Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2010 Издание:Taschen Страниц: 78 ISBN: 9783836517775 Turn your kitchen into an art gallery. Mouthwatering ready-to-frame prints of 19th century French garden vegetables. The French company "Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie" arose in the 18th century from the collaboration of Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin - a grain and plant merchant and connoisseur - and his father-in-law, Pierre Andrieux, Botanist to the King. The Vilmorins, though only producers and merchants on the Paris market, contributed enormously to the botanical and agronomic knowledge of their time. Their first catalogue, comprising all kinds of seeds for kitchen-garden vegetables - including legumes, salad plants, flower seeds and bulbs - appeared in 1766. It was followed by a series of Publications periodiques in which the quality of botanical and horticultural information was equaled only by the illustrations. By the mid-19th century, the firm had become the most important seed company in the world - active in production, trade, and scientific advances,...
