| Summary: | A collection of documents held in the National Archives in France, in the papers of the Bâtiments du Roi, concern the replanting schedule of the gardens of Versailles and of Trianon, called “regarnis” or replenishment. It comprises twenty orders for plants addressed to the Nurseries of the king between 1753 and 1772, drafted on the same model and containing the same information: quantity, name and destination of each plant. Study of this unbroken series allows connections between plant species and their part in landscaping, thus creating a hierarchy among plants and landscape components. These replanting orders further demonstrate the desire to maintain – as well as the difficulty of doing so – the gardens in their original state and cast new light on the management decisions of various gardens during the reign of Louis XV.
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