Le Gendre 
Pflan'fczung frueht-tragender b^ume, durch den Herm Le Gendre, 
priestem zu Henonville beschrieben, und aus dem frantzbsischen 
tfbersetzet, und mit einigen anmerckungen veiTnehreb durch Jpn Co- 
melin. (in Aengelen, Petrus van. Der «ber die zv;*dlff monaten 
des .jahrs Verst?*ndige garten-meister. Leipzig und WolffenbUttel, 
J. C. Meisner, 1734. p.[369]-494) 
The identity of the translator of Le Gendre is in doubt. The 
work forms an appendix to the "Garten-meister” of Van Aengelen, pre¬ 
sumably translated from Dutch into German by.Georg Graeflinger or 
GrSfflinger, of Hamburg. T’.vo other apnendixes in the same volume 
are certainly translations bjr Graeflinger from Bonnefons, "Le jar- 
dinier fran^ois". Haller, Bib. Bot. 1:511, says that Aengelen "v/as 
rendered into German in 1663 by Graeflinger, who later (l.c., p.5?0) 
made other translations, including the "Frantzbsischer kUchen-gSrt- 
ner" (1664) and "Frantzbsischer baura- und stauden-g^'rtner” (1666). 
But v;hile there is reasonable certainty that the earlier portions 
of this book were all translated by Graeflinger, it seems likely 
that the German version of Le Gendre is of much later dat©. 
Its title suggests that it mp.y have been done into German by 
Jan Comnielin, but this is explained hrr the fact that it was trans¬ 
lated from a Dutch version of Le Gendre actually mside by Commelin, 
and published in 1687 under the title, "Oeffening van vrugt-boomen". 
Commelin died in 1692, and there is no evidence that the German ver¬ 
sion vjas uublished before 1703, so it may not have been made until 
after his death. None of the biographical or bibliographical notes 
about Commelin mention this German translation, altho his Dutch ed. 
of Le Gendre seems to be generally known, altho probably rare. 
It is rny guess that the German translation of Le Gendre from 
Commelin* s Dutch edition vtpy have been made by the same person who 
did the German version of Van Oosten that was issued about the same 
time as this edition of Van Aengelen by the same nublisher, J« C. 
Meisner, 
(MF'M — March 1921) 
