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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



in 1704 ; better known by the first edition of Vol- 

 taire's Steele de Louis XIV., which appeared under 

 his name, than by any of his other works. 



Catalogue nouveau de bons Fruits. l2ino. 



1754. Moer, M . 



Traits de la Culture des Renoncules, CEillets, Auricules, 

 ct Tulipe*. l2mo. 



1757. Bet trand, Francis, a citizen of Paris, en- 

 thusiastically attached to the country, but not being 

 able to retire to it, he amused himself by collecting 

 passages from the poets on the pleasures of a coun- 

 try life. 



Ruris deliciae. CoUectae ex melioris noise Latinis Gallicis- 

 que Poetis. Paris. 12mo. 



1757. Morel, N , of Lyons, born 172-. An 



ancient architect, who introduced the modern 

 style of gardening in France. He assisted Girardin 

 in laying out Ermenonville, and afterwards was 

 employed at the extensive concerns of the park of 

 Mereville. 



1. L'Art de Distribuer les Jardins suivant I'usage des Chi- 

 nois. Londres. 8vo. 1757. 



2. Theorie des Jardins, ou I'Art des Jardins de la Nature. 

 8vo. 1776. 



A new edition, enriched with a list of trees, their heights 

 and colors, by C. Morel, in 1803. 



3. Tableau Dendrologique, contenant la Liste des Plantes 

 Iiigneuses, Indigenes et JSxotiques acclimat^es ; la maniere 

 dont elles se projiagent, le terrain et I'exposition qui leur 

 conviennent. Lyons. 12mo. ISOO. 



1758. Gouges de Cessieres ; advocate at Laon. 

 Les Jardins d'Ornement, poeme. 8vo. 



1759. Bidet, M , of the agricultural academy 



of Tuscany, and officer of the royal household ; a 

 native of Champagne. 



Traite de la Culture des \'ignes. 2 vols. 12mo. 1751). 

 An improved edition by Duhamel du Monceau, in 1752. 



1760. Buchox, Pierre Joseph, a physician and 

 member of several societies ; born at Metz in 1731, 

 died in great distress at Paris in 1807. He wrote 

 above tliree hundred volumes relative to medicine, 

 agriculture, the veterinary art, and natural history. 

 A plant {Buchoxiana) was named after him by 

 L' Heritier. 



1. Catalogue Latin et Francois des Plantes, Viavces, &c. 

 pour la Decoration des Jardins, 1786, ISmo. 



2. Dissertation sur la Cedre du Libon, le Platane et le 

 Cytise. Par, 8vo. 1804. 



He printed numerous other dissertations of this descrip- 

 tion separately, which are all collected in the following 

 work. 



3. NoUTcau Traits Physique et Economique per forme de 

 Dissertations de toutes les Plantes qui croissent sur la Sur- 

 face du Globe. In fol. 1786. 2 vols. 



4. Lettre sur la Methode de s'enricher promptement, et 

 de conserver sa sante par la Culture des Vegetaux. 8vo. 

 1760. 



5. M^moire sur I'Hortensia, le Cestrau, &c. augment^e de 

 deux memoires sur le Lagerstrom et le Fothergill. 8vo. 

 1801. 



6. Monographie de la Rose, et de la Violette. 8vo. 1805. 



7. Oljservalions sur Quatre Genres d'Arbustes ; I'Azalia, le 

 Cedre, le Kalmia et le Rhododendron, que meritent d'etre 

 cultives dans les Jardins. 8vo. 1782. 



S. Prospectus d'Histoire Naturelle des Vegetaux, de la 

 France, &c. ; ou la Botanique, la Medicine, I'Agriculture, 

 le Jardinage et les Arts reunis dans le r^gne Tegetal de la 

 France. Metz, in 8vo. 1765. 



Buchoz was at this time botanical demonstrator to the 

 Royal College of Physicians, at Nanoy. 



