Collection of manuscript notes, drawings, and photographs on lilies. 1870-1880

Title Variants

Alternative: Lilies

By

Duchartre, Pierre Etienne Simon, 1811-1894

Type

Collection

Material

Archival material

Publication info

Notes

Collection title devised by cataloger.

Manuscripts and drawings arranged in 3 envelopes, numbered parts 1-3; included in part 1 are photographs and 1 letter; included in part 3 is the reprint article and seed packet; all materials laid in maroon clamshell box having the spine title of Lilies.

Acquired by the Chicago Botanic Garden from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in November 2002.

Bookplate of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, presented by Jan de Graaf, November 1951.

Digitized with Illinois State Library grant funding, 2018-2020.

Research notes, drawings, manuscripts, photographs, 1 reprint article and 1 seed packet relating to the cultivation of lilies, dated principally between 1870 and 1880. | Pierre Etienne Simon Duchartre was a French botanist and one of the founders, in 1854, of the Botanical Society of France. The Asian species of lily, Lilium duchartrei is named after him. Three envelopes contain Duchartre's notes on the germination of a number of varieties of lilies along with illustrative pencil drawings. Included with these notes are undated black and white photographs of lilies along with persons involved in their cultivation, with the stamp of Alfred Unger on the back. Also included are 1 partially illegible letter addressed to Monsieur Abbé Souillet from Alfred Unger dated November 1936 and 1 packet of lily seeds dated Oct. 6, 1878. To accompany one manuscript is the reprint of an article by Duchartre which appeared in the Journal de la Société centrale d'Horticulture de France in 1872 titled, "Observations sur la structure et la multiplication par carieux de l'oignon du Lilium thomsonianum (Lindl.)."

In French.

Subjects

Liliaceae , Lilies

Call Number

QK495.L72D83

Language

French

Identifiers

OCLC: 43112915