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CHAP* II» 
rarklnfdii — Brief account of his life — His Pa- 
radifus : the heji view of the flate of the flower 
garden in that age — Theatrum Botanicum : a 
more original and laboured performance than 
Gerard's Herbal — Its merit not fufficiently ac^ 
knowledged by his fuccejfors, 
Boel : and other contemporaries of Parkinfan* 
PARKINSON. 
JOHN Parkinson was born in 1567, 
I regret that I am not enabled to fup- 
ply a more ample account of this laborious 
man, whofe learning and abilities appear 
to me not to have been juftly appreciated. 
He was bred an apothecary, and lived in 
London. He was contemporary with Ge- 
rard and LoBEL, during the latter part 
of their lives ; and furvived Johnson feve* 
i*al years. Lob el, in the fecond part of his 
Adverfaria^ and Johnson, in his Gerardia 
Efnaculatus, fpeak of him as a man of emi- 
nence in his profeffion, and as poffeffed of 
6 a garden 
