
          170

Combles (cont.)

-----  [English] A treatise upon peach trees, and
their species, both as to culture, aspect and soil. With
the different seasons for pruning, and directions for
performing it ... Tr. from the French.  Dublin, Printed
by J. Exshaw, 1768. 125 p. (With: Wildman, Thomas.
A treatise on the culture of peach trees, London, 1768)
(Brit. Mus.; Mass. Hort. Soc.; Roy. Agr. Soc.)

Attributed to Thomas Wildman by Cecil, Hist.
Gard. Eng., 2d ed., p. 364, but identified as
work of Combles by C. H. Payne in Gard. Chron.
(3) 63:216 (1918)

-----  [German] Herrn Decombe Ausführliche beschreibung 
von denen pfirsich-bäumen ... aus dem frantzösischen 
in das teutsche übersetzt. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 
In der Knochisch- und Esslingerischen buchhandlung,
1747. 112 p. (Dept. Agr.)

-----  -----  Neue auflage. 1767. (Dochnahl, p.33)

-----  -----  Nürnberg, Bauer und Raspe, 1789.  (Dochnahl, 
p.33; Koehler, Ant.-Kat. 32, nr.389)

Imprint, "Nürnberg, C. Weigel und Schneider,
1789", from another source, is probably identical 
with this.

-----  [Italian] Trattato della coltura de' persici
e degli alberi da frutto si aggiunge in fine il metodo
di fare le semanze de' fiori, ed in particolare quelle
de' garofoli con la maniera d'avere per mezzo di seme,
del fiori doppj e di rara bellezza. Venezia, Nella
stamperia Graziosi, 1792. 240 p. (Dept. Agr.)

Pages 3-178 are trans. of Combles, "Traité
de la culture des pêchers"; "Della coltivazione
degli alberi da frutto", p.181-210; "Memoria
distesa da Giusee Piccioli", p.213-240.
        