The trees, the sky, the dirt road and the bottom of the wooden cottage. The headquarters of the Belfiore nursery is in the middle of the woods. From here, Ugo Netherlands, together with his son, James, keep in touch with the world. Who needs him there in the first place, of person, via phone or email. The old fruit plants have no secrets for him, guardian enthusiast and connoisseur meticulous. The master of the graft, the ancient practice to ensure the reproduction of the ancient variety, pioniere della ricerca e del recupero di rare varietà destinate a scomparire ha fatto del suo vivaio a Lastra a Signa uno scrigno di preziosi esemplari. An engineering graduate, he immediately understands that his path will be another. For decades now studies, research and protection of plant species that are threatened with oblivion. Of the family of origin of the Casentino, by the early Eighties, has put down roots a few miles from Florence, creating from scratch – or almost – a forest populated of specimens precious. Inspired by the "garden of forgotten fruits" created by the great Tonino Guerra in Pennabilli in the province of Rimini, he started his drifting from love yes, but, above all, from the desire to learn. She began asking for help to the old pomologi and has reviewed volumes on volumes, paintings upon paintings to reconstruct the ancient native Tuscan plant species in the most particular details possible. He knows the paintings of Bartolomeo Bimbi, painter of the Medici court, careful custodians of fruit trees and vineyards, the Villa of the rat hole. He is a regular visitor to the Still Life Museum in Poggio a Caiano. The lighthouse is the botanist of the nineteenth-century Giorgio Gallesio, cultured noble with the passion for fruit. Fiorini's is an "innate passion - he himself says -. Beautiful fruit plant. And has a dual function that is returning in fashion. It is beautiful and produces better fruit, more flavorful and with superior resistance to adversity, physical and parasitic diseases".