LUSTGAERTEN IM) PELANTZUNGEN 
LustgartS ufi pflantzungen mit wunsamer zyerde artlicher 
und seltzainer veryr.iffung allerhand beum, kreiiter, pliimen 
und friichten, wylder und beymischer, kiinstlich unnd lustig 
zii ziirichten. Innhalt volgents registers. Wess sich ein 
hausvater mit seyner arbeyt das jar uber alle monat in son- 
derheit halten soli. [Augspurg, H. Steyner] 1531. 
This title, from copy in U. S. Dept. Agr., is similar to, but 
fuller than that given by the British Ifuseum for its edition of 
"Strassburg, 1530.” Boehmer, Bib. Script. Hist. Nat. 3(1):671, 
gives two imprints of 1530: ’’Strasburg, Egenolph" and "Augsburg, 
H. Stagner.” The latter is evidently identical with H. Steyner 
of the 1531 issue. His name, variously spelled, appears as pub¬ 
lisher of a few other elementary or popular works of the period. 
It is not known how many issues may have appeared under above 
title, but in 1546 the tract was reissued as "Pflantzbuchlin der 
lustgarten," with the rest of the title substantially as in the 
1531 issue, and the added phrase: "Auss Theophrasto, Plinio, Var- 
rone, &c." The text, however, was unchanged in this issue, tho 
some additions were made in a succeeding one. 
The contents of the tract, tho they may easily have been taken 
from some work on general agriculture, have not so far been iden¬ 
tified. The book suggests the rudimentary treatise on horticul¬ 
ture that accompanied an early French version of Crescenzi, and 
originally may have been appended to some such work. The matter 
may have been derived from classics like the Geoponika or Scrip- 
tores rei rusticae, as intimated in the "Pflantzbiichlin” (1546), 
but was probably supplemented by experience and practical knowl¬ 
edge of gardening, tho of a very crude kind, burdened with many 
of the superstitious notions of the age. 
