Album Vilmorin. The Vegetable Garden: Werner Dressendorfer

The French Company “Vilmorin -Andrieux & Cie” Arose in the 18th Century from the Collaboration Between Philipteire de Vilmorin – A Gran and Plant Merchant and Plant Merchant and Plant Connoisseur-And His Father-In-Law, Pierre Andrieux, Botanist to the King. The Vilmorins, Though Only Produce and Merchants on the Paris Market, Contributed Enormously to the Botanical and Agronomic Knowleydge of Their Time. Their First Catalog, Compring All Kinds of Seeds for Kitchen -Garden Vegetables – Including Legumes, Salad Plants, Flower Seeds and Bulbs – Appeared in 1766. Followed by a Series of Publications Periodiques in Which The Quality of the Botanical and HorticultUral Information Was Equaled by the Illustrations. By the Mid -19th Century, The Firm Had Become the Most Important Seed Company in the World – Active in Production, Trade, and Scientific Advances, Thinks Largly to Louis de Vilmorin’s Crucial Research Into Selection and Heredity in the 1850S. At the Height of Its International Renown, …

Author
Dressendorfer Werner
Publisher
Taschen, 2013
Series
Architecture and design
Genre
Photo albums