9. Reflexions sur le Genre du Roblnier. 8vo. 



10. Traite de la Culture des Arbres et Arbustes qu'on 

 j)eut elever dans le royaume. 12mo. 1785, 



1760. Duchesne, Ant. Nicolas, professor of natural 

 history, in the central school of Versailles, author 

 of some geological works. 



1. Traite des Fraisiers. 12mo. 1760. 



2. Sur la Formation des Jardins. Par I'auteur des Con- 

 siderations sur le Jardinage. Paris. 8vo. 1775. 



1760. Thierrat, , a lawyer, and an officer in 



the woods and waters ; author of various tracts on 

 agriculture. 



Observations sur la Culture des Arbres a haute Tige, par- 

 ticulierement des Pommieis. 



1763. Bonnelle, Charles, born at Artois. 



Le Jardinier d'Artois, ou El^mens de la Culture des Jar- 

 dins Potagers et Fruitiers. 8vo. 



1763. Maupin, , valet-de-chambre to the 



queen ; author of a number of works on rural 

 subjects. 



1. 1/ Art de la Vigne, &c. 8vo. 1779. 



2. Almanach, ou Manuel de Vignerons de tous les pays. 

 Paris, 8vo. 1789. 



5. Avis sur la Vigne, &c. Paris. 8vo. 1786. 



4. I^ettre de 1' Auteur de la nouvelle Methode de cultiver la 

 Vigne, &c. Paris. 12mo. 1764.; 



5. Nouvelle Methode de cultiver la Vigne, &c. 12mo. Paris, 

 176.'!. 



A new edition, with additions, by Buchoz in 1799. 



1763. Mandirola, . 



Manuel du Jardinier. 8vo. 



1765. Chambray, Louis, Marquis de, born in 1703, 

 occupied himself much in cultivating the apple, and 

 in making cider. 



Art de cultiver les Pommiers, les Poiriers, et de fjiire les 

 Cidres, selon I'usage de Normandie. Paris. 12mo 



1765. Delille, Jacques, an eminent French poet. 



member of the French Academy, bom at Qermont, 

 in 1738, died at Paris in 1811. 



1. Les Jardins. 



There is an English translation by Mrs. Montolieu, in 1797. 



2. Le Jardin d'Eden, suivi d une Epitre a deux Enfans Voy- 

 ageurs. Paris. 18mo. 1817. 



1765. Dupuy, . 



Observationes sur la Culture de la Vigne. 



1765. Saint-Peravi,Guernieaude, born inBeauce, 

 author of some tracts on political economy and agri- 

 culture. 



Traits de la Culture de differentes Fleurs, des Narcisses, 

 Giroffliers, Tuberouses, Anemones, Jacinthes, Jonquilles, Iris, 

 Lis, et Amaranths. 12mo. 



1766. Lataille-des-Essarts, . 



M^moire sur le Safran. Orleans. 8vo. 



1766. Masse, Jean , advocate. 



1. Dictionnaire portatif des Eaux et Forets. 2toIs. 8vo. 



2. Traits des Bois et des differentes, Manieres de les semer, 

 cultiver, planter, exploiter, &c. Paris. 2 vols. 8vo. 1769. 



1767. Chartreuse, les reverend Peres de, de Paris. 

 The nursery of these reverend fathers was for a long 

 time the only one on the continent. 



Catalogue des Arbres a Fruits, les plus excellens, les plus 

 rares, et les plus estimees, qui se cuitivent dans les PtJpinieres 

 des P6res Chartreuse, avec la Description tant des arbres que des 

 fruits, &c. 8vo. 



1767. Schabol, Jean-Roger, a deacon, the son of a 

 sculptor, who occupied himself much in gardening, 

 and wrote several works, not elegant as to style, but 

 original, and entirely from his own experience. He 

 died in 1768, aged 77 years. 



1. Theorie et 1' rat ique du Jardinage, avec fig en tdille douce. 

 Paris. 3 vols. Vimo. 



This work was i>repared from the author's papers, and pi»l) 

 lished after his death, by Dezallier d' Argenville, who collected 

 all Schabol's works, and published them undei the title 

 " Manuel du Jardinier, ou Journal de son Travail distribu^ 

 par Mois. Paris. 12mo. 1772. 



