John Parkinson

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John Parkinson was a 17th-century English botanist and herbalist, best known for his comprehensive work "Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris." This influential book serves as a detailed guide to gardening, encompassing a wide variety of flowers, herbs, fruits, and trees suitable for the English climate. Parkinson's writings reflect the growing interest in horticulture during his time and provide valuable insights into the cultivation and uses of plants. His contributions to the field of botany and gardening have left a lasting legacy, making him a notable figure in the history of English gardening literature.

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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 / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues John Parkinson