Book I. 



DUTCH WORKS ON GARDENING. 



1129 



1817. Pindemonle, Jppolito di, an Italian poet, 

 who has spent some time in England, and Luigi 

 Mabil, a gentleman of Lombardy. 



Su i Giardini Inglesi, e sul merito in cio' dell" Italia, Disser- 



tazione d" I. P e sopra l'indole dei giardini modemi saggio 



di L. M. Con altre operette sullo stesso argomento. Verona. 

 8vo. i plate. 



1817. Anon. " . 



1. Accurato agricoltore per Campi, Orti e Giardini, con 

 tutte le regole della Coltivazione sulla fondata esperienza di 

 uomini periti. Milano, 1817. 12rno. 



2. La Coltura dei fiori a seconda del clima Lombardo. Id. 



1737. Anon. ; the author Mr. La Court, a Dutch 

 merchant, who had a country-house and fine gar- 

 den at Driehoek, (triangle,) near Leyden, where 

 he was the first to introduce and cultivate, with 

 success, the pine-apple and the tuberose. He died 

 between 1737 and 1740. 



Aenmerkingen over het aenleggen van landhuizen, lusthoven, 



Elantagion, enz, enz. (Remarks on the laying out of country- 

 ouses, pleasure-gardens, plantations, &c. &c ' ' 

 p. 412, with 15 plates. 



plantations, Sic. Sec.) Leyden 4t"o. 



2. Dell* Influsso de' Boschl sullo sUto fisico de' Paesi, e 

 sulla prosperity della nazione. Milano. 8vo. 1817. 



3. Memoria sul pascolo de' Boschi resinosi, da fronda, d alto 

 fusto e cedui. Milano, 1815. 8vo. 



1816. Sartorelli, Giorgio Baitisti. 

 Degli alberi indigeni ai boschi del Italia superiore. Milano, 

 1816. 8vo. 



1816. Anon. 

 Manuale del Giardiniere pratico, &c. Milan. 8vo. 



1817. Mabil, Sig. Luigi, of Verona. 

 Saggio sopra 1' indole dei giardini modemi. Verona, 1817- 



8vo. 



181- Anon. 

 Dell' Arte de Giardini Inglesi. 2 vols. 8vo. 



Subsect. 4. Works on Gardening originated and published in Holland, exclusive of 



Translations. 



7695. The Dutch excel more in the practice than in the literature of gardening. The 

 works of La Court, and Van Osten, the former little known, are among the best that 

 have been produced. There are none of recent date of any consequence. The 

 Journal of a Horticultural Tour in Holland, Flanders, $c. by a deputation of the 

 Caledonian Horticultural Society, gives the best idea of the state of gardening in that 

 part of the Continent in 1817. 



1560. Curtius, Benedictus. 



Hortorum libri xxx., in quibus contenetur arborum histona, 

 partim ex probatissimis quibusque auctoribus, partim ex auc- 

 toris observatione collecta. Leyden. fol. 



1613. Meursius, Jean, died at Leyden, in 1613, in 

 the flower of his age. 



De arborum fructicum et herbaceum proprietate usu et qua- 

 litatibus, lib. iii. Levden. 8vo. 



1631. Cluyt, Outger Augerius, author of some 

 works on minerals and insects. 



Memoire der vreemden blom-bollen, wortelen, kruyden, 

 planten, struycken, zaJen ende vruchten, hoe men die sal wel 

 gheconditioneert bewaren ende over seynden, that is, 



Memoir on the mode of preserving and sending over in good 

 condition foreign bulbs, roots, herbs, plants, shrubs, seeds, and 

 fruits. Amsterdam. 8vo. 



1699. Vander, Grocn, I , gardener to the 



Prince of Orange. 



Le Jardinier Hollandais, avec environ deux centes modules 

 de parterres a fleurs et autres ; labyrinthes, pavilions, ouvrages, 

 trefllis et mailles de lattes, et de quadrans et horloges solaires. 

 Amsterdam. Ito. 



1672. Munliguis, Alrahoue, physician, and pro- 

 fessor of botany at Groningen ; born in 1626, died 

 in 1682. 



De cura et cultura plantanun. Amstel. 4to. fig. 



1676. Came, D. H. 



De Koninglycke hovenier (the Royal Gardener.) Amster- 

 dam, fol. p. 22*4, plates. 



1676. Commelin, John, a botanist, was born at 

 Amsterdam in 1629. He succeeded his father as 

 one of the magistrates of his native city, where he 

 formed a new botanical garden, and died in 1692. 

 His nephew, Gasper Commelin, a physician, was 

 appointed professor in botany, and director of the 

 garden at Amsterdam. 



Nederlandtze Hesperides. Amst. fol. with many plates. 

 Englished by G. V. N . London, 1683. 8vo. 