2. Dictionnaire du Jardinage. 1 vol. 12mo. 1767. 



3. Observations sur les villages de Montreuil, Bagnolet, 

 Vincennes, Charonne, et villages adjacens, a deux lieues ou 

 environ .le Paris, an sujet de la Culture des Vegetans, avec 

 une idee de la Methode fju'on-y-emploie pour traiter les Arbres, 

 surtout les pechers. 1755. (Inserted in the Journal (Economiaue 

 for that year.) 



4. Elemens du Jardinage utile, ou Methode de cultiver avec 

 succ^s le Potager, et le Verger, d'apres les Experiences de 

 Roger Schabol, &.c. Metz, in 12mo. plates. 1786. 



1767. Wenckeler, Jean George, commonly called 

 Egner. 



Instructions sur le Jardinage, que renferment en abr^gd ce 

 qui a rapport a la Culture des Fleurs, des Fruits, et des 

 Legumes, &c. Paris. 8vo. 



1768. Saint Simon, Marquis de, aide-de-camp to 

 Prince de Conti ; died in 1794. He wrote also on 

 bees. 



Des Jacinthes, de leur Anatomic, Reproduction et Culture. 

 Paris. 12mo. 



1768. Tschoudi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Theodore, 

 Baron de,author of some articles in the Encycloptsdia, 

 and translator of Miller's Dictionary; died at Paris, 

 in 1784. 



1. De la Transplantntion, de la Naturalization, et du per- 

 fectionnement des V^g^taux. 8vo. 1778. 



2. Traite des Arbres rfesineux conif^res, extrait et traduits 

 de I'Anglais de Miller, avec des notes. 8vo. 1768. 



Essais sur legreff'e de I'herbe, &c. Strasbourg. 8vo. 1819. 



1769. Bearde, de V Abbaye, died young at Paris in 

 1771, author of a dissertation on a subject in political 

 economy, which obtained the prize of the academy 

 of St. Petersburg in 1769. 



Essais d' Agriculture, ou Tentatlves Physiques, &c. Par. 

 8vo. 



1769. Lariviere de, et M Dumoulin. 



Methode pour cultiver les Arbres k Fruits et pour les cle- 

 ver en treilles, par le Sieurs de Lariviere et Dumoulin. P^ris. 

 12mo. 



1769. Toustain-de-Limesy, Charles Francois, an 

 officer in a regiment of Champagne, under the old 

 regime, member of several agricultural societies. 



Memoires sur les Plantations. 



1770. Anon. 



Le Jardinier prevoyant, Almanach suivi des Considerations 

 sur le Jardinage. Paris. 16mo. 



This work has been improved, and continued to the present 

 time, and now appears annually under the title of 



Le Bon Jardinier, Almanach, avec Supplement, contenant 

 des preceptes generaux de culture, &c. par Rl. M. Loiseleur 

 des Longchamps, Vilmorin, et Noisette. Paris. 12mo. plates. 



1771. Herissant, Louis Antoine Prosper, born in 

 Paris in 1745. His father was a celebrated printer, 

 and the son was educated as a physician, but died in 

 1770, at the early age of twenty-five. 



Jardin des Curieux, ou Catalogue raisonne des plantes les 

 plus belles et les plus rares, soit indigenes, soil 6trangeres, avec 

 les noms Franjais et Latins, leur culture et les vertus par- 

 ticulieres de chaque esp^ce ; le tout prec^d^ de quelques notions 

 sur la culture en general. Paris. 8vo. 



This work is the descri])tion " raisonnee" of a fine garden 

 which Mr. Cochin, an ancient magistrate of Paris, had formed 

 at Chatillon near Bagneux, within two miles of Paris. Heris- 

 sant died before his work was completed, and it was finished 

 by M. Coquereau. 



1771. Latapie, , the translator of Wheatley's 



Observations on Modern Gardening; -to which he 

 added, a Discourse on the Origin of the Art, notes 



