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[Jay Woods <woodsjaya@gmail.com>]

There are three different copies available from the archive:

https://archive.org/details/paradisiinsolepa00parkrich
https://archive.org/details/mobot31753000703782
https://archive.org/details/paradisiinsolepa00park

I suggest you download the pdf file. The epub, DjVu, and txt versions rely
on OCR which is not too good.


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Lawrence London 
<lfljvenaura@gmail.com>wrote:

> [I knew someone who owned a copy of Paradisi In Sole, W.L. Hunt, N.C.,
> horticulturist, author, member RHS]
>
> John Parkinson (botanist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_(botanist)
>
> Parkinson, born in 1567, spent his early life in
> Yorkshire<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire>.
> He moved to London at the age of 14 years to become an apprentice
> apothecary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecary>
> .[1]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph:_Christmas_Reads-1
> >Rising
> through the ranks, he eventually achieved the position of
> apothecary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecary> to James
> I<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I_of_England>,
> and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of
> Apothecaries<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Society_of_Apothecaries>in
> December 1617; until 1622 he also served on the Court of Assistants,
> the
> Society's governing body. In addition, he assisted the Society in obtaining
> a grant of arms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms> and in
> preparing a list of all medicines that should be stocked by an
> apothecary.[2
> ]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >He
> was on the committee that published their *Pharmacopœia
> Londinensis* (*London Pharmacopœia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacopoeia>*) in
> 1618.[3]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-3>
>
> Then, on the cusp of a new science, he became
> botanist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanist>to Charles
> I <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England>.[4]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-TAMU-4
> >Anna
> Parkinson, a "distant descendant"
> [1]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph:_Christmas_Reads-1
> >of
> Parkinson and the author of a new popular biography of him, asserts
> that
> in 1625 when Charles I's bride, Henrietta Maria of
> France<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Maria_of_France>,
> came at the age of 15 years to live at St. James's
> Palace<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James%27s_Palace>,
> "he took on the role of introducing the young queen to
> horticulturally<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horticulture>sophisticated
> circles."
> [5]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph-5
> >When
> he summed up his experience in writing *Paradisi
> in Sole Paradisus Terrestris* (*Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise*, 1629 –
> "Park-in-Sun" is a pun on "Parkinson"), with the explanatory subtitle *A
> Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permit
> to be noursed up*, it was natural that he dedicated this work, which he
> called his "Speaking
> Garden",[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >to
> the queen.
> [5]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph-5
> >Blanche
> Henrey called the work the "earliest important treatise on
> horticulture published in
> England",[6]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-6
> >while
> the Hunt catalogue described it as "a very complete picture of the
> English garden at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and in such
> delightful, homely, literary style that gardeners cherish it even to the
> present day."[7]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-7>
>
> The work, which describes the proper cultivation of plants in general, was
> in three sections: the flower garden, the kitchen garden, and the orchard
> garden. It did not include specific growing instructions for each type of
> plant, but at the start of each main section Parkinson provided
> instructions on "ordering" each type of garden, advising on situating and
> laying out a garden, tools, soil improvement, grafting, planting and sowing
> and the types of plants that should be included in each type of garden. It
> contained illustrations of almost 800 plants in 108 full-page plates. Most
> of these were original woodcuts <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut>
> made
> by the German artist Christopher Switzer, but others appear to have been
> copied from the works of Matthias de
> Lobel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_de_Lobel>,
> Charles de l'Écluse<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_l%27%C3%89cluse>and
> the *Hortus
> Floridus*[8]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-8>of
> Crispijn
> van de Passe the Elder <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispijn_van_de_Passe
> >.
> [2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >
>
> In *Paradisi in Sole* Parkinson hinted that he hoped to add a fourth
> section, a garden of simples (medicinal
> herbs).[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >He
> delivered the promise in his other great book, the monumental
> *Theatrum
> Botanicum* (*The Botanical Theatre* or *Theatre of Plants*) which he
> published in 1640 at the age of 73 years. The release of this work was
> delayed due to the popularity of Thomas Johnson's edition of John
> Gerard<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerard>'s
> book *The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes*
> (1597).[9]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-9>
> *Theatrum
> Botanicum*, with 1,688 pages of
> text,[10]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph:_True_to_his_roots-10
