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Hortus Eystettensis, a description of the plants collected by Jean Conrad de 

 Gemmingen, Bishop of Eichstiitt, in the gardens of the monastery at Mount 

 St. Willibald. It is a remarkable book as regards the engravings of flowers 

 and plants, but its arrangement is not so scientific as the Dutch works of 

 the period. Besler afterwards founded a museum and accumulated an 

 important botanical collection. 



The first great garden designer in Germany was Salomon de Caus ; he was 

 born in T576 at Dieppe, and after spending his early years studying architec- 



A GERMAN GARDEN IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, FROM A PAINTING BY VALKENBORCH. 



ture in France, he crossed to England. We first hear of him in an important 

 capacity in 1609, as mathematical tutor to Henry, Prince of Wales, for 

 whom he made many designs for fountains, which he afterwards published. 

 In his book Des Grots et Fontaines ■pour rornenient des Maisons de Plaisance 

 et Jardins are many designs, which he tells us were made for the adornment of 

 Richmond and the amusement of the Prince who lived there. He, no doubt, 

 is the " Frenche Gardiner " whom we find employed at Somerset House and 

 at Greenwich. After the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth with the Elector 



