OLD-TIME FLOWERS 
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that we must turn to learn of the flowers which people 
planted and tended during the entire first section of 
the old-garden period, and of more than half of its 
last. 
Of these writers, John Parkinson was deservedly the 
most popular of his generation and of several succeed¬ 
ing generations. His Paradisus, published in 1629, is 
to this day delightful reading. Its quaint full title, 
Paradisi in Sole , Paradisus Terrestris —“Park-in-sun’s 
Earthly Paradise”—with its play on his own name, is 
characteristic of his generally alert and stimulating 
fashion of presenting all that he has to offer. And 
he is never tiresome, no matter how carefully into de¬ 
tail he may go in describing a plant or a plan. 
Under his division devoted to what he calls “Out¬ 
landish Flowers” he lists thirty-nine plants; under the 
“English Flowers” he gives twenty-two. Out of this 
number lavender, lavender cotton, lilies and gilli- 
flowers are the only ones which are also included in 
the much earlier list of Conrad Heresbach and in 
“Didymus Mountain’s” 1586 compilation. Heres- 
bach’s list is devoted to the kitchen garden more par¬ 
ticularly, however—as might be expected when its date, 
1508, is considered. It gives practically seven times 
as many culinary plants as either medicinal or “for 
pleasure.” Didymus Mountain gives twenty-six 
names which fall under the kitchen garden, herb or 
