Sterbeeck, Francis van (cent*) 
Den verstandighen hovenier, over de twaelf maenden van't 
jaer, Beschrijft hoe men op de beste en bequaemste maniere 
sal hoven-thuynen, lust-hoven en boomgaerden verordineren, 
bereyden, beplanten en bezaeyen. Als oock vermeerdert met 
en noodighe en gherieflijoke medecijn-winckel daer in veel 
nutte en natnerlijcke secreten zijn te vinden voor alder- 
hande ghebreken. Door F, V. S. 2. druck, vermeerdert ende 
verbetert* Antwerpen, 1667. 139 p. (Arn. Arb.) 
It also contains; "Medecyn-winokelj oft Aen- 
hanghsel van den verstandighen hovenier, om met- 
ter haest te vinden raedt en remedie voor alder- 
hande accidenten en ghebrecken der menschen,” 
p.113-139. 
Bradley Bib. 3;106, suggests: ^Is possibly 
a Belgian ed. of Aengelen, Petrus van. Verstan- 
dige gardenier. 1663.” This theory finds con¬ 
firmation in statements of Sterbeeck himself, 
who in the preface to his Citricultura (1682) 
denied all connection with the Verstandige ho¬ 
venier and a certain ”Koock-Boeck” which had 
been attributed to him. ^Oln his Theatrum fun- 
gortrai, oft Tooneel der oampernoelien (1675), 
Sterbeeck says that in 1668 he had published 
a little tract on mushrooms, which was bound 
with this cook book, as both were published in 
Holland. For this reason many persons had cred¬ 
ited him with being author of the ”Koock-Boeck” 
as well as a book called Den Verstandigen Hove¬ 
nier, likewise printed in Holland, but that he 
had neither at that time nor later published 
anything besides the tir^r Tractaet der Ftmgi. 
It would be difficult to identify this work 
with Aengelen’s Verstandige hovenier, without 
comparison between them; but there were Dutch 
editions of Aengelen at Amsterdam, 1661, 1662, 
1663, and 1665, and one supposedly published in 
1668, which was ’Verbetert door J. C.” dt is 
easy to see that Sterbeeck’s Tractaet der Fun¬ 
gi might be bound with, and even give his name 
to a contemporary edition of this book. (MFW) 
- 9. druck. Gend, Gimblet [1775] (Bib. Hulthem- 
iana, 1:433) 
This was entered tonder title, with a note, 
”Attribu6 A Fran 59 is van Sterbeeck, pretre A 
Anvers." 
