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John Parkinson (1566/7 - 1650)

Apothecary, botanist, and herbalist Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21372?docPos=4 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parkinson_(botanist) Authority - early modern
Botanist
 Relationships: William Broad (-) was a friend of John Parkinson
John Millen (-1635) was a friend of John Parkinson
John, the Elder Tradescant (c.1570s-c.15 Apr 1638) was a friend of John Parkinson
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - 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 Iohn Parkinson apothecary of London 1629. .
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, or, an Herball of Large Extent..
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.) Parkinson (1640), p. 1298
MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.) Parkinson 1640, p. 1299
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 96. Persicaria Virginiana Mus. Trad. 153. frutescens maculosa Virg. fl. albo Park. fig. 857. H. Ox. 589. Raii H. Pl. 183. Parkinson's white Virginian Arsemart. I have seen this in many Gardens about London.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) Park. Parkinson his Theatrum Botanicum. Lond. 1640. fol.