J. Linden, Établissements d’horticulture et d’introduction: Catalogue des plantes nouvelles et supplément du catalogue général No. 87-88 des plantes de serres et de plein air. No. 89. - 1872.

J. Linden, Établissements d’horticulture et d’introduction: Catalogue des plantes nouvelles et supplément du catalogue général No. 87-88 des plantes de serres et de plein air. No. 89. - 1872.
Gand [Gent], 1872, pp. x, 22 (including covers), wood-engraved text-illustrations, 8vo (136 x 216 mm), printed wrappers (numeral).
€ 90
Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898), Luxembourg botanical explorer, plant dealer at Luxemburg, director of the Jardin royal de Zoologie et d’Horticulture, Brussels. Continuing his activities as plant introducer and dealer both in Brussels and Gent (buying the Ambroise Verschaffelt nursery in 1873) in his firms Compagnie continentale d’horticulture and Horticulture internationale. Linden issued sales catalogues from 1846 onward, which often contained descriptions of new taxa as well as illustrations of new or rare plants. They are frequently cited in the literature and difficult to find.
* Stafleu & Cowan 4627.