NOUVEAU TRAITS DB LA CULTURE DBS MELONS 
Nouveau traits de la culture dee melons* Sous un climat 
tel qu*est des Provinces Unies* Amsterdam, H* Desbordes, 
1697» 6 p* (with La Quintinie, Jean de* Instruction 
pour les Jardins fruitiers et potagers* C2* <d# CAmsterdam* 
1697* Tome 2) (Dept* Agr* &c*) 
Owing to the fact that it received wide dis¬ 
tribution with editions of the "Instruction" of 
La Quintinie, this treatise has generally been 
erroneously attributed to him* Evelyn, however, 
in his English translation of La Quintinie, "The 
compleat gard*ner" (I693)* includes instructions 
for "The raising of melons, omitted in the French 
editions"* These had been received in a letter 
from La Quintinie himself, and are similar to 
those printed In Phil* Trans* Roy* Soc* London, 
1669* but entirely different from the "Nouveau 
trait^"* The latter* as indicated by its title, 
and still further in the note under next entry, 
was intended for use in the Low Countries, and 
was not of Parisian origin* Nevertheless, it 
was included in subsequent editions of La Quin* 
tinie, and usually paged consecutively with the 
other contents, as Paris, P* Ribou, 1716* t*2* 
P*529-534» «^nd Paris, Quillau, 1739* t*2, p.555- 
560* Altho this tract on melon culture is gen¬ 
erally associated with editions of La Quintinie, 
or garbled works derived from them, it is found 
to have an entirely different origin, as shown 
in the following: 
Nouveau trait^ de la culture des melons sous un 
climat tel qu’est celuy des Dix-Sept Provinces* (in Da- 
huron, Ren4* Tralt^ de la tallle des arbres* cell et 
Liege, J* P. Broncart, 1699• p*127-142) (Dept. Agr*) 
Altho the issue of 1699 Is the earliest that 
has been indexed, it is likely, that the previous 
edition of Dahuron, Liege, I692, which has exact¬ 
ly the same paging, must also include it; and if 
we accept the entry of Miltitz, Bib* Bot*, col* 
293, for the first edition, Celle , 1690, includ - 
ing (^e treatise on melon culture^ in its tltl^, 
the latter is at least as old as the first edi¬ 
tion of La Quintinie* In the 1699 edition of 
Dahuron, it is said to be by a person of as much, 
if not more, experience in that line, as anyone 
in the Low Countries* It should be said, however, 
that while Dahuron*s book was certainly published 
as early as I690, it is not certain whether its 
form was the same as in the later editions of 
1692 and 1699. 
