Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac (6 March 1830 in Granges-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne - 26 January 1911, botanical author abbreviation: Lat.-Marl.) was a French lawyer and horticulturalist noted for breeding water lily hybrids. Latour-Marliac founded a water lily nursery at
Le Temple-sur-Lot in 1875. A display of his plants at the
Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris attracted the attention of the painter
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...
who then obtained water lilies for his garden in
from Latour-Marliac.
[Eyewitness Travel Family Guide France, Penguin Books, 2014, p. 273]
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1830 births
1911 deaths
French gardeners