![]() ![]() ![]() Pieces of lath on the wall represented candelabra. ![]() The forms of the trees were designed beforehand. They got a lock-smith for the props, an iron-worker for the fasteners, and a carpenter for the rests. It excited Bouvard’s imagination so much that they sought immediately in their books for a nomenclature for purchasable plants, and, having selected names which appeared to them wonderful, they applied to a nurseryman from Falaise, who busied himself in supplying them with three hundred stalks for which he had not found a sale. It is a beautiful industry, you must admit! And what does it cost? Attention, manuring, and a fresh touch of the pruning-knife.” ![]() Petersburg, during the winter, grapes are sold at a napoleon per grape. Gardeners make out of apricots twenty-five thousand livres in the year! At St. A pear which is the product of three soils is sometimes sold in the capital for five or six francs. “We ought to give ourselves up exclusively to tree culture-not for pleasure, but as a speculation. Pécuchet was disgusted with gardening, and a few days later he remarked: “We shall not be more unlucky than before only now we are forced to practise economy!” “Very well,” said Bouvard, “we have time before us.” He intended to get a tenant then they would see. ![]()
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