[Venette, Nicolas] (cont.) 
Miltitz, Bib* Bot*, col*292, gives imprint; 
Paris, 1685, with note, "Traduit de I'anglois,” 
which is also evidently an error* There is no 
trace of a French edition of 1685, and the work 
was not originally written in English; but there 
was an English translation printed at London in 
1685* So far as I can discover, the only inde¬ 
pendent French edition was that of 1683, altho 
the first part of the work was several times re¬ 
printed with a slightly changed title in La Quin- 
tinye, "Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et 
potagers” (Amsterdam, 1697, et seq*) I have not 
fo^d the second part, on fruits and their uses, 
reprinted or translated, save in the English ed, 
of 1685* The German version was probably made 
from the reprint with La Quintinye* 
This appears to be one of the rarest of the 
early French pomological works, as there is no 
trace of it in Seguier or the 1st ed. of Prit- 
zel, while Miltitz, as already noted, quotes 
the French title correctly enough, but with an 
incorrect date and misleading note* The author 
was unknown to Miltitz and to Haller, who gives 
the title in rather condensed form in Bib, Bot* 
Is618, citing "Burette" as source* In Dupetit- 
Thouars, Bib, Chronologique, the work is given 
under 1683, as "Venette* Sous anonyme, L’art de 
tailler les arbres* Sercy* Paris*" Few copies 
of the original edition have been located* The 
reprint of the first part, of course, is found 
with La Quintinye in many libraries* 
——- L'art ou la maniere particuliere Sc seure de 
tailler les arbres fruitiers* Avec un dictionnaire des 
termes dont se servant les jardiniers, en parlant des ar¬ 
bres* Amsterdam, H, Desbordes, 1699* 19 p* (With 
La Quintinye, Jean de* Instruction pour les jardins 
fruitiers et potagers* Amsterdeua, 1697* (Dept* Agr*; 
Arn* Arb*; Brit* Mus*') - 
_ (In La Quintinye, Jean de* Instruction pour 
les jardins fruitiers et potagers* Paris, P* Ribou, 
1716* Tome 2, p*535-562) (Dept* Agr*) 
