Language: Bilingual in English and French
For the first time, this book makes available high-resolution reproductions of all the 258 paintings of gourds of the genus Cucurbita, figuring about a hundred cultivars, kept at the Bibliotheque centrale of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, made in the 18th century by Antoine Nicholas Duchesne, of the Royal Garden in Versailles, a forerunner of genetics and evolution.