Book I. 



FRENCH WORKS ON GARDENING. 



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theology, to indulge his inclination for natural his- 

 tory. To gratify this passion, he made numerous 

 journeys in Europe and Asia ; after which he be- 

 came professor of physic in the royal college, and of 

 botany in the king's garden at Paris, where he died 

 Dec. 28. 1708. His botanical publications are nu- 

 merous; the most important is his Institutiones rei 

 Herbarue, which method of arrangement was fol- 

 lowed in this country as well as in France, till sup- 

 planted by the systems of Linnaeus and Jussieu. 



Observations sur laNaissance et la Culture des Champignons. 

 Mem. de l'Acad. de Paris, 1707. 



1712. Angran de Rueneuve, a lawyer. 



Observations sur l'Agriculture et le Jardinage, pour servir 

 d'Instruction a ceux qui deiirent de s'y rendre habiles. Paris. 

 2 vols, 12mo. 



1712. Boullay, , canon of Orleans. 



Maniere de bien cultiver la V'igne, de faire la vendange et le 

 Vin dans le Vignoble d'Orleans, utile a tous les autres Vignobles 

 du Royaume. 2d edit, in 12mo. 



1713. D'Argenuille, DezaUier Ant. Joseph, born in 

 Paris, where ne died in 1765. He held a public si- 

 tuation, and his principal study was natural history. 

 The articles Hydrographie and Jardinage in the 

 Diction/mire Encyclopedique were furnished by him. 



1. La Theorie et la Pratique du Jardinage, ou Ton traite a 

 fond des beaux Jardins de Plaisance et de Proprete", contenant 

 plusieurs Plans et Dispositions generates des Jardins, nouveaux 

 dessins de Parterres, de Bosquets, de Boulingrins, Salles, Cabi- 

 nets, &c. Paris. 4to. 1713. 



Only the first edition of this work appeared with the name of 

 the author, who afterwards adopted that of Le Blond, by whose 

 name the work is best known. It was translated into English 

 by John James of Greenwich, architect, and entitled 



The Theory and Practice of Gardening, containing all that 

 relates to fine gardens, &c. &c 



2. Dictionnaire du Jardinage. Liege, 1783. 



Besides the above, he remodelled and published the works of 

 Roger Schabol, after his death. (See Schabol, 1767.) 



1716. Ressons, Jean-Baptiste Deschiens de, born at 

 Chalons ; died in 1736. He was lieutenant-gene- 

 ral of artillery, and member of the Academy of 

 Sciences ; united a taste for arms with that for 

 study, and excelled in both. 



Maniere de greffer les Arbres des Fruits a Noyaux, sans 

 perdre aucun terns, en sorte qu'un arbre qui aura fait de* 

 tres-mauvais fruits l'annee prece'dente en pourra porter de 

 tres-bons l'annee suivante. Paris. 8vo. 



1719. LemaiStre, M , curate of Joinrille. 



Fruitier de la France, ou Description des Fruits, a Noy- 

 aux et a Pepins, qui se cultivent dans le royaume ; avec une 

 dissertation historique sur l'origine et les progres des Jardins. 

 4to. 



1722. Saussai, le Sieur de, gardener to the Prin- 

 cess of Condt*, at Anet, afterwards inspector of the 

 gardens of the Duke of Bourbon. 



Traite des Jardins. Paris. 12mo. 



1730. Hamel du Monceau, Henry Lewis du, a dis- 

 tinguished naturalist, was born at Paris in 1700. 

 He became a member of the Academy of Sciences, 

 to whom he communicated a number of papers on 

 vegetable physiology. He died at Paris, where he 

 was dean of the academy, in 1782 



1. De l'importance de l'Analogie, et des Rapports que les 

 Arbres doivent avoir entre eux pour la reussite et la dure'e 

 des greffes. (Me~m. Acad. Par. 1730. 31.) 



2. Sur les Plantes qu'on peut e"lever dans l'Eau. (Mim. 

 Acad. Par.) 



