_ firft in Netherland, is not well = 
This Ordering and Managing Hep. . 
5 Fo Ca, 
 rins relates to us of the Noble 
yy Netherlandith Hefperides. 15 
who raifed and ordered chem 
known to us, 
+ © Teis certain that this Work isin 
few years come to perfection here; — 
that our Fore-Fathers an hundred 
~ Years ago, knew but little of it, 
appears by the Writings of Carolus 
Stevensinhisimprovement of Land, 
and others more. 
(lufins is, according to my Opi- 
nion, among the firft, who hath 
brought thefé Trees into Nee — 
therland: forthere be as yet to 
this day fome Limon and Orange 
Trees in being in the Univerfiry 
Garden at Leyden which were rai- | 
fed by him from theSeed but only — 
~ Wild and unfruicfal, without an y pie es 
Inoculation. 
Lib.a. 
hath been known in Flanders and cup.iq. 
Brabant thefe many Years,as Ferras\ 
Sener 
Or Netherlandifh Hefperides. “415 
- whofe Fame and Renown fpread 
it felfnot only in Netherland; but 
~ alfo in divers’ other Countries ; fo 
thar the fame was vifited by many 
Eminent Princes,and hath had the 
Honor that the moft Iluftrious 
Prince (ofomus de Medicis, Great. 
Duke of Florence, exc. was taken © 
with great admiration at this Hee 
fperial Plantation, when he beheld 
the perfect knowledge of this 
-ancreale 5 
moft ExceHent orderer, and mae 
nager.. © | Ho: 
No lefs Eminent in this Science 
-was the Sieur William Vanden Hewe mv 
vel Merchant at Amfterdam, by 
whofe means this affair did much 
and all Spectators 
were ftirred up with an inflamed 
defire of thefe Golden Fruits, 
~ wherewith the He/perial Gardens 
of thefe Perfons abounded ; for 
through may years experience , 
they attained to the defired end, 
- We 
Sewer Guilielmus de Blafero at’ Gaunt 
_ in Flaunders,: who was moft emi- 
_. + -hentin this Science, and doth with _ 
pa be Belgidetnit Oe 
rt 
Admiration take notice of it. 
And fuch there are as yet many 
found at-this day in. Brabant at 
Bruffels, and Antwerp, where the 
moft Trees are raifed from the 
on 
Seed , and brought to perfecti- 
Pleafant Italy hath fick farnithed 
our Netherland out of her Hefperides ss 
and communicated to us of her - 
-. Fruits. 
‘The right knowledge of. their. 
Ordering is found out in Holland, 
by the Sieur John Roeteis, in his : 
life time Secretary of the Cit 
_ Amiterdam, whole Lond iedes [ 
this Science hath excelled above 
all others, a$ the truch-hath affu- 
ted ta many eye-witnefles yet by 
his immature death is this Noble 
; Ain|terdam Hlefperides difanulled, 
na whole 
16 ~The Belgick 
We fhall give thera the Honor, 
and are certainly perfwaded that 
they muft be numbered among 
the firft Inventors; Viz, among — 
thofe that have brought this Work 
to perfection among us. 
And we thought good to 
inferr their names here, To 
keep them ont of the Grave 
of Forgetfulnefs, and to make 
them flourifh among pofteriry, 
as Long as the evergreen Afpect — 
_ of our Hefperides fhall be ac- 
ceptable, and delightfome to. , 
all true) Lovers and Practicers — 
thereof. 
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