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Aristote, "jardinier de Puteaux"

Gibault, in Jour. Soc. Nat. Hort. France (1905).
p.732. says: "Aristote, jardinier de Puteaux -- un
pseudonym non dévoilé-- a donné une petite Instruction
ou art de cultiver les fleurs, 1674, qui a eu
plusieurs éditions." But there is no confirmation
of this date by other bibliographers, and it seems
possible that this work has sometime been confounded 
with the anonymous translation of Mandirola, actually
first printed by De Sercy in 1674.

Instruction, ou l 'art de cultiver toutes sortes de fleurs,
avec des instructions pour cultiver et greffer les arbres fruitiers, 
par Aristote, jardinier de Puteaux.  Paris, C. de Sercy, 
1677.   (Bib. Nat. Paris)

Both Lelong, Bib. Hist. France, 2. éd., 1:200;
and Seguier, Bib. Bot., p. 336,  indicate that this
also includes the "Observations sur le livre du Curé
d 'Henouville, ou de l ’Abbé de Pont Chateau de Camboust 
de Coaslins, jardinier de Port Royal, which is
not noted in Cat. Bib. Nat. Junk, Cat.47, no. 53, once
offered a copy of the "Instruction" with collation "2
pts. 152 p.", probably obtained by adding together
the separate pagings of these two works. Presumably
the "Observations" were also by Aristote, but the
methods of De Sercy leave this open to doubt.

Instruction pour le jardin potager. Avec l 'art de cultiver
les fleurs, et pour cultiver et greffer les arbres fruitiers.
Paris, C. de Sercy, 1678. 89 p. (Dept. Agr.; Bib. Nat. Paris; Brit. Mus.)
Brit. Mus. says "2 pt."

-----  2. éd. Paris, C. de Sercy, 1697. (Bib. Nat. Paris)

"A quaint old book respecting the cultivation,
month by month, of the vegetables used in cookery;
pp. 147 and table of contents beyond, followed by
an extract from the royal certificate." Quoted by
L. M. Thompson, N. Y.

Aristoteles (384-322 B.C.) De plantis libri II.  See Geoponika.
Basileae [1539]
        