3. Traits des Arbres et Arbustes, qui se cultivent en 

 France en pleine terre. Par. 1755. 2 vols. 4to. 



4. Physique des Arbres, ou il est traite de PAnatomie des 

 Plantes, et de l'Economie Vegeiale ; avec une Dissertation 

 sur l'Utilite des Methodes de Botanique, et une Explication 

 des Termes propres a cette science. Par. 1758, 2 vols. 4to. 

 With numerous copperplates. This is his most important 

 work, and on it his merit as a Physiologist chiefly rests. 



5. Traite complet des Bois et des Forets. Par. 1758-67. 

 G torn. 4to. 



6. Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de l*>ur Cul- 

 ture. Par. 1760. 4to. 



7. Art du Charbonnier. Par. 1761. fol. 



8. De l'Exploitation des Bois, ou moyen de tirer parti des 

 taillis demi futayes et hautes futayes. Par. 1764. 2 vols. 4to. 



9. Du Transport, de la Conservation, et de la Force du 

 Bois. 1767. 4to. 



10. Traite des Arbres Fruitiers. Paris, 1768, 2 vols. 4to. 

 With fine coloured plates of fruit-trees, &c. This is his 

 most splendid work. 



1732 Guerin, M . 



Traite" de la culture parfaite de l'Oreille d'ours. 12mo. 



1735. Jussieu, Bernard de, born at Lyons in 1699 ; 

 practised physic, and became curator of the plants 

 in the royal garden of Paris, and superintendant of 

 that at Trianon. In this last garden he first dis- 

 played the celebrated system which bears the family 

 name, and has been so much perfected by his ne- 

 phew, Antoine de Jussieu. All the members of this 

 family have devoted themselves to science. 



Catalogue des Arbres et Arbrisseaux, qui se peuvent elever 

 aux environs de Paris, &c. Paris. 12mo. 



1737. Thouin, Andrt, le Chevalier de, Professor 

 of Culture in the University of Paris ; author 

 of various memoirs on gardening and agriculture, 

 inserted in the French encyclopaedias, dictionaries, 

 and periodical works, and in the transactions of 



their learned bodies : an excellent man, and ea- 

 teemed one of the first gardeners in Europe. 



1. Memoire sur l'Usage du Terreau de Bruyere dans la 

 Culture des Arbrisseaux el Arbustes Strangers, regardes jus- 

 qu'a present comme delicats dans nos jardins. (Me"nu de 

 l'Acad. des Sc. de Paris, 1787, p. 481-495.) 



2. Sur les A vantages de la Culture des Arbres, Strangers 

 pour l'emploi de plusieurs Terrains de differente nature aban- 

 donnes comme steriles. (Mem. de la Soc. R. d'Asricult. d* 

 Paris, 1786, p. 43-49.) 



3. Description du Jardin des semis du Musee d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, de sa culture et de ses usages. (Annates du Mus. 

 d'Hist. Sat. torn. 4.) 



4. Description de l'Ecole d'Agriculture pratique du Musee 

 d'Histoire Naturelle. (An. du Mus. torn. 10, 11, & 12.) 



5. Memoires sur de* nouvelles Modes des greffes. (Ibid, 

 torn. 12, 13, 14, &c.) 



6. Notes sur la Culture des Palates et des Pom mes de terre. 

 Sur la Culture des Plantes Alpines. (Ibid. torn. 3. p. 183.) 



7. Me'moire sur la Culture des Bruyeres. (Ibid. torn. 2. 

 and 3.) 



8. Memoire sur la Culture des Dahlias, &c (Ibid. torn. 3.) 



9. Monographic de greffes, ou Description technique de 

 diverse* sortes de Greffes, employees pour la multiplicatim 

 des V^g^taux. Paris, 1821, in 4to. avec 13 pi. in lithog. 



10. Instruction sur l'Etablissement des Pepinieres. Parts. 

 8vo. 



11. Notes sur les Semis du Pin de Riga. Paris, Svo. 



12. Note sur la Culture et les Usages du Pin Laricio de 

 Corse. Paris. Svo. 



