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Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp
John Parkinson
In 1629 an apothecary set out to describe every pleasant flower an English garden could hold. Parkinson opens with the choosing of a site, the frame and form of the beds, and the amending of poor soils, then turns to the many sorts of herbs. A founding voice of English gardening, courteous and green-fingered. Learn how a garden of delight was planted four centuries ago.
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319 chapters
- 1PARADISI IN SOLE PARADISUS TERRESTRIS
- 2TO THE QVEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE.
- 3TO THE COVRTEOVS READER
- 4JOHN PARKINSON
- 5THE ORDERING OF THE GARDEN OF PLEASVRE
- 6Chapter 1: Situation; nature of soyles; amend defects
- 7Chapter 2: The frame or forme of a Garden
- 8Chapter 3: The many sorts of herbes
- 9Chapter 4: Diuers Out-landish flowers
- 10Chapter 5: English flowers
- 11Chapter 6: To plant Out-landish flowers
- 12Chapter 7: Times of flowering of Out-landish flowers
- 13Chapter 8: To encrease Gilloflowers
- 14Chapter 9: That there is no art; double flowers
- 15THE GARDEN OF PLEASANT FLOWERS
- 16Chapter 1: Crowne Imperiall
- 17Chapter 2: Persian Lilly
- 18Chapter 3: Martagons
+ 301 more. The full contents open with the book.
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