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Peony Breeder
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Jean-Baptiste Ruitton (1813-1893)
François Ruitton (1838-1905), his son
Benoît Rivière (1865-1918), son-in-law of Jean-Baptiste Ruitton
[From Lyon horticole, August 1924, p. 123:] la maison Vve Benoit Rivière et fils, horticulteurs-pépiniéristes, 78, rue Coste, à Cuire-lès-Lyon, par Caluire (Rhône)
[From Visions of Loveliness, by Judith M. Raylor, 2014, p. 382-3:] Benoît Rivière (1865-1913) married Fleury [Ruitton]'s daighter and, working with his wife's brother, François, developed the nursery extensively. He introduced tree peonies very successfully. In the end he took over the business, and it became known as Rivière's. They offered 360 varieties of herbaceous peony and 240 types of tree peony in 1908. Benoît Rivière dies at the age of forty-eight, when his son, Antoine, was only eleven years old. Madame (Ruitton) Rivière kept things going until her son was old enough to take over
[From pivoinesriviere.com:] C’est à Caluire et Cuire dans le Rhône, en 1849 que Fleury Jean-Baptiste Gabriel Ruitton installe sa pépinière. C’est son l’impulsion de son fils François, que les premières pivoines herbacées sont mises en culture. Le gendre de François Ruitton : Benoit Rivière, développe considérablement la culture de pivoines herbacées et y ajoute la collection de pivoines arbustives en provenance de Chine et du Japon. Il y ajoute ses propres hybridations. En 1912, son catalogue de ventes à distance propose déjà plus de 600 variétés de pivoines. Benoît Rivière meurt en 1913 à l’age de 48 ans alors que son fils Antoine n’a que 11 ans. Son épouse Marie sut cependant conserver une partie des cultures jusqu’en 1925, époque à laquelle Antoine pu reprendre la direction de l’établissement.
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