1739. Buffon, George Louis le Ckrc, Count de, 

 was the son of a counseller of the parliament of 

 Dijon, and born at Montbard, in Burgundy, in 

 1707. He studied at Dijon, and was intended for 

 the law, but his inclination lay to the sciences, par- 

 ticularly astronomy and geometry ; and it is said he 

 was never without Euclid's Elements in his pocket. 

 At the age of twenty he made the tour of Italy, 

 after which he visited England. On his return he 

 divided his time between Montbard and Paris, and 

 in 1735 published a translation of Hale's Vegetable 

 Statics, which was followed by one of Newton's 

 Fluxions. In 1739 he was appointed superintend- 

 ant of the royal garden and cabinet, which by 

 his care were considerably enriched. He was a 

 member of the French Academy, treasurer of that 

 of Sciences, and in 1771 he was created a count. 

 His private character was that of a libertine, and 

 he was extremely vain of his person and talents. 

 " The works of eminent geniuses," he would say, 

 "are few ; they are those of Newton, Bacon, Leib- 

 nitz, Montesquieu, and my own /" He died of the 

 stone in 1788. His only son was guillotined in 1793. 



1. Memoire sur la Conservation et le Retablissement des 

 Forets. (Mem. Acad. Par.) 



2. Memoire sur la Culture des Forets. (Id. ib. 1742.) 

 1739. Riviere, de la, and du Moulin. 



Methode pour bien cultiver les arbres il fruit, et pour 

 elever les treilles. Utrecht. 8vo. 



1741. Bazin, Gilles-Augustin, a physician of Stras- 

 bourg ; author of some tracts on insects, trees, &c. ; 

 died in 1754. 



1. Observations sur les Plantes, et leur analogie avec les 

 Insectes. 



2._Traite de l'Areroissement des Plantes. 8vo. 



1745. De Combles, a native of Lyons, began to 

 write on agriculture in 1745 ; and after having led 

 a life of agitation, he retired to a country-house near 

 Paris, where he gave himself up to gardening. 



1. Traite de la Culture des Pechers. 12mo. 



2. L'Ecole du Jardin Potager. 2 vols. 12mo. 



In 1802, these two works were published together in 2 vols. 

 12mo. which made the fifth edition of L'Ecole du Jardin 

 Potager. 



1746. Ardenne, Jean Paul de, born at Marseilles 

 in 1689, where he became a priest and superior of 

 the congregation of the oratory. He had a country- 

 house at Fortcalquier, where he devoted great part 

 of his time to the culture of flowers and to deeds 

 of charity. He was reckoned among the most fa- 

 mous florists of his time. He died in 1769. 



1. Traite des Renoncules. Paris, 1746. 8vo. 



2. Traite des Tulipes. Plates, Aug. 1760. 12mo. 



3. Traite des CEillets Plates. Avignon, 1763. l2mo. 



4. Traite des Jacinthes. Illustrated with plates. Avignon, 

 1763, Svo. 



5. Traite de l'Oreille d'Ours, 8vo. Avignon, 1759. 2 voK. 

 12mo. 



6. Annee Champetre. Lvons, 1769. 3 vols. 12mo. 



1750. Roux, Augustin, born in 1726; died in 

 1776; Member of the Royal Society of Agricul- 

 ture. 



1. Traite" Physique de la Culture et de la Plantation des 

 Arbres, avec la maniere de les exploiter, de les debiter, &c. 

 Paris. 12mo. 



2 "_T rail ^ de la CuIturs "« Arbres a ouvrier. 12mo. 



1751 Desbois, Francis Alexander Aubert de la 

 Chesnaye, born at Ernayon the Maine in 1699, died 

 in an hospital in Paris in 1784. One of the most 

 indefatigable compilers of the 18th century. 



Dictionnaire Universelle d'Agri«ulture et de' Jardinage. 

 Paris. 2 vols. 4to. 



1753. FrancheviUe, Joseph Dufresne de, of the 

 academy of Berlin, born at Dourlens in Piccardv 



