Book I. 



FOREIGN LITERATURE OF GARDENING. 



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tour through the Orkney and Shetland islands, pub- 

 lished in 1806 ; and of various essays and papers on 

 natural history in the Scotch encyclopaedias : a 

 most benevolent and intelligent man, and a skilful 

 horticultural connoisseur. 



1. Notice of Mr. Knight's Doctrines regarding Fruit Trees. 

 (Cn/. A/em. hi. 2180 



2. The articles Horticulture in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, 

 and in the Appendix to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 



3. On the Gardens and Orchards of Scotland. (Printed in 

 Sir John Sinclair's General Report of Scotland, 1S14, vol. ii. 

 p. 45.; 



4. Ileport to the Highland Society concerning early Potatoes, 

 (fioi. Rep. of Scotland. App. vol. i.'p. 4190 



5. Journal of a Horticultural Tour throughout some parts of 

 Flanders, Holland, and the north of France, in the autumn of 

 1817, by a Deputation of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. 

 Drawn up by P. Neill, one of the Deputation. Edinburgh. Svo. 

 1823. 



1823. Harrison, Mr. Charles, F.K.S., gardener to 

 J. S. Wortley, Esq., Wortley Hall, near Sheffield, 

 Yorkshire. 



A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees. 

 Sheffield. Svo. 



Sect. II. Of the Literature of Gardening in Foreign Countries. 

 7691. Italy having been the country in which the revival of arts and literature took 

 place, was the first to produce books on agriculture and gardening : that of Crescenzio is 

 well known. The adjoining countries of France and Germany produced the next books ; 

 and those of Belon, Etienne, and Heresbachius, may be cited as among the best of the 

 16th century. Commelin is among the earliest Dutch authors on gardening ; Rudbeck, 

 his contemporary, one of the first who wrote in Sweden : both published after the middle 

 of the 17th century. Herrera, one of the few Spanish writers on agricultural subjects, 

 wrote about the end of the 16th century. The other countries of Continental Europe 

 have produced little worthy of notice ; and but few gardening books have hitherto appeared 

 in America. Of such as are most generally known in this country, or apparently most 

 interesting as illustrating the state of gardening at the time of their production, we give 

 the titles in die following subsections. 



Subsect. 1. Works on Gardening jntblished in France, exclusive of Translations. 

 7692. Of French works on gardening we have given a more copious list than of 

 those of Germany, because the French language is more generally known, and the 

 books not difficult to obtain. Many of them are in the libraries of the British Museum, 

 the Horticultural Society, or in the Banksian collection. One of the best books on the 

 state of culture in France is, the Nouveau Cours (V Agriculture, 13 vols. 8vo. 1810. 



1533. Champier, Symphorkn, a physician, a native 

 of Lyons, who distinguished himself in the battle of 

 Aignadel in 1509, and was made chevalier of the 

 two gilt spurs ; he wrote several works, and died in 

 1532 or 1540. 



Campus Elysius Gallia? amoenitate refertus, in quo quidquid 

 apud Indos, Arabes et Poenos reperitur, apud Gallos demon- 

 stratur posse reperiri. Lugduni. Svo. 



1535. Etienne, Charles, a physician of Paris, who 

 wrote several tracts on gardening and agriculture, 

 and first united them in one work in 1529, un- 

 der the title of Prcedium Husticum. Having 

 married his daughter to Jean Leibault, also a phy- 

 sician, he produced, with his son-in-law, the Maison 

 Rustique in 1570. 



1. De Re Hortensi. Par. 1535. Svo. 



2. Seminarium et Plantarium, Fructiferarium, fee. Tar. 

 1536. Svo. 



3. Vinetum, in quo Taria Vitium, Uvarum, &c. Par. 1537. 

 8vo. 



4. Arbustum, Fonticulus Spinetum, &c. Par. 1538. Svo. 



5. Sylva Fruticum Collis. Par. 153S. Svo. 



6. Pratum, Lacus Arundinacum. Par. 1513. Svo. 



All these were united in Pra-dium Rusticum. Par. 1554. 



7. L'Agriculture et Maison Iiustique, &c. Par. 1570. 4to. 

 This work has gone through upwards of 30 editions, the last 



entitled, La Maison Rustique, ou Cours complet d'Agricul- 

 tur, d'economie rurale et domestique, t'dition entierement re- 

 fordue. Paris, chez Lecrivain. 2 vols. Svo. 



8. Columella de Hortis. Svo. 1542. 



1546. Cognatus, the name adopted by Gilbert Cousin, 

 a canon of Nozerai, who died in 1567 in the prison 

 of Besancon, where he was shut up on account of 

 his religious opinions. 



De Hortorum laudibus. Basil, 1546. 



