 



A Kitchen garden op >t.t. mannee of hebbes, bavies, and fbuites 

 roB meate oe sause used with us, 



AND 



An Oeohaed of all soets of feuit-eeabing tbees 



AND SHEUBES fit FOE OUE LaND, 



togetheb 



With the bight oedeeinge, planting, and peesabving 



of them, and theie uses and vebtues. 



Collected by John Pabkinson, 



Apothecabt of London. 



The picture on the title-page portrays the Garden 

 of Eden with Adam and Eve tending the flowers. 

 The outward edge is rimmed with spikes representing 

 the sun's rays. At the top is the eye of Providence, and 



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