Arboretum Vilmorin

See also: Vilmorin

The Arboretum Vilmorin and its buildings, located at Glass-the-Bush, old relay of hunting of Louis XIV, was acquired by Philippe-Andre de Vilmorin in 1815. The choice of this place was carried out in particular for the quality of its grounds and its proximity of Paris.

This park of four hectares, girds walls whose plan is allotted to André Ours, is transformed by Philippe-Andre de Vilmorin into a place of acclimatization of trees and shrubs come from the whole world.

In 1821, it acquires grounds near Nogent-on-Vernisson (Loiret) which will become the Arboretum of the Bars. Arboretum in which were present the majority of the subjects of Glass-the-Bush, but on more large scales.

Arboretum Vilmorin is remarkable like place of first acclimatization in Europe, in the middle of the 19th century, of trees and shrubs coming from all the areas of the world. Varieties often brought back by missionaries and exploring envoys by the family Vilmorin (the Far East, America, North Africa, Siberia and the Caucasus).

Since the beginning of the 19th century, seven generations of Vilmorin dealt with Arboretum in spirit of continuity in the maintenance and the development of the collections. They are especially varieties such as: Philadelphus, Berberis, Deutzia, Quercus, Acer, Malus, Lonicera, Rhododendrons and Euonymus . Edouard Andre, Vilmorin family friend, intervened to create the water ways there.

Today the Vilmorin family, helped of a scientific committee made up of eminent dendrologists, developed two axes for the new introductions: plantation of let us tax dedicated to the family Vilmorin, introduction of kinds mono and bispecific or counting less than 10 let us tax if possible coming from China (Macdenia, Flacoutiacées such Carrierea, Idesia, Polyothyrsis and Hamamélidacées). 2.280 species were indexed and put on data processing.

Arboretum Vilmorin though deprived, can be visited on written request. These visits, apart from the European Days of the inheritance, are generally reserved to the specialists because of brittleness in the existing varieties in Arboretum.

Joint, the municipal Arboretum of Glass-the-Bush, called " The House of the Trees and the Birds, voluntary natural reserve Roger de Vilmorin" cover a surface of 1,5 ha.

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