> >describes
> over 3,800 plants and was the most complete and beautifully
> presented English treatise on plants of its day. It was the first work to
> describe 33 native plants, 13 of which grew near Parkinson's
> Middlesex<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex>home. Some of these
> plants, such as the Welsh
> poppy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_poppy>, the Strawberry
> Tree<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo>and the Lady's
> Slipper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%27s_Slipper>, were very common
> but had gone unnoticed or at least
> unrecorded.[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >He
> intended the book to be a reliable guide for apothecaries, and it
> remained so for more than a hundred years after his
> death.[5]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph-5
> >Parkinson
> presented the work to Charles I, who conferred on him the title
> "*Botanicus
> Regis Primarius*" ("Royal Botanist of the First Rank") though this came
> without a salary.[10]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph:_True_to_his_roots-10
> >
>
> Parkinson actively sought new varieties of plants through his contacts
> abroad and by financing William Boel's plant-hunting expedition to
> Iberia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula>and North
> Africa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa> in 1607–1608. He
> introduced seven new plants into England and was the first gardener in
> England to grow the great double yellow Spanish
> daffodil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28genus%29>
> .[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >
>
> His piety as a Roman
> Catholic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church>is evident
> from *Paradisi
> in Sole*. In his introduction, Parkinson saw the botanical world as an
> expression of divine creation, and believed that through gardens man could
> recapture something of Eden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden>.
> Nonetheless, a short French
> poem[11]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-11>at
> the foot of the title page warned the gardener against
> hubris <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris> and in having excessive
> regard
> for his efforts, for whoever tries to compare Art with Nature and gardens
> with Eden "measures the stride of the elephant by the stride of the mite
> and the flight of the eagle by that of the
> gnat".[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >However,
> struggles between
> Protestants <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism> and Catholics
> compelled Parkinson to keep a low
> profile.[5]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph-5
> >He
> did not attend any parish church.
> [10]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph:_True_to_his_roots-10
> >At
> the height of his success, the English
> Civil War <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War> (1642–1651)
> tore
> his family apart.[5]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph-5
> >
>
> Parkinson's London house was in Ludgate
> Hill<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludgate_Hill>,
> but his botanical garden was in suburban Long Acre in Covent
> Garden<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covent_Garden>
> ,[5]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-Telegraph-5
> >a
> district of
> market-gardens <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_gardening>, today
> close
> to Trafalgar Square <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Square>. Not
> much is known about the garden, but based on a study of the writings of
> Parkinson and others, John Riddell has
> suggested[12]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-12
> >that
> it was at least 2 acres (8,100 m
> 2) in size and probably surrounded by a wall. Four hundred and eighty-four
> types of plant are recorded as having been grown in the
> garden.[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >Thomas
> Johnson and the
> Hampshire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire> botanist, John
> Goodyer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodyer>,
> both gathered seeds
> there.[4]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-TAMU-4
> >
>
> Parkinson has been called one of the most eminent gardeners of his day. He
> maintained close relations with other important English and
> Continental<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Europe>botanists,
> herbalists and
> plantsmen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantsman> such as William Coys,
> John
> Gerard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerard>, John Tradescant the
> elder<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tradescant_the_elder>(who was
> a close friend), Vespasian Robin, and the
> Frenchman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France> Matthias de
> Lobel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_de_Lobel>(also known as
> Matthias de L'Obel or Matthaeus Lobelius). Together, they
> belonged to the generation that began to see extraordinary new plants
> coming from the Levant <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant> and from
> Virginia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia>, broadly speaking. In his
> writings, de Lobel frequently mentioned the Long Acre garden and praised
> Parkinson's abilities. Parkinson, on his part, edited and presented in
> *Theatrum
> Botanicum* the papers of de Lobel, who had spent the final years of his
> life in Highgate <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate> supervising the
> gardens of Edward la Zouche, the 11th Baron
> Zouche<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_la_Zouche,_11th_Baron_Zouche>
> .[2]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_%28botanist%29#cite_note-KCL-2
> >
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