A Garden of Pleasant Flowers

By (author): "John Parkinson"
Genres:Food History books  Herbs books  
Publish Date: 1991
A Garden of Pleasant Flowers
ISBN048626758X
ISBN139780486267586
AsinA Garden of Pleasant Flowers
Original titleA Garden of Pleasant Flowers: Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris
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.