1682. Van Sterbeeck Francis. 



Citricultura, of regeringhe der uythenische boomen. (Of the 

 culture of the orange tribe, and the management of exotic 

 trees.) Antwerp. 4to. p. 296, 14 plates. 



1703. Osten, or Ooslen, Henry Van, curator of 

 the botanic garden at Leyden. 



1. Der Neiderlandische Garten. Leyden. 8vo. 5 plates. 

 Translated into German and French ; and into English, as 



2. The Dutch Gardener, Sec. Lond. 1710. 8\o. 

 1713. Anon. 



De nieuwe naauwkeurige Xeederlandse hovenier. (The Xew 

 Improved Dutch Court Gardener.) Leyden. 4to. p. 2S6, plates. 



1721. Du Vivier, Jean, supposed to be a French 

 Protestant refugee. 



Le Jardin de Hollande plants et garni da fleurs, de fruits, et 

 d'orangeries, &c. Le tout apres une longue experience, mis au 

 jour pour l'interet public. Amsterdam. 12mo. 



These plates contain plans of pits for growing the pine and 

 the vine ; a general plan of Driehoek, and figures of the pine- 

 apple, tuberose, and some varieties of oranges and lemons. The 

 book is very scarce; only a few having been printed. The only 

 copy we have seen is in the Banksian library. 



1750. Cuno, John Christian, of Amsterdam. De- 

 scription of his own garden, in Dutch verse. 



1752. Voorhelm, George, commercial florist at 

 Haerlem, of the firm of Voorhelm and Van ZompeL 



Traite sur la Jaccinthe. 



1760. Van Kampen, or Campen, et fits, florists, 

 at Haerlem. 



Traite des Fleurs a oignons. 8vo. with plates; translated 

 with this title. 



The Dutch Florist ; or, true method of managing all sorts of 

 Flowers with bulbous roots. 4to. 



1771. Knoop, Jean Herman, a gardener at Leu- 

 warden, in Friezland, died about the end of the 

 18th century. 



1. Pomologie, ou description les meilleures sortes de pommes 

 et de poires que Ton estime et cultive le plus, soit aux Pays-bas, 

 soit en Allemagne, soit et Angleterre. Amsterdam, fol. fig. 



2. Fructuologie, ou description des arbres fruitiers, ainsi que 

 des fiuits que Ton plante et qu'on cultive communement dans 

 lesjardins. Amsterdam, folio. 



1772. Poederle, Vaine. 



Manuel de l'arboriste du forestier Belgique, ouvrage extrait 

 des meilleurs auteurs anciens et modemes, et soutenu d'obser- 

 vations faites dans differens pays ou l'auteur a voyage. Brussels 

 and Paris. 2 vols. 8vo. 



1784. Burtin, Francis Xavier, a physician in Lor- 

 rain, author of some works on mineralogy. 



Memoire sur la question ; quels sont les vege'taux indigenes 

 que Ton pourrait substituer dans les Pays-bas, aux vegetaux 

 exotiques. Brussels. 4to. 



1805. Serrurier. 



Fruit Kundig Woordenbock. 2 vols. Amsterdam. 



1817. Musche, curator of the botanic garden at 

 Ghent. 



Hortus Gandensis. 12mo. Ghent. 



1817. Huthem. 



JMscours sur 1'etat ancien et modern de ragriculrure et de la 

 botanique dans les Pays-bas. Ghent. 8vo. p. 70. 



Subsect. 5. Works on Gardening, jniblished in Sweden, Noncay, and Iceland 3 exclusive 



of Translations. 

 7696. Scandinavian books on gardening are few, and chiefly by Linnseus or his pupils. 

 A knowledge of the present state of culture in Sweden is best obtained by reference to 

 the transactions of the Stockholm and Upsal Academies. 



the chair of medicine till his death in 1702, having 

 resigned the professorships of botany and anatomy, 

 some years before, to his son, of the same name. 



1. Prseside, Dissertatio : Horticultura nova Upsaliensis- 

 Resp. Gust. Lohrman. Upsalise. 4to. 



2. Catalogus Plantarum Horti Upsaliensis. 

 5. Campi Elysii, liber primus. Upsal, 1702. Liber secundus. 



Upsal, 1701. 2 vols. fol. 



This was to be a vast work, in which all the known plants in 

 the world were to be represented by wooden cuts, in twelve 70- 

 lumes, folio. The two first volumes however, were so unfcr- 



1643. Anon. 



Een ny traagarden Book. (A new garden book.) Printed 

 with Arv. Mansons Ortabook. Stockholm. 8vo. 



1664. Rudbeck, Olaus, a Swedish physician, was 

 the son of the Bishop of Vesteras, and born in 

 1630. While a student at Upsal, he discovered the 

 lymphatics in the liver, and other parts of the body ; 

 though his claim of priority was contested by Bar- 

 tholine. He also cultivated botany, and founded a 

 garden for the university of Upsal, where he held 



