Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu libri quatuor
Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum cultura et usu is a Latin treatise on citrus cultivation by Giovanni Battista Ferrari, published in 1646 by Hermann Scheus, a work for scholars and gardeners. Its plates show citrus fruit drawn whole and halved on the page, each with a ribbon bearing a Latin name, offering a designer clear, sober botanical studies of fruit in pale ink.
