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

by John Parkinson

Hos cape pro meritis, qui florem nomine donas

Æternum florens tu tibi Nomen habe.

Guilielmus Atkins.

Ad Amicum Ioannem Parkinsonum Pharmacopœum, & Archibotanicum Londinensem.

Africa quas profert Plantas, quas India mittit,

Quas tua dat tellus, has tuus hortus habet:

Atque harum Species, florendi tempora, vires,