Appendix.] Dr. Noehden on the Works of Sickler. 7 



This person is the Reverend John Volkmar Sickler, pastor, or 

 clergyman, at Klein fahnern, in the Dutchy of Saxe Gotha, between 

 the towns of Erfurth and Langensalza. He was born in the year 

 1744, at Giintersleben, near Gotha, and has during 46 years, that 

 he has been in his present situation, devoted his leisure hours to 

 Horticulture, and particularly to Pomology. His example encou- 

 raged others to attend to their orchards, and contributed greatly to 

 the cultivation of fruit, both in his neighbourhood, and the adjoin- 

 ing country. He himself had formed three nurseries for fruit trees, 

 one of which contained no less than 8000 grafted trees. This 

 nursery, from which he supplied different parts of the country, and 

 even distant places, was entirely destroyed in the year 1806, by the 

 French, after the battle of Jena. Ney's corps bivouacked in it : 

 and after his departure, scarce a vestige remained of what the place 

 had been before. Another nursery of Mr. Sickler's upon a smal- 

 ler scale, in which there were 1500 grafted trees, had a similar 

 fate with the former. It was destroyed by the Cossacks, after the 

 battle of Leipzig, in the year 1814. He has at present the satis- 

 faction of seeing about 1200 full grown, and productive fruit trees 

 on his own land, planted and reared by his own hand. This me- 

 ritorious Horticulturist has published a great work on Pomology, 

 consisting of no less than 48 volumes, 8vo. each volume containing 

 about 30 sheets of letter press, and many engravings : the title of 

 it is « the German Fruit Gardener' (Der Teutsche Obstgartner) ; 

 it treats of all the productions of fruit trees, that grow in Germany, 

 affording a comprehensive survey of the cultivation of fruit trees, in 

 general. The number of plates, many of which are coloured, ex- 

 ceeds 1200. The work was begun in 1792, and carried on to the 

 year 1806 : it was published at Weimar. Besides this great work, 

 Mr. Sickler has written many small tracts on Pomology. He is 

 likewise the author of a General Farming Dictionary (Allgemeines 

 okonomisches Lexicon,) in 14 vol. 8vo. and of a Botanical Diction- 

 ary (Botanisches Wbrtebuch) in one vol. 8vo, 



