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Brossard, David (cont.)

finds very little difference between the eds.
of 1543 and 1560. It is possible that Dupetit-
Thouars had in mind the unfortunate combination 
of Brossard's practical tract with
the old superstitions about gardening and
arboriculture that are credited to Nicolas
Du Mesnil in the "Quatre Traictez" of 1560.
As a matter of fact the 1543 edition has an
appendix, evidently by another person, giving 
some of the superstitious notions and
"receipts" that were disregarded by Brossard
himself, altho this appendix is not identical
with the pamphlet of Nicolas Du Mesnil in the
"Quatre Traictez" (1560)

Another garbled version mentioned by Dupetit-
Thouars is "La maison champestre et agriculture" 
(Paris, 1607) of Élie Vinet, which
is said to include much of Brossard's fruit
culture without any intimation of its original 
authorship. (MFW)

-----  L'art et maniére de semer pépins et de faire
pépinières. 1552. (Not located)

No satisfactory description of this has
been found. Dupetit-Thouars confirms the
date 1552 in the Bibl. Chronol. appended to
his "Recueil de rapports et de mémoires sur
la culture des arbres fruitiers" (1815). Gibault, 
Jour. Soc. Nat. Hort. France (1905),
p.726, refers to this as the 1st ed., and
Payne, in Gard. Chron. (3) 63:215 (1918)
speaks of Mascall’s "Booke of the arte and
maner, how to plant and graffe all sortes of
trees", which was published in 1572, as translated 
from that of Brossard, which had been
published twenty years earlier. (MFW)
        