Victor Lemoine
1823–1911
French horticulturist. Born in Delme to a family that had been gardeners for several generations. Studied at Vic-sur-Seille and travelled and worked in gardens in France and Belgium. Established himself as a florist and landscape gardener and opened his own nursery in Nancy in 1850. Became a prolific hybridiser responsible for many new varieties of lilacs, begonias, pelargoniums, dahlias, clematis, fuchsias, and other plants. Legion of honour of France, 1894.
Sources
Garden Magazine 25 (1917): 234
Horthistoria: a history site, http://www.horthistoria.com/articles/articles_articles/articles_articles_the_legacy_of_victor_lemoine (accessed 17 April 2018)
Horticulture, 23 December 1911, pp. 897–9
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