Le Peletier (or Le Pelletier), Claude (I 630 -I 7 II) 
Comes rusticus ex optimis latinae linguae scriptoribus 
excerptus. Parisiis, I 692 . 235 P» (Dept. Agr.; Bib. 
Nat. Paris) 
Gives plans of estates, including vineyards 
and olive plantations. 
- Parisiis, I 708 . (Brit. Mue.; Bib. Nat. Paris) 
Brit. Mus. gives under title, but Le peletier 
while strictly a compiler or editor, is commonly 
treated as author of this book. 
Le Pelletier de Frepillon. See Pelletier de Prepillon. 
Le Roy, Benigne 
Instruction du plantage et propriet^z des meuriers et 
du gouvernement des vers A soye ... par les entrepreneurs 
dudit plant, Blnigne Le Roy, Jacques de Chabot, Jean Van- 
der Vekene et Claude Moullet. Paris, D. Le Clerc, l6o5» 
56 p. (Bib. Nat. Paris) 
Lelong, 1:200, has slightly different title; 
and Seguier, p.392, gives another ed. with same 
title and printer, but date I 615 , probably an 
error for the above, tho it may be a reissue, 
-- Lyon, Leonard Plaignard, l695» 91 P« (Bib, 
Nat. Paris; Brit, Mus.; Mo. Bot. Gard.) 
Published without author's name; and entered 
under title in Brit, Mus. Cat. Pritzel, 1st ed. 
no ,11645 (after Barbier), credits to Le Roy, 
See also M^moires 8c instructions pour 1'etablissement 
des meuiers, Paris, l603* 
Leroy, Pierre 
Catalogue des arbres, arbrisseaux et arbustes cultivis 
dans ses jardins et pipinibres d'Angers. 1790. (Leroy, 
Andr^, Diet. Porno1. 6:322) 
Noted by Gibault, ^tude (19o5)» P«739» Pierre 
Leroy must have been Andre's father, who founded 
the nursery in I 78 O, and died about I 808 , when 
Andr4 was 7 years old. See notices of A. Leroy 
in Rev. Hort. 47:376-377 (1975); and Jour. Soc. 
Nat. Hort. France (2) 9:551-554 (1875)* 
