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Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, 
closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, per¬ 
fumes and waters. Reade, practise and censure, London, "R Sviorl 
1602. 18®. (^Jymans Lib.; Rohde, E. S. The Old Eng- ^ ^ 
lish Gardening Books, p.32-36; Lowndes, W. T. The Bib-^ 
liographer»s Manual of English Literature, v.4, p.l880) 
E, S, Rohde, l.c., says that this small 
still-room book has always been a prized Eliz¬ 
abethan gardening item. On every page is a 
woodcut border of violets, roses, gilliflow- 
ers, marigolds, or conventional designs of 
the Tudor rose and fleur-de-lis of France, or 
the letters E, R, for Q^een Elizabeth, In an 
article on the Nymans library. Jour, Roy. Hort, 
Soc. 58:337 (Sept. 1933), Miss Rohde describes 
a copy that once belonged to James I, Lowndes, 
l.c., lists eds. of 1602, 1609, 1611, 1617, 
1628. 
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Floraes paradise, beautified and adorned with sundry 
sorts of delicate fruites and flowers, by the industrious 
labour of H. P. knight. London, H.L;‘'for W. Leake, 1608. 
(Brit, Mus.) 
Johnson, p.70, gives ’’The Paradise of Flora, 
1600”, but 1608 is the earliest date indicated 
by Lady Cecil, p.337; Haller, 1:405, & others, 
Johnson says "The Garden of Eden is the same as 
the Paradise of Flora, with the mere alteration 
of the title, by a Mr. C. Bellingham, a kinsman 
of Sir Hu^’s, The second part of the Garden of 
Eden is entirely a composition of Bellingham’s". 
