[100] Charles Baltet, loc. cit.
[101] Ardouin Dumazet, Voyage en France, vol. v., p. 10.
[102] Ardouin Dumazet, Voyage en France, vol. v., p. 200.
[103] Baudrillart, Les Populations agricoles de la France: Anjou, pp. 70, 71.
[104] The total production of dessert fruit as well as dried or preserved fruit in France was estimated, in 1876, at 84,000 tons, and its value was taken at about 3,000,000,000 fr. (£120,000,000)—more than one-half of the war contribution levied by Germany. It must have largely increased since 1876.
[105] Ardouin Dumazet, i., 204.
[106] Ardouin Dumazet, vol. vii., pp. 124, 125.
[107] M. Augé-Laribé, L’évolution de la France agricole, Paris (Armand Colin), 1912, p. 74. Professor Fontgalland estimates that the total exports of flowers, living plants, fruit and vegetables, both in season and out of season (primeurs), from the Alpes Maritimes, reach the enormous sum of £1,188,000, the gross income from an acre reaching as much as £200.
[108] Charles Baltet, L’Horticulture, etc.
[109] Charles Baltet, L’Horticulture, etc.