Élie-Abel Carrière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Élie-Abel Carrière

French Botanist

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1818

Place of Birth: May-en-Multien, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 17-Aug-1896

Profession: writer, gardener, botanist, horticulturist, pteridologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Élie-Abel Carrière

  • Élie-Abel Carrière (4 June 1818 – 17 August 1896) was a French botanist, based in Paris.
  • He was a leading authority on conifers in the period 1850–1870, describing many new species, and the new genera Tsuga, Keteleeria and Pseudotsuga.
  • His most important work was the Traité Général des Conifères, published in 1855, with a second, extensively revised edition in 1867. There is a brief biography of Carrière, in English, in the journal Brittonia.In addition to his studies of conifers, he published a number of works in the field of horticulture: Guide pratique du jardinier multiplicateur: ou art de propager les végétaux par semis, boutures, greffes, etc.
  • (1856)-- book on propagation of plants by seeds, cuttings, grafts. Flore des jardins de l'Europe: manuel général des plantes, arbres et arbustes, comprenant leur origine, description, culture : leur application aux jardins d'agrément, à l'agriculture, aux forêts, aux usages domestiques, aux arts et à l'industrie.
  • Et classés selon la méthode de Decandolle par Jacques et Hérincq, (Flora of the gardens of Europe: general handbook of plants, trees and shrubs, including their origin, description, culture: their application to ornamental gardens, to agriculture, forests, domestic, arts and industry.
  • And classified according to the method by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle with Henri Antoine Jacques and François Hérincq) / Paris: Librairie agricole de la Maison rustique, (1857) Entretiens familiers sur l'horticulture (1860) Encyclopédie horticole (1862) -- Horticulture encyclopedia Production et fixation des variétés dans les végétaux (1865) Origine des plantes domestiques démontrée par la culture du radis sauvage (1869) -- Origin of domesticated plants demonstrated by culture of wild radish. Semis et mise à fruit des arbres fruitiers (1881). In 1880, he described Iris orchioides.

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