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: Re: [permaculture] John Parkinson (botanist), his work, " Paradisi In Sole" and Permaculture, much to be said.
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: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:15:38 -0500
Thanks, Jay. I am headed t download it now.
LL
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Jay Woods <woodsjaya@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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.
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>
>
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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[permaculture] John Parkinson (botanist), his work, " Paradisi In Sole" and Permaculture, much to be said.
,
Lawrence London, 11/24/2013
Re: [permaculture] John Parkinson (botanist), his work, " Paradisi In Sole" and Permaculture, much to be said.
,
Jay Woods, 11/24/2013
Re: [permaculture] John Parkinson (botanist), his work, " Paradisi In Sole" and Permaculture, much to be said.
,
Lawrence London, 11/24/2013
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