Carl Friedrich Förster

Almost nothing is known about this German horticulturist.

No copyright (public domain)

This is a book of historical value and probably the starting point of the German cactus literature. It is hard to read because it was printed using gothic (fraktur) letters. There is no picture.

• A pdf file containing both the original and an “interpreted text” can be downloaded as 31753002545959.pdf file¹⁾, which is hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.²⁾
  

The OCR ³⁾ is not reliable with gothic letters, and the interpreted text is often a meaningless series of letters. Thus, searching text is risky. Fortunately, Förster used latin letters for many latin names. The text is easier to read than the reprint of the '80s.