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Kstienne, composed several short treatises 

 on agronomy, horticulture, botany, and 

 sylviculture, which, together with 'his vo- 

 cabulary of natural history, were fre- 

 quently reprinted. These various treatises, 

 afterwards collected into one, constituted a 

 great work entitled " Praedium Rusticum," 

 which his son-in-law, Lie'baut, popularised, 

 translating it into 'French, with several 

 additions, and calling it the " Maison Rus- 

 tique." Gardening, became the fashion in 

 France, and every one was anxious to pos- 

 sess some new plant or some flower brought 

 from a great distance. The royal gardens 

 at Fontainebleau and Chambord were laid 

 out at great expense, and made models of 

 what, as it was then considered, kitchen, 

 fruit, and flower gardens ought to be. The 

 gardens of the Chateau d'Alen9on, laid out 

 under the instructions of Marguerite, sister 

 of Fran9ois I., were specially famous. More- 



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Fig. 91. Border of a Pago in Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, " Vie de St. Jr9me." In the 

 Library of SI. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



