Botanical Collection

In the botanical collection, you will find an original and remarkable collection of plant-related documents, including all of the documents in the Villa Thuret library, as well as numerous works on fruit cultivation from the INRAE collection.

Access to the digitized documents

The Villa Thuret library, managed today by INRAE, was created by Gustave Thuret, an eminent botanist, when he settled in Cap d'Antibes in 1857. It contains an original and remarkable documentary legacy on plants including flora, botanical monographs, plant biology, horticulture and arboriculture, exotic plant species and acclimatization.

You will find some of these documents in the botanical collection: old, recent or rare books, journal collections.

The botanical collection also includes treatises and illustrated works on fruit cultivation from the INRAE collections.

 

On the same subject

  • Reforestation at altitude: from species selection to “flying nurseries”
    photographie de Billecard, 1899 : La Bâtie Neuve, pépinière volante de pin cembro, périmètre de Durance-Luye.
    Mountainous Area

    Reforestation at altitude: from species selection to “flying nurseries”

    Starting from 1860, but especially after 1882, reforesting entire areas of the Alps or Pyrenees becomes a national policy, implemented by the mountain land restoration services (RTM). The goal is to reforest in order to stabilize the land and silence the torrents. Reforestation involves selecting species suited to the altitudes and conditions of the mountains. It also requires organizing production in "flying nurseries" or in valleys for the most suitable tree species.

  • Color for the New Year
    Varieties of tuberous begonias
    Favourite

    Color for the New Year

    Agate invites you to start the year 2025 in color with tuberous begonias, taken from the Flore des serres et des jardins d'Europe (in French), Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe, published by the famous horticulturist Louis Van Houtte in the mid-19th century.