The Epiftle to the Reader. 
and manner of [owing, fitting, planting, replanting, and thelike ( although all 
thefe things, and many more then are true , are fet down Very largely in thejeuerall 
book.es that others haue Written of this/ubiecl) as alfo to fhew fome of the Kit- 
chen rvfes ( becauft they are Kitchen herbes arc.) although I confeffebut Very fpa. 
ringly, not intending a treatife of cookery, but briefly togiue a touch thereof . and 
alfo the T hyp call properties, to [hew fome what that others haue not fet forth . yet 
not to play the Empericke, andgiueyou receipts of medicines for all difeafes, but 
only to fhew in fome fort the qualities of Herbes , to quicken the minds of theftu- 
dious.And lajlly an Orchard of all forts of domeftickeorforraine, rareandgood 
fruits, fit for this our Land and fount rey, which is at this time better fiored and 
furnifhed then euer in any age before. I haue herein endeavoured, as in the other 
Gardens, to fet forth the varieties of euery fort in as briefe a manner tspo/sibly 
could be, without fuperfluous repetitions of defections, and onely with efpeciall 
notes of difference in leaues, flower sand fruits. Some few properties alfo are fet 
downe, rather the chief efl then the inofi, as thcWorke did require. And moreouer 
before euery of thefe parts I haue giuenTreatifes of the ordering, preparing and 
keeping the feuerall Gardens and Orchard, withwhatfoeuerlthought Was conue - 
nient to be known for euery of them. 
Thus haue J f hewed you both the occafion and fcope of this Worke , and herein 
haue f pent my time, paines and charge, which if well accepted, 1 JhaU thinke Well 
employed, and may the fooner haflen the fourth Tart, A Garden of Simples . which 
Will be quiet no longer at home, then that it can bring his Mafier newes affaire 
weather for the iourney. 
Thine in what he may. 
Iohn Parkinson.’ 
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