Hortus Floridus in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum Icones ad vivam veramque formam accuratissime delineatae

Crispijn de Passe was just twenty-five when he published the first part of Hortus Floridus, or “A Flowery Garden.” The book is a season-by-season tour of the flowers in Dutch gardens, with each bloom shown in lively and lifelike detail; de Passe even includes bugs here and there among the flowers. In the 1610s the Dutch were just beginning their centuries-long love affair with tulips, and the book includes a bountiful array—in the section devoted to spring, of course.