Iardin de fleurs : contenant en soy les plus rares et plus excellentes fleurs que pour le present les amateurs dicelles tiennent en grande estime et dignite : divisees selon les quatre saisons de l'an
Iardin de fleurs is a 1617 French-language florilegium printed at Utrecht by Crispijn van de Passe and sold at Arnhem by Jan Janssoon, a flower garden book arranged by the four seasons for amateurs of rare blooms. Its plates are small engraved sheets of single flowers and fruiting sprigs, drawn in fine parallel hatching with the botanical names lettered in the margins. A designer could take their clean linear botanical drawing, the sparse vignette-like placement of several species on one page, and the tidy label typography.
