Gardener to the King

Gardener to the King
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Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 1559705833
ISBN-13 : 9781559705837
Rating : 4/5 (837 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Gardener to the King by : Frédéric Richaud

Download or read book Gardener to the King written by Frédéric Richaud and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As gardener to His Majesty, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie is master of his own domain, the royal fruit and vegetable garden. Louis' generals might proclaim the power of France abroad, but La Quintine's espaliers and vegetable plots assert nothing less than man's mastery over nature; a garden that can feed a thousand at a sitting, standards of pruning that in three hundred years have never been surpassed."--Jacket.

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