Florentine Garden

...through the investigations
of the most excellent JOANNES TARGIONI original: "JOANNIS TARGIONII",
discovered and illustrated, all were
brought into the Garden and thrived.
Almost all were likewise transferred
here which the Apennines, the Gargano,
the Apuan rocks, the Nursian, the
Argentario, the Baldo, the Tyrolean,
the Aequicolan, the Campoclaren, and
the Amalphitan mountains produced
as rare and peculiar to themselves.
But, which is to be lamented, in the
succeeding years almost all perished;
nor was it to be expected otherwise,
after the most famous MICHELI
was snatched from us by a premature
fate, and his most deserving successor
JOANNES TARGIONI was distracted by
clinical, physical, and other most
learned occupations and dismissed
the care of the Garden, to which was
added the laziness of the gardeners,
in whom one necessarily had to place
much trust, and their ignorance of
botanical science: Therefore, it is no
wonder if very many, collected with
proper labor, finally lacking a
cultivator, perished.