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Besnier, See Traité  ou abrégé curieux et très utile touchant
les jardinages (par M. B.) Paris, 1706 .

Besnier, H. (or Henri?), "médecin".

Cat. Bib. Nat. 98:107, indicates that
"M. B. ***", editor of the 1721 and other issues
of Liger, "La nouvelle maison rustique", is H.
Besnier.  Brit. Mus. Cat. gives him as "Besnier,
Henricus". Altho he appears as editor of Liger
as late as the 11th ed., 1777, it is likely
that the later issues are mere reprints. Besnier
is also given by Cat. Bib. Nat. and by
Haller, Bib. Bot. 2:5, as editor of Tournefort,
"Traite de la matière médicale" (1717 ), and by
Cat. Bib. Nat. as editor of "Le jardinier botaniste" 
(Paris, 1705 ), usually credited to
Pierre-Charles-Louis Besnier. It would appear
that he must have flourished very early in the
18th century. (MFW-Jan.1934)

Besnier, Pierre Charles Louis (1668 -1761)

Le jardinier botaniste, ou La maniere de cultiver
toutes sortes de plantes, fleurs, arbres & arbrisseaux,
avec leur usage en médecine; ensemble toutes les plantes
étrangeres qui peuvent être propres pour l'embellissement 
des jardins. Divisées et mises en ordre alphabetique 
par Mr. Besnier. Paris, C. Prudhomme, 1705.
341 p. (Dept. Agr.; Arn. Arb.; Bib. Nat. Paris; Brit. Mus.)

-----  Paris, 1712 . 212 p. (Miltitz, Bib. Bot.
col. 296; Seguier, Bib. Bot. p.341;  Lelong, Bib. Hist.
France, 2. éd., 1:98)

Betham-Edwards, M.  See Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham
        