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Government announces authorization for horticulturalists to market their vegetable plants – Angers Info

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This Wednesday, April 1, during questions of government control in the Senate, the senator from Maine-et-Loire Emmanuel CAPUS called on the Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Agnès PANNIER-RUNACHER, on the need to maintain the services essential to the functioning of the country.

In the first part of his speech, he first wanted to pay tribute to…

By Anna Laurent Garden Design

In 17th century Europe, horticulturalists began opening their gardens to plants from around the world. Plant explorers were forging into new botanical territories—inlets in South American waterways, crevasses in China's mountains—and returning with roses and fruits, orchids and lilies. Exotic plants were traded, cultivated, and illustrated.

Previously, botanic illustration was largely produced for medical texts and herbals. But as the world's botanic borders began to dissolve, plants emerged as subjects unto themselves, and botanic portraits were used to document a discovery, catalogue a garden, or study a species.

To look at a history of botanic illustration is to look at the changing significance of plants over time. A selection of historic prints that documents these transitional periods—of plant as medical specimen, to exotic beauty, to garden delight—is on display at Lotusland, at a new exhibit titled "The Plant Hunters: Botanical Illustrations from the 16th to 19th Centuries," through November 2.