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, LUSTGAERTEN DND PFLAMTZTOIGEN (cont.) 
One of tlie possibilities is that it was written to supplement 
a book of medical lore such as the ’’Regimen sanitatis.” In E, S. 
Rohde’s ’’Garden of herbs” (1926) there is opposite p.98 a plate 
credited to Rlatina, ”De honesta voluptate" (1530)* It represents 
a gardener at work among his plants, and is almost identical with 
the title vignette in the ’’Lustgarten” of 1531; hence it seems as 
if there might be some connection between the two books. The 1530 
edition of Rlatina in the U. S. Dept. Agr. does not, however, con¬ 
tain any figures, and there is nothing in the contents of the work 
to warrant the theory that the ”Lustgarten” may be related to it. 
A close comparison of Miss Rohde’s plate with the woodcut in the 
"Lustgarten” shows they are not identical; but their variations 
suggest that either one may have been copied from the other, or 
both of them from some earlier original. 
Whether it is a direct translation or compilation from another 
work, or an original, if very elementary treatise, this is at any 
rate the earliest independently issued German book on gardening 
that has thus far come to light. 
(MFW-May 19,1936) 
Zapf, Georg Wilhelm, "Augsburgs Buchdruc’icergeschichte" (Augs¬ 
burg, C.A.Stage, 1788-91), 2: 197, gives date of Steyner’s first 
edition; "Augsburg, durch Heinr. Stayner an dem v. Nov. MDXXX.” 
U.S. Dept. Agriculture copy has colophon; ’’Augspurg durch Hein¬ 
rich Ste3mer am xxi. tag Novembris des M.D.XXXI. Jars”, and is 
therefore Steyner’s second issue. I have no data for the date 
of Egenolf’s edition, Strasburg, 1530, to show whether it ante¬ 
dates that of Steyner issued in the same year. (MFW-2/21/49) 