1552. Brossard, Davy or David, a Benedictine 

 monk at Mons, belonging to a family which still 

 exists in the Maine. 



L'Art et Maniere de semer Pepins, faire Pepinieres et Sau- 

 vageons ; enter en toutes sortes d'arbres, et faire vergers ; avec 

 un autre Traite de la maniere de semer Grains en Jardins, le 

 terns, et la saison de planter, replanter, rccueillir graines, et cul- 

 tiver toutes sortes d'herbes, &c. Mons. Svo. 



1553. Belon, Peter, a French physician, was born 

 in the province of Maine about the year 1518. He 

 travelled into Palestine, Greece, and Arabia, and 

 published an account of those countries in 1555, 4to. 

 He was assassinated at Paris in 1564 



1. De Arboribus coniferis, resiniferis, aliisque semper viren- 

 tibus: de Cedrino, Cedrio, Agarico, Resinis,&c. Paris. 4to. fig. 



2. Les Remonstrances sur le Default du Labour et Culture 

 des Plantes, et de la cognoissance d'icelles, contenant la ma- 

 niere d'att'ranchir et apprivoiser les Arbres sauvages. Paris, 

 J558. Svo. 



1560. Cornus, Georges, or Gorgole de Come, ac- 

 cotding to some writers a native of Florence. 



1. Maniere d'Enter, Planter, et Nourir les Arbres et Jardins, 

 avec quelques autres traites d'Agriculturc Paris. 8vo. 



I De la Maniere de Planter, Arracher, Labourer, Seiner et 



Einonder les Arbres Sauvages, Bois Haut et Bois Taillis 

 Paris. Svo. 



1560. Davy, P , that is, Pere David, or David 



Brossard. (See Brossard, 1552.) 



156-3. Palissy, Bernard de, born at Agen in 1524, 

 was a potter, according to some, and a China-ware 

 manufacturer, according to others. He cultivated 

 chemistry and the arts, and went beyond his age ; 

 he wrote various pieces, which have been collected 

 and published in several volumes. Those which 

 ! relate to agriculture and rural economy, are en- 

 tituled, Moyen de devenir riche. He died between 

 1602 and 1604. 

 Recepte veritable par laquelle tons les hommes de la France 



Ipourront apprendre a augmenter leurs Tresors, avec le Dessin 

 d'un .Tardin delectable et utile. Rochelle. 4to. 15C3. 

 1564. Mizauld, , born at Montlucon, in 1575 ; 



| died at Paris at an advanced age. He studied ma- 

 thematics and medicine with reputation ; but his 

 love of novelty, singularity, and astrology, made him 

 lose in succession the little glory which he had ac- 

 quired, his fortune, and his life. He published 

 many works, chiefly in Latin, the first of which, on 

 gardening, appeared in 1564 ; and all those which 

 relate to the subject have been collected and pub- 

 lished bv Caille, a physician, under the following 

 title : — 



Le Jardinage de Mizauld. Paris, 157S. 



1570. Leibault, Jean, a physician, born at Dijon, 

 died at Paris in 1596 ; author of various works on 

 medicine, and jointly with his father-in-law, Eti- 

 enne, of the Maison Iiustique. (See Etienne, 1535.) 



1580. Lundrie, . 



A vertisseiuent et maniere d'enter assurt5ment les Arbres en 

 toutes saisons, &e. Bourdeaux, in Svo. 



1586. J. P. D.M., that is, Jacques Pous, Doctor of 

 Medicine. 



Sommaire traite des Melons. Lyon de Tournes. Svo. 



1631. Gamier, Claude. 



La maniere d'enter, planter, et semer, av?c les rcmedes contre 

 les moucherons, Umacons, et autres betes qui gatent les lierbes 

 et jardins. Troves. 16mo. 



1638. Boyccau, Jacques, ecuycr; sieurdela Barau- 

 diere, intendant of the gardens of Louis XIII. 



1. Traite du Jardinage selon les liaisons de la Nature et de 

 l'Art, ensemble divers desseins de parterres, pelouses, bosquets, 

 et autres ornements servant a 1'embellissement des Jardins. 

 Paris, folio. 1638. Several times reprinted. 



2. Traite du Jardinage qui enseigne les Ouvrages qu'il faut 

 faire pour avoir un Jardin dans sa perfection, et la maniere de 

 faire des pepinieres, de greffer, enter, &c. 12mo. 1639. 



1651. Mollet, Andre, a relation and contemporary 

 of Claude Mollet, who was gardener to Henry IV., 

 and JLouis XIII. of France, as the other is said to 

 have been to J-imes I. of England. 



1. Le Jarlin de 1'laisir, contenant plusieurs Dessins de Jar- 



