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Excerpt from Cherry Production in France In 1962, France had acres of cherry trees grown as culture pures, i.e., solid-planted stands not intermixed with other trees or woody plants such as vines or bushes according to the French agricultural census. In addition, there were acres of cherry trees that were associees ou isolees, i.e., either intermixed or else isolated trees, the latter a tree here and there in the midst of a field crop or scattered along the roadside. The census also showed that cherry trees are grown in every one of France's 21 regions, though very few are found in the northernmost region, Nord, a highly industrialized area in which the cities of Dunkerque and Lille are located. The 1962 figures represent a slight increase over the 1961 figures of around acres solid-planted and acres of intermixed isolated trees. The combined area-of solid-planted trees and intermixed or scattered trees-totaled in 1962 and about in 1961. Though the solid planted portion actually accounted for slightly less than half the acreage, the present study will concentrate on this portion for several reasons. Most important, a large proportion of the solid-planted acreage produces fruit for market, designated commercial by the French Government, which estimates for each departement (comparable to a county in the United States), the proportion marketed. For France, as a whole, 73 percent of the 1960 crop, 72 percent of the 1961 cr0p, and 74 percent of the 1962 crop was classi fied commercial. The remainder represents farm or local consumption. The 1961 census showed that departements in which over 50 percent of the production was considered commercial contained 93 percent of total solid-planted acreage acres); departements where 50 percent or less of the production was commercial therefore contained but 7 percent of the solid-planted acreage. On the other hand, the latter departments had 42 percent of the intermixed isolated plantings. (latest detailed data available were from the 1961 census.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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