Fruit sizes and shapes: discover the old fruit shapes and gestures of the arborist

Name: Fruit sizes and shapes: discover the old fruit shapes and gestures of the arborist
Start: 2021-09-18T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardins Fruitiers

A small visit that allows you to discover the know-how of arborists in terms of size of fruit trees.

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

CD57-Jardins Fruitiers de Laquenexy

A small visit that allows you to discover the know-how of arborists in terms of size of fruit trees.

For about thirty minutes, a tree grower from the Jardins Fruitiers de Laquenexy will show you the different fruit forms that can be made in the middle of the labyrinth which gathers about forty apple trees all cut differently. A true know-how that requires technicality and patience.

About the location

Jardins Fruitiers

4 rue Bourger et Perrin, 57530 Laquenexy

Moselle
Grand Est

In 1901, the Government of of Lorraine Alsace decides to create an establishment intended(designed) to study problems put by the reconstruction of the vineyard reached(affected) by the Phylloxera. This is the way(That's how) nait the wine-making institute of Laquenexy. The Institute becomes in 1919 the "Wine-making Station(Resort) of the State for Alsace - Lorraine". 120 000 subjects are then grafted every year. From 1920, the vineyard(vine) undergoes a clear(net) backward movement(drop) in the region, the culture of the strawberry then takes off. Later, in 1953, the General Council of the Moselle acquires property and transforms it into Centre of Studies and Horticultural Tries(Essays) of Laquenexy. It is in this period that begins the promotion(class) of fruit culture and that the centre evolves in Departmental Centre of Fruit Experimentation. In 2008, the Garden of Flavours, compound(made up) today of about twenty gardened spaces, opens to the visitors. The heritage fruiterers stays in it importing with two labelled collections National Reference collections: that of apple trees with 700 varieties and that of raspberry canes with 94 varieties.