
          Ballon (supposed author)

Nouvelle instruction facile pour la culture des figuiers
(cont.)

-----  Traité complete de la culture du figuier. Paris,
Lamy, 1782. (Re, Diz. Rag. Lib. Agr. 4:148-149)

Issued anonymously. Altho Re does not mention
the author of the original book, which itself was
practically anonymous, he says this is nothing but
a new title prefixed to a book printed 90 years before, 
i.e. 1692; and his remarks on the contents
further identify this "Traité" with the ’’Nouvelle
instruction facile pour la culture des figuiers”
(Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1692), commonly attributed 
to Ballon and Granier, altho the preface of
the book indicates that they merely revised it

Re discusses the 1782 reprint at some length.
He commends its directions for fig culture, but
considers its chapters on flowers worth very little 
because many better works on the topic have
been published in intervening years. While this
book is certainly a reissue of the ”Nouvelle instruction”, 
we cannot tell whether it is an exact
reprint or a garbled form. (MFW)
        