The Dutch chemist and physician Boerhaave, was director of the botanical garden in Leiden and taught many notable students at the University of Leiden, among them Linnæus. The volume cited here was first published in 1727, compiled from the notes of Boerhaave's students. This "very new edition" boasted that it was "purged of inaccuracies," and contained "a very accurate index."

The botanical garden in Bologna dates back to 1567.

The garden of Florence was revived in the early part of the 18th century by the Botanical Society of Florence. As prefect of the garden, Micheli compiled a list of plants, which was published posthumously in 1748, along with his successor's history of the garden.

Morison was a Scottish physician in exile in France until the Restoration, when he was named the first professor of botany at Oxford. He also directed the University's botanical garden, first established in 1621. While still in France, Morison had written about the botanical garden at Blois.

Tilli was director of the venerable botanical garden of Pisa from 1685 until his death. He evidently drew some of the plates in this volume, which featured detailed foldout engravings of the garden's layout as well an alphabetical catalog of the plants it contained.