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Description
[AGRICULTURE]
M. L. B. [LE BERRIAYS]
Treatise on Gardens or La Quintinye’s New Work, containing a Description and Cultivation of: 1° fruit trees; 2° vegetable plants; 3° trees, shrubs, flowers and ornamental plants.
Caen. Published by Manoury, 1785.
3 volumes in 8°. Full contemporary binding in fawn-coloured, grained sheepskin. Ribbed spine, decorated with gilt metalwork and fleurons. The cap of volume III is slightly worn.
Volume I: Part One – Fruit Garden. 5 unnumbered pages, XXIV pages, 410 pages, 1 unnumbered page and 12 fold-out plates, printed on lightly tinted publisher’s paper.
Volume II: Part Two: Vegetable gardens. 416 pages.
Volume III: Part Three: Ornamental Garden. 546 pages. Page 185 is numbered 385.
The three volumes were first published in 1775. A fourth part was published in 1785.
René Le Berryais, an agronomist and collaborator of Duhamel de Monceau, presents with this ‘nouveau de La Quintinye’ one of the most comprehensive treatises of the 18th century on the art of arboriculture, vegetable gardening, ornamental gardening and greenhouse cultivation. For each type of garden, he provides ‘a description and cultivation guide’ for all known plants (for example, in Volume I, Le Berryais lists 22 species of cherry, 30 of apple and nearly 90 species of pear; in Volume II, there are descriptions of asparagus, cucumbers, beans, turnips and radishes, etc.)
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