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Peony breeder   Listing last updated on 08 Jul 2020.
France
Nicolas Lemon, Porte St. Denis, France (1766 - 1836). Intoduced at least 5 peonies and a number of iris c 1825. Established his nursery in Belleville in 1815.

[From Le Bon Jardinier, 1826, p. xxvii:] Vers 1816, M. Lemon a le premier commencé à répandre à Paris le goût de la culture et de la multiplication d'un choix de geranium remarquables...La place de M. Lemon, sur Marché-aux-Fleurs...

[From The Gardener's Magazine, 1827, p. 59:] About 1816, M. Lemon began to spread a taste in Paris for the finer sorts of geraniums, and his stand in the flower-market continues to be distinguished by a display of these flowers.

[From Revue Horticole, July 1832, p. 81:] M. Lemon, jardinier-fleuriste, rue Desnoyers, barrière de Belleville, à Paris.

[From Annales de Flore et de Pomone, Vol. 5, January 1837, p. 126:] [Obituary of M. Lémon]...Né, en 1766, de parens exerçant l'état de vigneron , il n'avait plus à cinq ans ni père ni mère, et dès-lors il fut élevé au château de La Malgrange, près de Nancy, par un oncle qui en était jardinier...A seize ans, il fut amené à Paris par le maréchal Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, et resta pendant trois ans occupé dans ses jardins. Il entra ensuite chez M. Bicquelin, où il contribua, durant neuf ans, au succès de ses cultures....En 1815 il en sortit pour venir s'établir à Belleville , où il se livra spécialement à la culture des ananas...Beaucoup d'autres plantes ont été successivement l'objet de ses cultures spéciales; mais, en même temps, il réunissait dans son établissement des végétaux rares et choisis dont il a introduit plusieurs en France..... La Société royale d'Horticulture lui a décerné deux médailles, l'une d'argent en 1829, l'autre d'or en 1832.....

[From The Book of the Peony by Alice Harding, 1917, p. 49-50:] ....probably the first man in Europe to raise peonies from seeds and to offer the best of these as named sorts was M. Lemon of the Porte St. Denis, Paris. As far back as 1824 (about the time when hybrid perpetual roses began to be popular) , he raised a lot of seedlings of P. officinalis from which came P. anemoniflora alba and P. grandiflora nivea plena. The last named of these—white, shaded with salmon, — though one of the oldest hybrids, even now ranks among the best. In the same year, P. edulis superba—a peony still much grown—was also produced by Lemon. In 1830, he originated P. sulphurea—white, tinted yellowish green—a kind sufficiently attractive to be cultivated to-day. Lemon achieved not only greatly desired modifications in colour and form, but also a pleasing fragrance which exists in most of his

[From American Peony Society Bulletin, 1928, p. 14:] LEMON, NICOLAS. Located at Porte St. Denis near Paris. Probably one of the first to grow peonies from seed in Europe. Had his first batch in 1824; it included grandiflora nivea, sinensis odorata, anemoneflora alba, grandiflora carnea plena; papaveriflora in 1825; Humei alba, 1830; edulis superba, 1824 (not 1924, sec Manual, p. 91); prolifera tricolor, 1825; formosa, 1824; bicolor, 1835; carnea grandiflora, 1835 (?); ligulata, 1830 (?); lutea variegata, 1830 (?); odorata,....
 
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