2-658-554 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

I Cupressus arbor; Italian cypress originally from Asia, brought by the Phoenicians and now considered native to Italy; II Spartium Hispanicum; usually more bare-stemmed than shown here; plant which likes very dry ground; Besler was an apothecary in Nuremberg and was in charge of the gardens of the Prince Bishop near Eichstat;