Éric Dumont is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 horticulturalist and nursery

Nursery (horticulture)

A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of...

 gardener in Troyes

Troyes

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 in the French département Aube

Aube

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. He is the son of the pilot Charles Dumont and great-grandson of the famous horticulturist Charles Baltet.

He is considered an orchard

Orchard

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 specialist as he has conserved various old fruit-bearing varieties and the centuries-old knowledge of caring for them. He presents numerous gardening and orchard television program

Television program

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mes with the French actor, author and presenter Jean-Pierre Coffe. In 2000 he published a book entitled Les vergers à l'ancienne (The Orchards of Old).