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Colutius, Franciscus, "Verzinensis". See Scriptores rei rusticae. 
[Venice, 1472]

Colville, James. See Cockburn, John. Letters ... to his
gardener 1727-1744.  Edinburgh, 1904.

Combles (or Combes), de (d.1770?)

Gibault, Étude sur la bibliographie et la littérature 
horticoles anciennes (1905), p.735, says
the name should be spelled "Combes”, and Brit.
Mus. Cat. enters under this form, but the Cat.
Bib. Nat. Paris and a majority of bibliographers
use the first spelling. The "Epitre" of "Ecole
du jardin potager" (1749) is signed "De C***",
but the author's name does not appear in titles
of his books until probably some time after his
death. (MFW)

L'école du jardin potager, qui comprend la description
exacte de toutes les plantes potageres, les qualités de
terre, les situations & les climate qui leur sont propres,
la culture qu'elles demandent. Par l'auteur du Traité de
la culture des pêchers. Paris, A. Boudet, 1749. 2 v.
(Bib. Nat. Paris; Dept. Agr.)

Mentioned by Gibault, Étude (1905), p.735; reviewed
in Ann. Nouv. Littér. June 1750, and Gött.
Gel. Anz. 1750, p.1019-1021 (Dec.1750)

-----  Nouv. ed. Paris, A. Boudet [et] P. A. Leprieur,
1752. 2 v. (Bib. Nat. Paris; Dept. Agr.; Wageningen 22929 )

Has same paging as 1st ed., 1749.

-----  Paris, 1770. 2 v. (Hirschfeld (1782) p.32)

-----  3. éd. Paris, 1780. (Rousset, Cat.27, 3753)

-----  4. éd. augmentée du "Traité de la culture des
pêchers". Paris, Savoye, 1794. 2 v. (Bib. Nat. Paris)

-----  4. éd. augm. de la culture des pêchers et de la
manière de semer en toute saison. Lyon [n.d.] 2 v.
(Weigel, Lager-Kat.(n.f.) 165, no.162)

Weigel's supplied date, ca.1760, cannot even
be approximate, as there is record of a 3d ed.,
1780, and 4th ed., 1794, both pub. at Paris, in
2 vols. each. (MFW)
        