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Vilmorin (1770-1862), Philippe-André de
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quai de la Mégisserie, no. 30
Paris, 75001
France
Philippe-André de Vilmorin (November 30, 1776 Paris - March 21,1862 Paris), French horticulturist and dendrologist, member of the "Société royale d'agriculture" and of the "Société de horticulture" of Paris and London

[From Journal de la Société d'Agronomie Pratique, May 1829, p. 187:]  VILMORIN, propriétaire, grainier du Roi, rue de Seine, no 30.

[From Le Bon Jardinier, 1833, p. 858] Vilmorin, quai de la Mégisserie, no. 30, à Paris.

[From The Gardener's Magazine, 1828, p. 17] M. Vilmorin & Co. have two nurseries or seed-gardens, one in Paris, and the other at M. Vilmorin's county residence, at a few miles' distance. Both are chiefly used for proving seeds. M. Vilmorin & Co., though unquestionably the first seedsmen in the world, are not nurserymen; that is, theydo not grow for sale either plants or trees.
[From Journal of a Horticultural Tour, 1823:]
p.421...Vilmorin-Andrieux and Company being the most distinguished seedsmen in Paris, we thought it right to visit their nursery-gardens, at No. 39. Rue de Reuilly, in the Fauxbourg St. Antoine.
p. 446...Shop of Vilmorin-Andrieux, & Co. No.30 on the Quai Feraille, the best store-house in Paris for procuring seeds of all kinds...

[From Bulletin de la Société nationale d'acclimatation, 1909, p. 119:] En 1821, la famille de Vilmorin acquérait le domaine des Barres, pour la cultures en grand de Graminées; quelques années plus tard, M. Philippe-André de Vilmorin, le grand-père de M. Maurice de Vilmorin y commença les belles plantations forestIères qui subsistent encore maintenant...[il] mourut en 1863...En 1866, l'État acquérait de sa veuve la partie du domaine (67 hectares) qui renferme les plantations forestières...

[From The Old Rose Informant, by Brent C. Dickerson, p. 24: in 1824, Vibert wrote:] Vilmorin père and Dupont are the ones who [in France] began to collect [roses]...

 
 
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