Paradisi in sole, paradisus terrestris : or, a choice garden of all sorts of rarest flowers : with their nature, place of birth, time of flowering, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty. To which is annext a kitchen-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us. With the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating and pruning of them. Together with the right ordering, planting and preserving of them, with their select vertues: All unmentioned in former Herbals
John Parkinson's 1656 herbal, printed in London and sold by bookseller Richard Thrale, is a garden catalogue for gardeners and physicians listing flowers with their nature, flowering time and medicinal virtues. The pages are woodcut plates of numbered flowering plants such as carnations, lilies, gentians and passionflowers, drawn in dense hatched line with small keyed figures and printed text beneath, a model for designers wanting botanical detail in a dense, labelled, early modern manner.
