Book I. 



FRENCH WORKS ON GARDENING. 



Ill' 



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 or' 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 

 Herbaria?, 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. 



( lliservations sur la Naissance et la Culture des Champignons. 

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



1712. Angran de liueneuve, a lawyer. 



Observations sur l'Agriculture et le Jardinage, pour servir 

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

 2 vols. 12mo. 



1712. Boullaij, , canon of Orleans. 



Maniere de bien cultiver la Vigne, 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' Argenville, Dexallier Ant. Joseph, born in 

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

 tuation, and his principal study was natural history. 

 The articles Hydrographie and Jardinage in the 

 Dictionnaire Encyclojxdique 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. 



Onlv 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 Jardinace. Liege, 1783. 



Besides the above, he remodelled and published the works of 

 Roger Schabol, after his death. (See Schabcl, 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 grefTer les Arbres des Fruits a Noyaux, sans 

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

 tres-mauvais fruits l'annee prce<lente en pourra porter de 

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



1719. Lcmaistre, M , curate of Joinville. 



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

 aux et a Pepins, qui se cultivent dans le rovaume ; 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 duree 

 des grettes. (Mem. Acad. Par. 1750. 31.) 



2. Sur les Plantes qu'on peut elever dans l'Eau. (Mem. 

 Acad. Par.) 



3. Trait<5 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 l'Anatomie des 

 Plantes," et de l'Economie Vegetale ; avec une Dissertation 

 sur l'Utiiite 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. 

 6 torn. 4to. 



6. Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur Cul- 

 ture. Par. 1760. 4to. 



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



8. De PExploitation 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, 176S, 2 vols. 4 to. 

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

 most splendid work. 



1732. Guerin, M . 



Traite de la culture parfaite de POreille 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, Andre, 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 es- 

 teemed one of the first gardeners in Europe. 



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

 Culture des Arbrisseaux et Arbustes etrangers, regardes jus- 

 qu'a present comme delicats dans nos jardins. (Hem. de 

 l'Acad. do Sc. de Paris, 1787, p. 481-4'J5.) 



2. Sur les Avantages de la Culture des Arbres, Strangers 

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

 donnes comme steriles. (Mem. de Is Hoc. II. d'Agricult. de 

 Paris, 1786, p. 43-49.) 



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

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

 d'Hist. Nat. torn. 4) 



4. Description de PEcole d'Agriculture pratique du Musee 

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



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

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



6. Notes sur la Culture des Palates et des Pommes de terre. 

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



7. Memoire 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 

 diverses sortes de Greffes, employees pour la multiplication 

 des Vegelaux. Paris, 1821, in 4to. avec 13 pi. in lithog. 



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

 8vo. 



11. Notes sur les Semis du Pin de Riga. Paris, 8ro. 



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

 Corse. Paris. 8vo. 



1739. Buffon, George Louis le Clerc, 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 Elernents 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.) 



1737. Riviere, de la, and du Moulin. 



Methode pour bien cultiver les arbres a fruit, et pour 

 elever les treilles. Utrecht. 8vo. 



1741. Baxin, Gilles-Augustin, aphvsician 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'Arcroissement des Plantes. 8vo. 



llio. 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. 

 1-imo. which made the fifth ediUon of L'Ecole du Jardin 



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 diet! in 1769. 



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



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



V* rai ? des ?-' llets Plates. Avignon, 1763. 12mo. 

 ,.^ 3 T ' aue des Jacinthes. Illustrated with plates. Avignon, 



6 . - -4 nnfe Champetre. Lyons, 1769. 3 vols. 12mo. 

 ,-i' 00 - J? "*, Augustin, born in 1726 : died in 

 17/6 j Member of the Royal Society of Agricul- 



1. Traits Physique de la Culture et de la Plantation des 

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

 x^aris. l ^mo. 



2. Traits de la Culture des Arbres a ouvrier. 12mo. 

 17ol 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. 

 Pa?ir i 2""k re 4to 7niTerselIe d ' A S ric ulture et de Jardinage. 

 1753. Franchevtile, Joseph Dufresne de, of the 

 academy of Berlin, born at Dourlens in Piccardy 



