Pierre Antoine Marie Crozy (1831-1903)
lso called Crozy aîné—French for "elder"was a nineteenth-century
French
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rose
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breeder. He was a partner in the French firm, Avoux & Crozy, La Guillotière,
Lyon
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, actively breeding roses from the 1850s to 1860s. From the early 1860s until his death in 1903 he was also hybridising ''
Canna'' species, and introduced many hundreds of new
cultivar
A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...
s. The largest Canna Group today is still called the ''Crozy Group'', and many of those cultivars are still being raised.
The most famous of the cultivars introduced by Crozy was
Canna 'Madame Crozy'
''Canna'' 'Madame Crozy' is a medium-sized 'Crozy Group' canna cultivar; green foliage, large, ovoid shaped, branching habit; oval stems, coloured red; spikes of flowers are open, scarlet with a narrow gold margin, throat gold with vermilion spot ...
, and this was later used by both
Carl Sprenger
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Carl Ludwig Sprenger was a German botanist, born on 30 November 1846 at Güstrow, Mecklenburg and died 13 December 1917 on the island of Corfu (Kérkyra).
Sprenger lived in Naples from 1877 to 1907, and was a partner in the horticultur ...
in Italy and
Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.
He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations incl ...
in California to cross with the species
Canna ''flaccida'' to produce the first of the Italian Group Cannas.
Crozy was succeeded by his son,
Michel Crozy (1871-1908).
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Burbank, Luther - How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man: Plant Breeding
* Chaté, E - ''Le Canna'', 1866
* Cooke, I - ''The Gardeners Guide to Growing Canna'', Timber Press, 2001
* RHS - ''RHS Dictionary of Gardening'', 1992.
* Roll Call: The Old Rose Breeder
External links
Help me findRHS, Canna Trial 2002
See also
* Canna (plant)
''Canna'' or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Cannaceae, consisting of 10 species.The Cannaceae of the World, H. Maas-van der Kamer & P.J.M. Maas, BLUMEA 53: 247-318 Cannas are not true lilies, but have been assi ...
* List of Canna cultivars
* List of Canna species
''Canna (plant), Canna'' species have been categorised by two different taxonomists in the course of the last three decades. They are Paulus Johannes Maria Maas, Paul Maas, from the Netherlands and Nobuyuki Tanaka from Japan.Tanaka, N. (2001) Taxo ...
* List of Canna hybridists
The first hybridisation of Cannas was performed in 1848, and since then many Canna hybridizers have made their contribution to the genus over the centuries. This is a date ordered list of those people and their brief stories.
1848 Théodore Anné ...
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French horticulturists
Rose breeders
1831 births
1903 deaths