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This historic nursery in Milan offers a wide choice of ornamental potted plants, fruit plants, seeds, bonsai trees, pesticides, pottery, and all the equipment for the maintenance of small, medium and large green spaces.

In 1884, the three brothers Francesco, Vittorio and Paolo transformed the original flower-nursery business, born at the end of the 1700s, into the new enterprise under the collective name of “Fratelli Ingegnoli”. Thus, they founded one of the first European agro-botanical establishment.

The cultivation of highly selected fruit and ornamental plants was then merged with the production of vegetable, flower and lawn seeds; the three brothers also did some serious research which, thanks to the support offered by some of the best Italian and foreign botanists, led to the selecting new varieties of vegetable and forage species. They also created a mail-order catalog, which became extremely popular also thanks to the massive expansion of the Italian railway network.

The famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi used to be a returning customer – he bought a lot of plants from Fratelli Ingegnoli, including the very first Japanese Persimmons in Italy.

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