Tm^kinfon^ 14 j 
tvith the ftate of the art at the time Par- 
kinson wrote, would perhaps be furprized 
to find that his predccelTors could enume- 
rate, befides fixteen defcribed as diftinit 
fpecies, one hundred and twenty varieties of 
the tulips lixty anemonies^ more than nine- 
ty of the narcijfus tribe, fifty hyacinths^ 
fifty carnatioitSy V^^wty piiiks, thirty cro- 
cufes^ and above forty of the iris genus. In 
the orchard we find above fixty kinds of 
phms, as many apples and pears^ thirty 
cherries^ and more than twenty peaches. 
In 1640, Parkinson publifhed his 
Theatrum Botanicum; or. Theatre 
of Plants, or an Herbal of a laree extent : 
*^ containing therein a more ample and ex- 
" ad: hiftory and declaration of the phyfical ■ 
herbs and plants that are in other au- 
" thors ; encreafed by the accefs of many 
hundreds of new, rare, and flrange 
plants from all the parts of the world i 
with fundry gummes, and other phyfical 
materials, than hath been hitherto pub- 
liflied by any before : and a moil large 
demon ftration of their nature and virtues. 
Shewing withal, the many errors, differ- 
ences^ 
