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French Intensive Gardening #

For over 300 years—from the royal gardens at Versailles, to the market gardens of Paris—French gardeners developed and perfected a system to grow excellent fruit and vegetables year round, for some of the most discriminating palates in the world. This system is known as French Intensive Gardening.

In the late 19^th century, this system was exported to England, and a number of Victorian writers documented these methods for posterity.

At intensively, we bring these methods to a 21^st century audience, by republishing these writings in a modern web-based reading platform.

The Library #

Our growing collection of historical sources:

• French Market Gardening by John Weathers, 1909
• Intensive Culture of Vegetables on the French System by P. Aquatias, 1913
• French Method of Intensive Cultivation by H. Herrman, 1910
• and excerpts from The Vegetable Garden by Mm. Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie, 1885