Our confraternity

Our confraternity is made up of rare fruits enthusiasts who are growing unusual fruiting plants and have done this for several years.

It is not an organization, but simply a network of correspondents. No contribution required to join the confraternity.

Commercial-free connotation underlies the confraternity.

The only aim of its members is to improve in the knowledge and the concrete breeding of the rare fruit-trees.

Our activities

Our activities involve exchanging knowledge, vegetal material (seeds, cuttings, scionwoods, plants), contacts and documentation.

Moreover, the members may invite one another to visit their garden, experimental orchard or plantations.

The contacts are freely established on the basis of the members list which is distributed to all the members and which includes in particular the centres of interest of each members (in the rare fruits area). This heading makes the contacts easy and well targeted.

The web site does not contain the members list which is strictly reserved for the members of the confraternity.

The constant avaibility of the confraternity's Web site, within the "Ads" (in French "Annonces") and "Articles" headings in which any language is accepted, allows a considerable widening of the contact's potentialities with people in the world sharing the same botanical centers of interest.

Joining

Only member's co-option carries our new member's adhesion.

If you do not know any, feel free to address a co-option enquiry to the confraternity coordinator : e-mail.

On the first hand, your application will present yourself briefly, and on the other hand will detail your botanical steps and also your centers of interest in the matter.

It is mandatory, in order to efficiently examine your enquiry, that you indicate which are the rare fruit-trees you are breeding and/or those which you have in project to cultivate.

The confraternity coordinator will answer any of your questions and will check with you if the purpose of the confraternity well matches to your objectives and of course, your expectations.

If your contact with the coordinator is fruitful, the co-option is granted.

Then, the coordinator will collect all necessary information for updating our members list.

You will receive the latest version of the list.

The coordinator will help, if you wish it, to fully take part in our activities.

Motivated and serious beginners are welcome.

Informations in other languages than French

The English page enhancement, the positioning in this page of directs links towards internal informations written in English or other languages than French, and the increase of this type of informations on our web site, are in progress.

You can access several links towards very interesting web sites written in English or other languages than French via the  "Associations" (Organizations), "Autres pépinières" (Other nurseries) and "Liens Fruitiers Rares" (Links relative to rare fruit trees) headings.

You can also find the references of some books that are written in  languages other than French in the "Bibliographie" (Bibliography) heading.

All of our web site headings may include informations published by  rare fruits enthusiasts in their native language which is not French. They are put together in a specific page that can be accessed either via the following links or via the submenu of some headings : 

 Ads  in other languages than French.

 Knowledge and tips in other languages than French.

 Hardiness records and observations in other languages than French.

Articles written in other languages than french

Each article not written in French is directly accessible via a specific link positioned in this paragraph as soon as it is published. It can also be accessed via the articles directory.

Published articles :

 La resistenza al freddo delle piante di fico (Ficus carica L.)

 Fig growing in Sweden 

Asimina triloba : una pianta esotica adatta ai climi temperati freddi

 Could the Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica) be planted in heavy soil ?

  Über meine Mispeln (Mespilus germanica L.)
 

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