140 CHAPTER II. 
ing of them, and their ufes and vertues. 
Collected by "John Parkinson, apothe- 
cary of London 1629." Folio, pp. 6i2» 
There was a fecond edition publiflied 
after the author's death, corrected and en-, 
larged, in 1656. 
As the^fubjedt of this book interefts the 
florift and gardener merely, it comes lefs 
within the fcope of this work than hi^ 
Herbal." It is dedicated to Queen 
'Elizabeth 'y and, agreeably to the panegyri- 
cal cuflom of the times, is fet oif with re- 
commendatory verfes y among which we 
meet with fome in Latin from Thomas 
Johnson, doubtlefs the editor of Gerard, 
and a Latin letter, in a high ftrain pf eu-? 
logy, from Sir Theodore PvIayerne, 
The plants are arranged without any 
other order than that exprefTed in the title 
page. Garden flowers are divided into 134 
chapters, according to thegenerical names of 
the time ; kitchen plants into 63 chapters 5 
fruit trees and fhrubs into 24 chapters ; 
and a corollary of 22 fpecies. Nearly one 
thoufand plants are feparately defcribed ; of 
which feven hundred and eighty are figur- 
