Florentine Garden

at last all must perish, unless the Botanist should diligently apply himself every year to the collection of seeds and to new sowing at some time.

Therefore, that the Florentine Garden might nourish and preserve long-lived plants, I immediately thought it prudent to diligently collect seeds not only of the plants which had survived, clear through the work and investigation of Micheli Pier Antonio Micheli, an Italian botanist, but also of those with which the Garden would be increased in the future, with which both the succession of plants already perishing might be provided for, and I myself, as much as I could, might satisfy the desires and convenience of Friends, to whom I owe the most excellent Plants and seeds liberally communicated to me.

Behold, therefore, the List of Plants of this Garden, which have happily yielded seeds this year, with a few exceptions of certain ones growing spontaneously around Florence, whose seeds my Friend Master ANTONIUS LAPI Antonio Lapi, Pharmacy