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Physick Garden at our being there but meanly stored with 

 simples." 1 



In particular, Gesner 2 alludes to several gardens at Padua 

 and mentions the one under the charge of Anguillara, which 

 was no doubt the Botanic Garden, as having a fine collection of 

 plants with representatives from Syria, Crete and other dis- 

 tant places. He refers in the first place to the Garden of 

 Caspar a Gabrielis "vir inter nobiles Patavinos longe nobi- 

 lissimus," and then to "Priulanus hortus magnificus," which 

 was under Aloisius Anguillara (Romanus). Gesner 's account 

 is as follows : 



"Ibidem Priulanus hortus magnificus, plantis variis & raris e 

 Syria etiam accersitis admirationi est. Omnes vero omnium, ni 

 fallor, hortorum magnificentia simul, & stirpium in eo vari- 

 arum omnis generis, e Creta etiam & aliunde peregrinarum, 

 numero laudes facile vincit publicus ille Patavii in medicorum 

 gratiam inclyti Senatus Veneti liberalitate institutus hortus, cui 

 hoc tempore Aloisius Anguillara Romanus, vir in stirpium 

 historia nostro seculo exercitatissimus atque peritissimus 

 omnium, magna cum laude praeest." 



According to Saccardo, 3 Luigi Squalermo (detto Anguil- 

 lara) was the first prefect "dell 'orto padovano ed ostensori 

 dei semplici" from 1546 to 1561. 



From this time onwards, no doubt, the tendency was to grow 

 as many plants as possible, and a healthy rivalry commenced 

 between the various botanical establishments as to who could 

 show the greatest number of different species in cultivation. 



1 Ray, J. Travels through the Low Countries 1: p. 182. 1738. [2nd ed.] 

 Ray mentions the following eminent men at Padua: Aloysius Mundella, Aloysius 

 Anguillara, Melchior Guilandinus, Jacobus Antonius Cortusus, Prosper Alpinus, 

 Joannes Veslingius. 



Saccardo, loc. cit. p. 7, gives the following list of Prefects of the Paduan 

 Garden : 



1546-1561 Luigi Squalermo (detto Anguillara). 



1561-1589 Melchiore Guilandino. 



1590—1603 Giacom' Antonio Cortuso. 



1603—1616 Prospero Alpini (o Alpino). 



1616-1631 Giovanni Prevozio (Prevot). 



1631 Giovanni Rhodio, iosto rinunciatario. 



1631-1637 Alpino Alpini. 



1638-1649 Giovanni Veslingio. 



2 Gesner, C. De Hortis Italiae. Loc. cit. p. 239 verso. 



8 Loc. cit. p. 7. 



