Rose Breeder  

Listing last updated on Sat Jan 2025

Rue des Femmes
Gent,
Belgium

[From The Gardener's Magazine, 1827, p. 88] ...M. Josse Verleeuwen, nurseryman and florist at Ghent....

[From Rosetum Gallicum, by Narcisse Desportes, 1828, p. 124:]VERLEEUWEN, rue Longue-de-la-Vigne, n.^o 2, à Gand (Pays-Bas).

[From Le Bon jardinier, 1829, p. xciv:] Gand ... M. VERLEEUWEN, pépiniériste et fleuriste, est très-habile cultivateur son jardin est très-bien assorti en plantes de pleine terre et de serre : il est aussi dans l'usage de mettre plusieurs de celles-ci en pleine terre à nu pendant l'été, et il s'en trouve bien. J'ai remarqué chez lui plusieurs Driandra très-rares, le Correa pulchella, l'Azalea purpurascens, Correa ligustrina, Patersonia glauca, et différens Hakea que je ne connaissais pas.

[From The Gardener's Magazine, August 1834, p. 359] The first is that of Messieurs Verleeuwen, brothers, who cultivate a good collection of exotic plants. Their grounds, although small, contain two neat houses for stove plants, and six for New Holland plants and camellias : one of the latter has been lately built, with a large bed in the back for the planting out of the newest and best varieties. The place is altogether in good keeping, and the plants are exceedingly healthy. Messrs. Verleeuwen have commenced growing Oichideae within the last year; and some good and rare species of these plants have been lately imported, by one of the brothers, from England.