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Compagnie continentale d’horticulture. Ancienne firme J. Linden:
Supplément au catalogue des plantes de serres. No. 114. Gand [Gent], 1884, pp. 60, 8vo (157 x 240 mm), printed wrappers (numeral and faint library stamps). Pencil markings. € 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.* Not in Stafleu & Cowan.
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