Charles Henry Philippe Lévêque (Henry) de Vilmorin
1843–99
French botanist. Took over the Paris seed firm of Vilmorin–Andrieux in 1873. Worked on the hybridisation of wheat.
Sources
Heuzé 1899
H. F. Roberts 1929, pp. 151–4
Bibliography
Heuzé, Gustave. 1899. Les Vilmorin. Revue horticole (1899): 453–9.
Roberts, H. F. 1929. Plant hybridisation before Mendel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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