J. Linden, Établissement d’introduction et d’horticulture: Catalogue illustré des plantes de serres. No. 95. J. Linden, Établissement d’introduction et d’horticulture: Catalogue illustré des plantes de serres. No. 95.

J. Linden, Établissement d’introduction et d’horticulture: Catalogue illustré des plantes de serres. No. 95.
Gand [Gent], 1876, pp. 85, wood-engraved plates, 8vo (154 x 228 mm), printed wrappers (numeral).
€ 120
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.
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