La Jardinier botaniste, 1705» 1712. Sea Baanier, Pierre Charles 
Louis. 
La Jardinier d‘Artois. I 763 at saq. Saa Bonnelle, Ch. 
LB JARDINIER FIDELE 
La Jardinier fidbla, qui enseigne la manihra da semer 
dans toutes les saisons da I'anni^a touta sorte da graines 
& plantes, tant fleurs que potagbras. Paris, 1685* 
Title given in full by Boehmor, Bib. Script. 
Hist. Nat. 3(1):688; Haller, Bib. Bot. 2;689; 
Miltitz, Bib. Bot. col.292; and Lelong, Bib. 
Hist. France, 2. 4d., Iil98« 
Boehmer also gives under same title an ad. of 
1689, which confirms the suspicion roused by the 
similarity in titles, that the "Trait^ de la ma- 
nibre de semer dans toutes les saisons de l*an« 
n4e toutes sortes de graines & plantes", Paris, 
1689 and 1710 , is a later edition of "Le Jardi¬ 
nier fidble". The 1689 ed. is published by De 
Sercy, that master of plagiarists, and the I 7 IO 
issue by his successor, Claude Prudhomme. 
Lelong contributes an interesting feature in 
connection with the original "Jardinier", giving 
"Le Levre" as name of its printer or publisher. 
The script capitals "F" and "L" are rather eas¬ 
ily confounded, and in case Lelong‘s spelling 
had been misprinted with an "L" instead of an 
"F", it is possible this work might be connected 
with the "Sieur de Le Febvre", a Paris seedsman 
who flourished in the last part of the 17 th cen¬ 
tury, according to w. Roberts, Gard. chron. (3) 
71:54 (Fob. 4 , 1922 ). cat. Bib, Nat. Paris gives 
his "Catalogue de toutes sortes de graines, tant 
potagbl*es, quo legumes ... graines de fleurs et 
oignons de fleur", a pamphlet of 4^ P*t without 
a date. In view of De Sercy's habit of publish¬ 
ing without giving credit to the actual authors, 
it seems quite likely that (1) Le Febvre's "Ca¬ 
talogue" was reissued by De Sercy as "Le Jardi¬ 
nier fidble"; or ( 2 ) the latter may have been a 
separately paged tract, to which the "Catalogue" 
was originally appended. 
