Elisa de Vilmorin (d. 1868)

French horticulturist. Born Elisa Bailly. Married Pierre Louis François Léveque de Vilmorin in 1841. President of the Paris seed firm Vilmorin-Andrieux et Cie, 1860–6. Published papers on the breeding of strawberries.

Sources

Barnhart 1965

Gardeners’ Chronicle (1868): 899

Heuzé 1899

Journal of Horticulture 40 (1868): 134.