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. 

 (Co/. Mem. iii. SIS.) 



2. The articles Horticulture in the Edinburgh Encycloptedia, 

 and in the Appendix to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 



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

 Sir John Sinclair General Report of Scotland, 1814, vol. ii. 

 p. 45.J 



4. Report to the Highland Society concerning early Potatoes. 

 (G-u. Rep. of Scot/and. App. toI. i. p. 419.) 



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. Neil!, one of the Deputation. Edinburgh. 8vo. 

 1823. 



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

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

 Yorkshire. 



A Treatise on the Culture and "Management of Fruit Trees. 



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 

 olace, 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 

 16fh 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 die lGth 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 the following subsections. 



Subsect. 1. Works on Gardening published 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 a" Agriculture, 13 vols. 8vo. 1810. 



1533. Champier, Sytnphorien, 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 

 15.32 or 1540. 



Campus Elysius Gallise amcenitate refertus, in quo quidquid 

 Spud 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 15-9, un- 

 der the title of Pr&dium Busticum. Having 

 married his daughter to Jean Leibault, also a phy- 

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

 Bustique in 157c. 



1. De Re Hortensi. Par. 1535. 8vo. 



2. Seminarium et Plantarium, Fructiferarium, &c. Par. 

 1536. Svo. 



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

 8vo. 



4. Arbustum, Fonticulus Spinetum, &c Par. 1538. 8vo. 



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



6. Pratum, Lacus Arundinarum. Par. 1513. 8vo. 



AH these were united hi Praedium Rustieum. Par. 1554. 



7. L'Agriculture etMaison Rustique, &c. Par. 1570. 4to. 

 Tiii* work has gone through upwaids of 30 editions, the last 



entitled, La Maison Ru-Mque, ou Cours complet d'Agricul- 

 tur, d'economie rurale < t doniestique, edition entieremtnl re- 

 fo"due. Paris, chez Leciivain. 2 vols. Svo. 



8. Columella de Hortis. Svo. 151-2. 



1546. Cognatus, the name adopted bj Gilbert Cousin, 

 a canon of Nozerai, who died in 156/ in the prison 

 of Besancon, where he was shut up on account of 

 his religious opinions. 



De Hortorum laudibus. Bail, 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- 

 rageons ,- 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, recueillir graines, et cul- 

 tiver toutes sortes dlierbes, &c. .Mons. 8vo. 



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: deCedrino, Cedrio, Aearicr>, Kesinis, ..Vc. Paris. 4to. fig. 



2. Les Remonstrances eur le Default du Labour et Culture 

 des Pl.ir:te;, et de la cognoissance d'icelles, contenant la ma- 

 nure dV.rsYauchir et apprivoiser les Arbres sauvages. Paris, 



1540. Camus, Georges, or Gorgole de Come, ac- 

 cording to some writers a native of Florence. 



. re d' Enter, Planter, et Nourir les Arbres et Jardins, 

 avtc q-.:elques autres traites d'Agriculture- Paris. 8vo. 

 , 2- De la Maniere.de Planter, Arracher, Labourer, Semer et 



et Bois TaUlis 



1550. Davy, P , that is, Pere David, or David 



Brossard. (See Brossard, 1552.) 



1563. Palissy, Berflard de, born at Agen in 1524, 

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

 manufacturer, according toothtrs. 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 ia>4. 



Recepte veritable par laquelle tous les homrr.es de la France 



Sourront apprendre a augmenter leurs Tresors, avec le Dessin 

 'un Jardin delectable et utile. Rochelle. 4to. 1563. 



15;>4. Miznuld, , 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 by Caille, a physician, under the following 

 title : 

 LeJardinage de Mizauld Paris, 1578- 

 157ft JjtSbautt, 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 Bustique. (See Etienne, 1535 ) 

 1580. Lundrie,. 



AvertLsseiiient et maniere d'enter assortment les Arbres en 

 toutes saisons, &c. Bourdeaux, in Svo. 



158ft J. P D.M., that is, Jacques Pous, Doctor of 

 Medicine. 

 Sommaire traite des Melons. Lyon de Toumes. Svo. 

 1631. Gamier, Claude. 



La maniere d'enter, planter, et semer, av?c les remedes conrre 

 les moucherens, limacons, et autres betes qui gatent les-herbes 

 et jardins. Troyes. 16mo. 



1638. Boyceau, Jacques, ^cuycr ; sieur de la Barau- 

 derie, intendant of the gardens of Ixmis XIII. 



1. Traite du Jardinage selon les Rai^ons de la Nature et de 

 l'Art, ensemble divers desseins de parterres, pelou-es, bosquets, 

 et autres omements servant a rembellissement des Jardins. 

 Pari*, folio. 1638. Several times reprinted. 



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

 faire p-'ir avoir un Jardin dans sa perfection, et la maniere de 

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



1651. Mollef, Andre, a relation and contemporary 



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



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



have been to Jimes I. of England. 



1. Le Jarlin de Plaisir, contenant plusieurs Desains de Jar- 



