Short instructions, very profitable and necessary for all those 
who delight in gardening, translated out of French into 
English, London, Printed by John Wolfe, 1592. (Cecil, 
2d ed., p.337; Johnson, p.70) 
Johnson gives title; ’’Short instructions for 
gardening and grafting, with diverse plotts and 
knotts for gardeners,” with the date 1591; but 
this is not confirmed by other bibliographers 
and seems likely to be an error. 
C, H. Payne, in Card. Chron. (3) 63:216 (May 
25, 1918), says he has never been able to trace 
this to its French original. Lady Cecil states 
that the "copy belonging to the Earl of Crewe 
is probably unique.” If this is the case, the 
work may never have been carefully studied. It 
may have been derived, by way of Du Mesnil or 
some previous French translator, from Crescen- 
zi’s chapters on gardening, or from those brief 
tracts on the subject that were appended to the 
earliest French versions of Crescenzi’s work. 
(MFW) 
See also, in the present bibliography: Cre- 
scenzi, Pietro de. [Opus ruraliura coramodorum. 
French]. 1533/34 et seq. Also: Dei Corno, 
Gregorio. Sensuyt ung petit traicte nouvelle- 
ment adiouste [etc.] Also: Du Mesnil, Ni¬ 
cole, La maniere d’enter et planter arbres. 
