Joseph Van Hoorde

Joseph Van Hoorde (1818–1853) was a Belgian horticulturalist, first head gardener of the botanical garden in Mechelen.

Life

Van Hoorde was born in Gentbrugge on 13 September 1818, the son of a gardener. At sixteen he was apprenticed to a horticulturalist in Ghent, later going on to work in Paris.[1] In 1837 a horticultural society was founded in Mechelen, which in 1839 was granted the use of the garden of the former commandery of Pitzembourg. On 4 June 1840 the city's new botanical garden was opened to the public, with Van Hoorde as head gardener. The greenhouses, built in 1851, were to his design.[1] He died in Mechelen on 12 February 1853, holding a white camellia japonica that he had bred and with which he asked to be buried.[1] A white marble plaque in the main greenhouse of the garden is engraved with a camellia in his memory. By crossing strains he bred a dwarf araucaria imbricata.[1]

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References
  1. Émile Van Arenbergh, "Van Hoorde, Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 9 (Brussels, 1887), 459-460.
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