. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . d, for soe a prettyvolume of itselfe might be composed. I will therefore give youonely a hint of every one of them and referre the more ample dec-laration of them to those that would entreate onely of them. — Theatricum Botanicum. John Parkinson. ** It is not my purpose to make my book a Confectionarie, a SugarBakers Furnace, a Gentlewomans Preserving Pan, nor yet anApothecaries Shop or Dispensatorie. — Great Her ball. John Gerarde, 1556. UAINT old Rose recipes for
. Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems . d, for soe a prettyvolume of itselfe might be composed. I will therefore give youonely a hint of every one of them and referre the more ample dec-laration of them to those that would entreate onely of them. — Theatricum Botanicum. John Parkinson. ** It is not my purpose to make my book a Confectionarie, a SugarBakers Furnace, a Gentlewomans Preserving Pan, nor yet anApothecaries Shop or Dispensatorie. — Great Her ball. John Gerarde, 1556. UAINT old Rose recipes forconserves and preserves andtheir cousinry may be given inthis book of Roses withoutmaking it a confectionarie/for they are found in such num-bers in so many books of thesixteenth and seventeenth cen-turies — books that are farfrom being cook-books. Oneof my ancient volumes was published in the year 1653,by a noble knight, Sir Hugh Plat, and in the figurativelanguage of the day it is entitled, A Jewell House ofArt and Nature. It was a book of a class very popu-lar in England at that day and for a century to 305. 3o6 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday In them each author faithfully set down accordingto his own experience all kinds of rare and profit-able experiments and inventions in domestic andpublic life and Chimical conclusions, rare practices,choice secrets made known, — in short, as said SirHugh, he anatomized Art and Nature. In allof these books are found ever many recipes for dis-tillations, compoundings, preservings, etc., of fruitsand flowers ; for such doings were deemed evidencesof culture and refinement. Great men and greatwomen aided in compilation. This Jewell Houseabounds in such gastronomical rules ; the authorwaxed somewhat jocose over his turning kitchen-colonel ; he writes thus anent the preservation infresh trim of fiowers and fruits : — Now methinks I see a whole troop of gallant damesattending with listening ears or longing to learn some ne
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