Excerpt from Les Plantes Bulbeuses, Vol. 1: Espèces, Races Et Variétés Cultivées dans les Jardins de l'Europe; Avec l'Indication des Procédés de Culture
Les ordres religieux, nous sommes heureux de leur rendre cette justice, n'ont pas peu contribué au perfectionnement de la culture des oignons à fleurs. C'est dans leurs paisibles solitudes, et par leurs soins, qu'une grande partie des collec tions se sont formées et de là répandues dans les jardins des curieux, comme on les appelait alors. Des collections de fruits de tous genres ont été également réunies par eux, et nous pouvons avancer, sans crainte d'être démenti, que plusieurs des meilleurs arbres fruitiers de nos vergers proviennent de la belle pépimere des Chartreux, que dirigeait le savant et digne Père François, le modeste auteur du Jardinier solitaire. Le Père Dardenne s'occupait de son côté de la culture et de.
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