It wasn’t enough for an apple or pear tree merely to yield crops in Louis XIV’s vegetable garden at Versailles. How it looked was just as important, with branches carefully coaxed into perfect concentric circles or something akin to a candelabra. Kudos then to Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie, the head horticulturist at the Potager du Roi in the 17th century. A dab hand at pruning, he knew how to sate the Sun King’s appetite for aesthetic order, as well as for out-of-season strawberries, s...| The World Of Interiors