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and situations. His disciple was Leonhard Pluknet, who 

 became known by drawings of very rare plants in his Alma- 

 gestum Botanicum, published in London 1697 and 1705, in 

 quarto. The garden for medicinal plants was superintended 

 by Jacob Petiver, who died in 1718, and whose works, pub- 

 lished in London 1764, in three folio volumes, also contain a 

 multitude of plates of plants. 



In the Netherlands, the most celebrated garden was that 

 at Amsterdam. Its rare plants were ordered to be engraved in 

 copper and described, by the chief councillor John Commelyn. 

 We have thus obtained the work entitled Horti medici Am- 

 stelodamensis rariorum plantarum descriptio et icones, pul>- 

 lished at Amsterdam in 1697 and 1702, in two volumes fo- 

 lio. The garden at Leyden, laid out in 1577 by Bontius, was 

 now superintended by Paul Hermann. His Catalogus Horti 

 Lugduno-Batavi, published at Leyden 1687, in octavo, and 

 Paradisus Batavus, at Leyden 1705, in quarto, are valuable 

 works. The most remarkable plants of the Dutch gardens 

 were ordered to be engraved with great care by J acob Breyn, 

 a merchant in Dantzig, and he has described them in his Exoti- 

 carum plantarum centuria, published at Dantzig in 1678, in 

 folio. Among the Dutch gardens, that which was supported 

 by the Bishop of Eichstadt, under the inspection of Basilius 

 Besler, an apothecary at Nurnberg, was very celebrated. 

 A description of its rare plants is contained in a magnificent 

 work, entitled Hortus Eystettensis, published in 1613 in 

 folio. 



Among the gardens of Italy, that at Bologna was most cele- 

 brated, — the superintendant of which, Jacob Zanoni, caused to 

 be engraved and described a multitude of rare plants, in his Is- 

 toria Botanica, published at Bologna in 1675 in folio. What 

 was denominated the Catholic Garden, the owner of which 

 was the Pope, and its superintendant Francisco Cupani, was 

 remarkable for a multitude of rare plants, natives of Sicily. 

 The great work entitled Panphyton Siculum, which contains 

 plates of these plants, is now only, in some of its fragments, an 

 ornament of libraries. 



