Note 107 — Chapter V · THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE—(continued).
Reading edition
M. Augé-Laribé, L’évolution de la France agricole, Paris (Armand Colin), 1912, p. 74. Professor Fontgalland estimates that the total exports of flowers, living plants, fruit and vegetables, both in season and out of season (primeurs), from the Alpes Maritimes, reach the enormous sum of £1,188,000, the gross income from an acre reaching as much as £200.