Hybridizer Dr. Marc Simonet (1889-1965)

France - Antibes (Alpes Maritimes)

Ingenieur horticole, docteur de L'Universite, ingenieur-docteur, head of the research department at the Caisse nationale des Sciences, he was for a long time chief of the Genetical and Pathological Laboratory of Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux and with Mons. Meunissier, author of many important works. His special department is work with chromosomes and he wrote a large treatise on that subject. He is now head of the Centre de Recherches d'Antibes, a scientific and at the same time, practical institution. He has made many interesting crosses between different Iris Sections and has in his possession most of the plants left by the late Mons. Denis. He should be able to do much with the less hardy ones in the favorable climate where he is now situated. It was Dr. Simonet who suggested the Section Dykesiana as a result of his researsh. (A.I.S Alphabetical Iris Check List, 1939)

Also see Scientist Dr. Marc Simonet.

Botanical author/registrations/introductions
Arilbreds:

• 1934: 'Autosyndetica'
• 'Koriantha', 'Koris'

Species:

• 1935: Iris perrieri Simonet ex Fournier
• 'Balkana-Simonet Form'

Species Hybrids:

• 1938: 'Orientosa'

Spurias:

• 1964: 'Belise'

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