Florentine Garden (1751) - Page 20

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omitted, so that this might be portable; I wished it to be more elegant, so that it might reach the hands of foreigners, so that they might acquire this same booklet.
Finally, since I am Secretary to both the Bologna Society and the Florentine Society, I have taken care to add to the same, at the end of this Catalog, a list of foreign Academicians of Flowers, as a monument of gratitude toward the Illustrious and most Learned Men, by whose trade our same Society flourishes, and to whose kindness the Florentine Garden owes much of its growth.

A decorative woodcut tailpiece ornament featuring a central floral arrangement or a stylized plant with symmetrical scrolling foliage and leafy branches.