Mandlrola, Agostino (cont.) 
- [Lib.III. French] Instruction facile, pour con- 
noistre toutes sortes d’orangers et citronniers. Paris, 
C. de Sercy, 1674. 125 p. (Dept. Agr.; Arn. Arb.; 
Brit. Mus.; Bib. Nat. Paris) 
Translated from Mandirola*s 3d book, with ad¬ 
dition of the "Traits pour la taille des arbres" 
(p.97-121), and the "Secret admirable pour faire 
venir toutes sortes de plantes, arbres, fruits, 
fleurs, & legumes, d*une prodigieuse grosseur" 
(p.122-124). The book is usually credited to P. 
Morin, altho the Brit. Mus. enters under title, 
saying the only parts of its contents actually by 
that writer are the two appendixes noted above. 
Altho perhaps by Morin, they were more probably 
written by Sercy himself, or by someone employed 
by him to edit his horticultural publications. 
The "Privilege du Roy" at end of this little 
tract was granted May 12, 1673, and gives Sercy 
the right to print various horticultural works, 
including the "Remarques necessaires pour la cul¬ 
ture des fleurs" of Morin, who is the only author 
mentioned, hence all the works not clearly iden¬ 
tified were credited to him. Even Gibault, Jour. 
Soc. Nat. Hort. France (1905), p.732, unhesitat¬ 
ingly accepts Morin’s authorship of this work. 
The "Secret admirable pour faire venir toutes 
sortes de plantes" was reprinted in the Journal 
des Scavans, 1675, p.215-216 (Boehmer says, t.4, 
p.224), whence it was translated and printed in 
Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, 10(no.116):356, 
as "A way of making all sorts of plants, trees, 
fruits, flowers, and legums, grow to an extraord¬ 
inary bigness ... Here inserted for experiment". 
Both in the original and the translation the ti¬ 
tle is almost as long as the recipe itself. 
(MFW) 
-- - Paris, C. de Sercy, 1680. 125 p. (Dept. 
Agr.; N. Y. Bot. Gard.; Brit, ^his.; Bib. Nat. Paris) ^ 
_ _ Paris, 1689. (Lindley Lib.) 
See also Nouvelle instruction pour la culture des 
fleurs. Amsterdam, 1697 et seq. 
