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Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
rue Notre-Dame-du-Sommeil
Bruxelles, Bruxelles
Belgium
Swales ainé [the eldest]
Swales cadet [the youngest]
[possibly: Jean Swales (1795-1858), son of Sébastien Swales and Elisabeth Van Tolhuysen, married Anne Marie Huysmans, daughter Cécile (1821-1878)
Jean Swales, married to Antoinette van Hoegaren, daughter Elisabeth (1848-1863)]

[From La Gloire Belgique, by Jean Le Mayeur, 1830, p. 298:] Notre semis de roses ne date guères que du commencement de ce siècle. Quelques belles variétés parurent parmi nous en 1807. La Reine des Roses , le triomphe du Brabant, et dix autres variétés, furent alors et postérieurement gagnées par le sieur Swales aîné , cultivateur. Swales cadet gagna le Turban royal, le Roi de pourpre et dix-sept autres belles variétés.

[From Arbres fruitiers, by Jean Baptiste van Mons, 1835:]
p. 160 ...le propriétaire [des arbres]...le Sieur Swales...
p. 162 ...mes observations au jardin du Sieur Swales et Avec les plants de ce jardin, et partie d'une culture de perfectionnement....
p. 171 ...Si je n'étais pas allé au jardin du Sieur Swales, si je n'y avais pas regardé attentivement le rosier....
 
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