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[Cardinal, Guillaume]

Le Jardinier royal; qui enseigne la maniere de planter,
cultiuer, & dresser toutes sortes d'arbres; auec une briefue
methode pour bien greffer tous fruicts á noyau: ensemble le
moyen de faire pepinieres, & esleuer des arbres pour espaliers 
& contr'espaliers, buissons, & toutes sortes d'autres
arbres fruictiers. Paris, C. de Sercy et I. Guignard,
1661. 308 p. (Dept. Agr.; Arn. Arb.)

The authorship of this book was long in doubt,
but in 1903 Georges Gibault published a note in
Le Jardin, 17:382, under the title; "Le veritable
auteur du 'Jardinier royal’, ouvrage attributée á
Arnauld d 'Andilly", in which he tells of the discovery 
of a MS in the Bibliothèque S. Geneviève,
which gives conclusive proof of its origin. This
MS was "Composé par Mre Guillaume Cardinal, chanoine 
et official de Beauvais", and its dedication, 
dated 1654, is signed "C. Cardinal, frère
de 1 'auteur". One attribution, to abbé Gobelin,
was due to the fact that the privilege for the
1677 issue included titles of a number of works,
and the name of the author of the last title in
the list, likewise the only author's name in the
entire privilege, was Gobelin; hence the "Jardinier
royal" has sometimes been crudely attributed to
him. (MFW)

-----  Paris, C. de Sercy, 1671. 253 p. (Dept. Agr.; Bib. Nat. Paris)

-----  Paris, C. de Sercy, 1677. 224 p. (Dept. Agr.;
(Arn. Arb.; Brit. Mus., under title; Bib. Nat. Paris)

-----  Paris, 1679 . (Miltitz, Bib. Bot., col.289)
        