. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. ounts of Anjou held sway, thoughto-day the river has sonaewhat receded. Beyond the ancient ramparts, up the hill,have been erected the quartiers neufs, withhouses all admirably planned and laid out, withgardens forming a veritable girdle, as did theretaining walls of other days which surroundedthe old chateau and its faubourg. To-dayAngers shares with Nantes the title of metrop-olis of the west, and the Loire flows on its ampleway between the two in a far more imposingmanner than elsewhere in its course fromsource to sea. Angers doe
. Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country. ounts of Anjou held sway, thoughto-day the river has sonaewhat receded. Beyond the ancient ramparts, up the hill,have been erected the quartiers neufs, withhouses all admirably planned and laid out, withgardens forming a veritable girdle, as did theretaining walls of other days which surroundedthe old chateau and its faubourg. To-dayAngers shares with Nantes the title of metrop-olis of the west, and the Loire flows on its ampleway between the two in a far more imposingmanner than elsewhere in its course fromsource to sea. Angers does not lie exactly at the junctureof the Maine and Loire, but a little way above,but it has always been considered as one ofthe chief Loire cities; and probably many ofits visitors do not realize that it is not on theLoire itself. The marvellous fairy-book chateau of An-gers, with its fourteen black-striped towers, isjust as it was when built by St. Louis, save thatits chess-board towers lack, in most cases, theircoiffes, and all vestiges have disappeared of. Chateau dAngers Anjou and Bretagne 289 the charpente which formerly topped themoff. Beyond the rocky formation of the banksof the Loire, which crop out below the junctureof the Maine and the Loire, below Angers, areSavennieres and La Possoniere, whence comethe most famous vintages of Anjou, which, tothe wines of these parts, are what ChateauMargaux and Chateau Yquem are to the Borde-lais, and the Clos Vougeot is to the Bourgui-gnons. The peninsula formed by the Loire and theMaine at Angers is the richest agriculturalregion in all France, the nurseries and thekitchen-gardens having made the fortune ofthis little corner of Anjou. Angers is the headquarters for nursery-gar-den stock for the open air, as Orleans is forornamental and woodland trees and shrubs. The trade in living plants and shrubs hasgrown to very great proportions since 1848,when an agent went out from here on behalfof the leading house in the trade and visited
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