Louis Van Houtte's "Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe" or "The Gardens of Europe" gorgeous botanical prints from 1845-1875

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Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe
Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire, editors
Ghent, Belgium (1845-1883)

Gorgeous original 140-year-old multi-stone color lithographs with some handcoloring

Fold-out "double" plates measure approximately 9.5 x 13 inches (approx. 24 x 33 cm)
Single plates measure approximately 6.5 x 9.5 inches (approx. 16.5 x 24 cm)

Louis Benoit van Houtte, Belgian horticulturist, was born at Ypres on June 29, 1810, and died at Ghent May 9, 1876. He was associated with the Jardin Botanique de Brussels from 1836 to 1838. In 1839, after an expedition to Brazil, he went to Ghent where he founded the Ecole d'Horticulture and the horticultural journal Flore des serres et des Jardins de l'Europe. Flore des serres was an extensive work with over 2000 colored plates. It contained 23 volumes published from 1845 to 1883, some coming out after his death.

He also established a nursery there with managing partner the nurseryman Adolf Papeleu. Van Houtte's knowledge of botany, his commercial aptitude and language skills made the Establishment Van Houtte very successful. About 1845 he began sending out plant collectors to bring back orchids and other exotic plants from South and Central America. His company propagated many plants for European greenhouses. The first Victoria to be cultivated on the Continent grew there in a specially built greenhouse and the first confirmed water lily hybrid, N. Ortgiesiano-rubra, was created there by Eduard Ortgies. By 1870 Van Houtte owned the most flourishing nursery in Belgium, with an area of 14 hectares and 50 greenhouses. After he died in 1876 his son continued the business.

Louis Benoit van Houtte

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(The digital watermark is to deter image theft and does not appear on the actual print.)

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Rose H.R. Peach Blossom

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Renoncules á fleurs doubles

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Rosier Ile-Bourbon

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Rosier Thé
Isabella Gray

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Echites Peltata

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Datura Humilis

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Tydaea Eekhauti

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Tulipa Greigii

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Locheria Magnifica

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Rhododendron Pelargoniae Florum

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Tydaea Amabilis

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Rhododendron Pontico-Maximum

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Gloxinia Léon Vandervee

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Oeillets Remontants

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Gloxinia Cordon lavande

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Gloxinia Fleur de Flandre

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Gloxinia Ami Thibaut

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Gloxinia Mina

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Gloxinia Indianella

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Gloxinia Ceinture d'Hébé

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Gloxinia Souvenir d'Henri

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Gloxinia Rose & Hermine

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Le Francq de Berkhey

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Scilla Sibirica

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Convulvus Mauritanicus

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Begonia Rosacea

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Datura Meteloides

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Lychnis Sieboldii

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Lychnis Grandiflora

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Papaver Croceum

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Rhododendron Retusum

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Methonica Virescens Plantii

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Bignonia Carolinae

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Akedia Quinata

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Punica Granatum Legrellei

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Nolana Paradoxa Violacea

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Phycella Corusca

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Linum Pubescens Sibthorpianum

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Begonia Hernaniaefolia

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Marcetia Andicola

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Franciscea Eximia

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Rhododendron Virgatum

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Tulip Double Hative

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Calanthe Vestita

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Rhododendron Veitchianum

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Eucharis Candida

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Gardenia Amoena

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Crinum Brachynema

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Cestrum Regelii

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Solanum Capicastrum

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Aeschynanthus Tricolor

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Ilex Cornuta

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Psammasia Sclerophylla

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Higginsia Regalis

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Ilex Aquifolium

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Abies Jezoensis

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Phyllocladus Hypophylla

Azalea Indica Vittata

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Framed in a lovely antiqued-gold frame measuring about 13.25 x 16.25 inches,
with an antique-white mat

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Bignonia Speciosa

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Framed in a classy antiqued-silverish gold frame measuring about 13.25 x 16.25 inches,
with an antique-white mat that has a blue marbled paper border

Trichopilia Suavis

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Framed in an elegant antiqued-silverish gold oak leaf frame measuring about 13.25 x 16.25 inches,
with an antique-white mat that has a pale-salmon-colored marbled paper border

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