Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris


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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: with a Kitchen Garden of All Manner of Herbes, Rootes, & Fruites, for Meate Or Sause 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 Collected by John Parkinson Apothecary of London 1629


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A Garden of Pleasant Flowers


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Complete republication of first (1629) great book on England Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Remarkably accurate and delightful account describes nearly 1,000 flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruit trees. Includes over 800 woodcuts, Latin and familiar plant names, physical description and indication of plant origins, and much more.




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Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris


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From the golden age in English history to today s gardeners and designers, this volume recognizes women s contributions to gardening in Britain and around the worldspanning more than four centuries. Despite growing vegetables for their kitchens, tending herbs for their medicine cupboards, and teaching other women about the craft before agricultural schools officially existed, women have been mere footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. These pioneers influence on the style of gardens in the present day is illustrated here in a style both accessible and scholarly. Presenting a rare bouquet, this collection shares the stories of more than 200 women who have been involved withgarden design, plant collecting, flower arranging, botanical art, garden writing, and education."




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Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.




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