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Compagnie continentale d’horticulture. Ancienne firme J. Linden:
Catalogue illustré des plantes de serres. No. 109. Gand [Gent], 1883, pp. 89, wood-engraved text-illustrations and plates (1 large folding showing the new entrance of the garden on recto and Sonerila-species on verso), 8vo (154 x 230 mm), printed wrappers (numeral). € 210
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.* Not in Stafleu & Cowan.
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