Séraphin Joseph Mottet (1861-1930) was a French horticulturalist, noted for being an expert on irises.[1][2][3]

In 1927, Mottet was awarded by The British Iris Society, the Foster Memorial Plaque (named after Michael Foster).[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hybridizer Séraphin-Joseph Mottet (1861-1930)". Iris Encyclopedia. The American Iris Society. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Mottet, Séraphin Joseph (1861-1930)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  3. ↑ Mabberley, D. J. (2018). "A note on the chestnut vine and Séraphin Mottet's 'Dictionnaire Pratique d'Horticulture et Jardinage' (1892 –1899)". Blumea. 62 (3): 240–244. doi:10.3767/blumea.2018.62.03.06. Retrieved 9 August 2018. Séraphin-Joseph Mottet (1861–1930), a horticulturist and prolific writer (Lesourd 1930), was born in Paris, worked in Lyon and Marseille and in 1880 settled back in Paris, where he worked for the great nursery firm, Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. He was an authority on, among other things, irises, and wrote monographs on Eremurus (Asphodelaceae), Primula (Primulaceae) and, with G. Boucher, Clematis (Ranunculaceae).
  4. ↑ "InfoFosterMemorialPlaque < Main < Iris Wiki". wiki.irises.org. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
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