(Horticulture - Fruit)CADET-DE-VAUX, A(ntoine).-A(lexis).   MEMOIRE SUR QUELQUES INCONVENIENS DE LA TAILLE DES ARBRES A FRUIT, ET NOUVELLE METHODE DE LES CONDUIRE POUR ASSURER LA FRUCTIFICATION;   Suivi du Rapport Des Commissaires, MM. Thouin et Cels.       Paris: Au Bureau Du Journal D'Economie Rurale Et Domestique...   1807.          The multi-talented Antoine Cadet-De-Vaux was a chemist, pharmacist and viticulturist who also established a boulangerie with Parmentier. He was one of the originators of the JOURNAL DE PARIS. In this memoir he discusses his "newly found" method of fruit culture which was based upon his observation that hanging branches produced more fruit than trained branches. He named his new fruit culture practice "arcure" and tried it, in nurseries in Franconville and Vitry.The text includes a separate report on Cadet-de-Vaux's method by the noted horticulturists Thouin and Cels who concluded that more time would be needed to evaluate its merits. For more on Cadet-de Vaux and the experimentation of this period, see Janson, POMONA'S HARVEST, pp. 227 to 232. Scarce.   8vo (22 x 14 cm); (iv); 48 pp. including 2 pp. publisher's ads + 1 fold-out engraved plate.            Contemporary marbled paper covers with early nineteenth century bookseller's etiquette on inner cover, edges worn; text untrimmed, occasional light foxing. $225.00

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