Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac

Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac (March 6, 1830, in Granges-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne - January 26, 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 who then obtained water lilies for his garden in Giverny from Latour-Marliac.[1]

Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac
Drawing of Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac published in 1893.
Born(1830-03-06)March 6, 1830
Granges-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France
DiedJanuary 26, 1911(1911-01-26) (aged 80)
NationalityFrench
Occupationlawyer and horticulturist
Known forwater lily hybrids

References
  1. Eyewitness Travel Family Guide France, Penguin Books, 2014, p. 273
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