Le parfait jardinier, ou, Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers : avec une Trait© des oranges, suivi de Reflexions sur l'agriculture
Le parfait jardinier is a 1695 French gardening manual by Jean de La Quintinie, published in Paris by C. Barbin, covering fruit and kitchen gardens, orange trees and horticulture. The four pictures are decorative woodcut headpieces and tailpieces, including a scrolled ornament with flower sprays, a historiated initial I with a figure and animal, and a geometric parterre plan with cartouches. A designer could draw on the strapwork, scrolled foliage and symmetrical garden layouts as period ornament.
