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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 cover

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

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A comprehensive early modern gardening manual compiled by an apothecary that offers cultivation and management advice for ornamental flowers, kitchen herbs, vegetables, and fruit trees suited to English climates. It provides practical instructions on planting, propagation, pruning, harvesting, preservation, and seasonal care for beds, borders, nurseries, and orchards. The text describes the uses and virtues of many plants, treating culinary, household, and medicinal applications alongside instructions for layout and long‑term maintenance. Interspersed reflections connect horticultural practice to moral and aesthetic observations about nature and transience, making the work both a hands‑on reference and a repository of plant lore and practical recipes.

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Title: Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp

Author: John Parkinson

Release date: November 26, 2022 [eBook #69425]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Humfrey Lawnes and Robert Young, 1629

Credits: Fay Dunn, MWS, Carlo Traverso, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Transcriber’s Note

This book is dedicated to the memory of David T. Jones who cared deeply about making literature like this available to the world.

The cover image has been created by the transcriber, and is placed in the public domain.

Variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation, punctuation and spelling are retained, however a few changes have been made to correct apparent errors, these are described in the note at the end of the book.

The characters “u”, “v”; and “i”, “j” have been left as printed, even where they are not used consistently. “ſ” characters have been changed to “s” throughout.

The Errata (Faults escaped in some Copies), which is near the end of the book have been applied to the text.