La Chesn^e Monsterettl, Charles de 
Slightly abridged, and translated into Dutch, 
this forms one of the two tulip treatises in Van 
Oosten's "De nieuwe nederlandse bloem-hof" (Ley¬ 
den, 1700 ); and as such was translated into Eng¬ 
lish in "The Dutch gardener" (I 703 ), into German 
in "Der niederlandische garten" (I 706 ), and back 
into French in "Le Jardin de Hollande" (I 714 ) 
The lists of tulip names, and other portions 
of this book, have been largely borrowed by var¬ 
ious contemporary floricultural writers, (MFW) 
— Seconds edition, Rouen, Chez Louys du Mesnil, 
1658 . 250 p, (Brit. Mus.) 
—— (ini Traitez de Jardinage, Paris, I 673 . v,2) 
(Brit, Mus.) 
Lelong, Bib, Hist, France, 2. 4d,, 1:201, re¬ 
cords eds, of 1654 1673 * ■*’he latter probably 
corresponding to the Brit, Mus, copy in "Traitez 
de jardinage", idiich comprises a half dozen 17 th 
century works on gardening and fruit growing, 
Ardbne, "Trait4 des tulipes" (I 760 ) cites ed, 
of 1673 ? under title: "Fleuriste franjois", 
——- Traits des tulipes, Avec la manibre de les bien 
cultiver, leurs noms, leurs couleurs, & leur beaut^, Pa¬ 
ris, C, de Sercy, I 678 , II 7 p* (Dept, Agr,; Bib, Nat, 
Paris; Brit. Mus.) 
"Un mauvais plagiat du Florists frangois de 
La chesn^e," — Gibault, fitude (1905), p,734» 
Ardbne, "Traits des tulipes" (I 760 ), remarks 
that above work is a reprint of La Chesnee, say¬ 
ing that if the edition of the Florists frangois 
of Monstereux were exhausted, it would be worth 
while to reprint it, but that he [Sercy] should 
have recognized the actual author, not copied 
the work servilely without giving him credit, 
Lacourt (La Court van der Voort), Pieter de (d,1739) 
In the "Extracts from the literary and scien¬ 
tific correspondence of Richard Richardson", ed, 
by D, Turner (Yarmouth, 1835), P*329-330, there 
is mention of "LaCour of Leydpn", who had found 
a method of propagating the tttberose, and on p, 
384 , a letter of J, F, Gronovius (Dec, 7, 1739) 
says "Mr, La Court, who hath that curious garden 
near this town, dyed a few months ago", and also 
refers to his publication of the "Aenmarkingen", 
