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

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 Étienne 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 Abbe 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 Societe centrale d'Horticulture de France in 1872 titled, "Observations sur la structure et la multiplication par carieux de l'oignon du Lilium thomsonianum (Lindl.)."

Date Original: 1870-1880
Type: Text; Image
Time Period: 1870s (1870-1879); 1880s (1880-1889);
Language: fre;
Source: Rare QK495.L72D83
Repository: Illinois Digital Archives
Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden catalog record for this work is available here.