Show SENATE FRUIT IS VERY COSTLY PARIS Dy By By The Associated Press Pre a. a Probably the most expensive fruit In n France is the official product of the Senate orchard adjoining the Lux Luxembourg Luxembourg embourg gardens It co cots costa ts francs franc to keep up the fruit trees and the he flowers and there are 45 garden sarden- gardeners ers on the payroll The fruit brings in about francs a year so each cach apple or pear costs the government 35 times what hat it brings on the market The receipts go into the senates senate's bar bu fund High prices are paId for the fruit appless and pears selling often for ten and fifteen francs apiece as the orchard orchard orchard ard and gardens are a sort of experimental experimental mental horticultural plant The gar gar- garden garden garden den is historic It Itc was c once the prop prop- property property property erty of the monks monies who traded It to Mario de dc Medici three centuries ago |