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Book: History of Garden Design and Gardening
Chapter: Chapter 3: European Gardens (500AD-1850)

Vienna market gardening

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401. The market-gardens round Vienna are numerous, and great abundance of common vegetables and hardy fruits are grown in them; but they are without walls, and, indeed, look more like fields than gardens. The apricot ripens on standards, but the peach is seldom cultivated.