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

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

Gorgeous 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

Please click on a thumbnail to see the entire plate.
(The digital watermark is to deter image theft and does not appear on the actual print.)

BELOW ARE THE SINGLE PAGE PRINTS FROM Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe
FOR DOUBLE PAGE PRINTS, PLEASE CLICK HERE

Clematis Graveolens
Epidendrum Lacertinum
Clematis Grahami

$15

Dendrobium macranthum, etc.

$10

Dioscorea Batatas

$15

Analyses du Coryanthes Albertinae

$10

Pinus Bourcieri

$15

Euryale ferox, etc.

$10

Altise des Potager, etc.

$35

Insectes utiles

$15

Plantations de Thé
[Tea Plantations]
Vue prise dans le district du Thé Vert
[View in the Green Tea district of China]

$50

[mounted/matted in beige-colored mat with outside dimensions of about 10x12.25 inches]

Fontaine projetée à Rome

$35

La Fontaine de l'Empereur de Russie

$35

Un concours, au bon vieux temps

$15

Le Jardin de la Société d'Horticulture de Londres, à Chiswick, pendant l'Exposition

$35

Grande fête horticulturale à Boston
[Etats Unis]

$35

Rio de Janeiro

$25

Le Palais de Cristal de Sydenham
(Vue prise de la terrasse)

$15

Le Palais de Cristal de Sydenham
(Vue intérieure)

$15

Le Palais de Cristal de Cheltenham destiné aux expositions florales

$15

Moulin à vent auto-régulateur

$25

Ornements divers
Fabrique de Panta à Mètz

$20

Villa de Mr. le Consul Schiller,
sur les bords de l'Elbe

$25

Coupe des serres et de l'aquarium du jardin de M. Oppenheim, à Cologne

$20

Serres et de l'aquarium du jardin de M. Oppenheim, à Cologne

$25

Palais de Cristal (Salle Nubienne)

$20

Jardin du Palais de Cristal
(Races éteintes.)
(Groupe de Labyrinthodons.)

Fabrication des Tuyaux de Drainage

$20

Fabrication des Tuyaux de Drainage

$15

John Lindley

$25

Louis Van Houtte

(also available are about
30 pages of text relating to Van Houtte, his funeral, monument, etc.) written almost entirely in French. Please inquire if interested.)

$50

"Single-page lithographs"
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"Double-page lithographs"
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