Plants collected by Gédéon Bonivert (1651-1703) in the garden of Johan Stickers (1630-1701).

In 1665 Johan Stickers had established himself as apothecary in "De Witte Pluym" at the Grote Markt in Breda. In 1669 he bought a garden at the Gasthuiseinde, where he must have grown herbs. This purchase was followed by many others. In and around Breda, Stickers and his wife Anneken Geerit Claess de Gruyter acquired a number of houses, grounds, landed estates, meadows, orchards, and farms. In 1684 Stickers sold the garden on the Gasthuiseinde, but he retained a number of other estates where he could continue to grow medicinal herbs. In 1669 the Hortus Medicus of the Illustrious School at Breda was dissolved. This garden had been founded in 1646 by Johannes Brosterhuyen. After his death, in 1650, the English minister Samuel Johnson looked after the garden until 1653. Subsequently, the gardener Van Bosheyden took care of it until, in 1669, the Illustrious School and with it the Hortus was closed down. It is possible that Stickers had connections with the Hortus, or even that he acquired plants from it in 1669, but there exists no cogent proof.