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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

Chapter 287: THE ORCHARD
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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.

THE THIRD PART
CALLED
THE ORCHARD,

Containing all sorts of trees bearing fruit for mans vse to eate, proper and fit for to plant an Orchard in our climate and countrie: I bound it with this limitation, because both Dates, Oliues, and other fruits, are planted in the Orchards of Spaine, Italy, and other hot countries, which will not abide in ours. Yet herein I will declare whatsoeuer Art, striuing with Nature, can cause to prosper with vs, that whosoeuer will, may see what can bee effected in our countrie. And first to begin with the lower shrubbes or bushes, and after ascend to the higher trees.