e excellencie_); Paulmier de Grenlemesnil, a most
estimable man, physician to Charles IX., and who died at Caen in 1588,
and wrote a treatise de Vino et Pomaceo; and the only act of whose long
life that one regrets is, that his great skill was the means of
re-establishing the health of Charles, who, with his mother, directed
the horrid Massacre of St. Bartholomew; Cousin, who died in the prison
of Besancon, and wrote De Hortorum laudibus; that patriarch of
agriculture and of horticulture, Olivier de Serres, whose sage and
philosophic mind composed a work rich with the most profound
reflections, and whose genius and merit were so warmly patronized by
"le bon Henri," and no less by Sully;[2] Boyceau, intendant of the
gardens of Louis XIII., who, in 1638, published Traite du Jardinage,
selon les raisons de la nature, et de l'art, avec divers desseins de
parterres, pelouses, bosquets, &c.; Andre Mollet, who wrote Le Jardin de
plaisir, &c.; Claude Mollet, head gardener to Henry IV. and Louis XIII.,
who, in 1595, planted the gardens of Saint Germain-en-laye, Monceau,
and Fontainbleau, and whose name and memory (as Mr. Loudon observes),
has been too much forgotten; Bornefond, author of Jardinier Francois, et
delices de la campagne; Louis Liger, of consummate experience in the
florist's art, "auteur d'un grand nombre d'ouvrages sur l'agriculture,
et le jardinage," and one of whose works was thought not unworthy of
being revised by London and Wise, and of whose interesting works the
Biographie Universelle (in 52 tomes) gives a long list, and mentions the
great sale which his Jardinier fleuriste once had; Morin, the florist,
mentioned by Evelyn, and whose garden contained ten thousand tulips; the
justly celebrated Jean de la Quintinye, whose precepts, says Voltaire,
have been followed by all Europe, and his abilities magnificently
rewarded by Louis; Le Notre, the most celebrated gardener (to use Mr.
Loudon's words) that perhaps ever existed, and of whom the Biographie
Univer. observes, that whatever might have been the changes introduced
in whatever Le Notre cultivated, "il seroit difficile de mettre plus de
grandeur et de noblesse;"[3] Charles Riviere du Fresnoy "qu'il joignot a
un gout general pour tous les arts, des talens particuliers pour la
musique et le dessein. Il excelloit sur-tout dans l'art de destribuer
les jardins. Il publia plusieurs _Chansons et les Amusemens serieux et
comiques_: petit ouvrage souvens re-imprime et