Somerset, Mary (Capel), duchess of Beaufort (1630?-1714) 
James Britten writes in The Garden, 84:428- 
429 (Aug*28,1920) of the Duchess of Beaufort’s 
collection of flower drawings by Everard Kicki- 
us and Daniel Frankcom, from plants grown at 
Badminton at the beginning of the 18th century, 
many of which have heretofore been supposed to 
have been introduced to cultivation at later 
dates. The Duchess is commemorated by the genus 
Beaufortia, R. Brown, in Aiton, Hort. Kew., Ed. 
2, 4:418, 
Sommer, Johann Michael (d,1794) 
Anleitung auslA’ndische weinstd’cke in Wirtemberg imd an- 
deren gegenden Teutschlands vortheilhaft zu pflanzen xmd 
ganze weinberge davon mit nuzen anzulegen. Stuttgart, 
Steinkopf, 1786. 79 p. (Kat. Landb. Bib. K^^benhavn 
(1921), p.866) 
Kayser, 5:270, gives the following imprint: 
’’Manh., L6*ffler, 1786. (Steinkopf in Stuttg.)” 
Simon, Bib, Vin,, p.ll9, gives "Mannheim, 1785- 
91," Dochnahl, p.l50, has "Stuttgart, 1786," 
—2, aufl, [Stuttgart?] 1789, (Dochnahl, p.l50) 
..... Samt einem verzeichnis auserlesener fremden sor- 
ten von weinstoken, welche derselbe in seinem eigenen wein¬ 
berge gepflanzet hat; und einer tabelle derjenigen reben 
und stoke, die bey ihm um beygesezten preiss zu haben 
sind, 3., sehr verm, aufl, Stutgart, J, B, Mezler, 
1791, 102 p, (Dept. Agr,) 
