London’s ‘curious gardens’ inspired German botanist
Published between 1750-73, Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum (‘A selection of plants from natural specimens nurtured in London’s curious gardens’) is considered the most important botanical work ever printed in Germany.
Christoph Jacob Trew (1695-1769), a wealthy doctor and amateur botanist from Nuremberg, hired loca…