Catalogue des plus excellens fruits, les plus rares & les plus estimés, qui se cultivent dans les Pepinieres des reverends peres chartreux de Paris
Subtitle: avec leurs descriptions, & le tems le plus ordinaire de leur maturité
Publisher: Chez Jean-Baptiste Delespine, Imprimeur-Libraire ordinaire du Roy, ruë Saint Jacques, à Saint Paul
Published: 1736
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Nursery stock; Catalogs; Fruit-culture; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Bons frui
Notes: "The Carthusians were invited to Paris by Saint Louis who offered them the castle of Vauvert in 1258. The monks, who were never more than 32, were at the head of a vast area of 23 hectares, famous for its gardens. They were driven out in 1792. The Charterhouse became an armaments factory and was then demolished. This catalog descibes the various varieties of peaches (cerises, Malte, Belle-Garde or gallande ...), cherries (royale, à grappes ...), a great variety of pears (cuisse-madame, Rousseline, Ambrette, l'angélique de Bordeaux), etc."--Liber Antiquus datasheet.

""Attesting to the French preoccupation with fruit cultivation and supporting its advancement was a proliferation of nurseries... The most enduring and internationally accclaimed of these businesses began around 1650 at the Carthusian monastery of Chartreux in Paris, and proved so successful that by 1712 annual sales receached 14,000 trees. The monks' fruit collections and the trees that they sold, in particular pears, became renowned for their 'trueness to type', that is the correct variety, not something else masquerading under the name"" (Morgan, The Book of Pears, p. 105)."--Liber Antiquus datasheet.

At foot of title page: Avec permission.

Page 40, bottom: Permis d'imprimer et afficher le 28 septembre 1736. Hérault.

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