Paul Évariste Parmentier

Paul Évariste Parmentier (29 April 1860, in Semmadon – 10 May 1941, in Besancon) was a French agronomist and botanist.

He taught classes in the communities of Arbois (1882–89) and Baume-les-Dames (1889–98), and in the meantime, received his degree in natural sciences at Besançon (1889) and his doctorate from the University of Lyon (1892). From 1892 he was a professor of agricultural botany at the faculty of sciences of Besancon, where he taught classes up until 1930. At Besancon, he also served as director of its botanical garden.^[1]

From 1902 to 1919 he was director of the agricultural station of Franche-Comté. From 1903 up until his death, he served as president of the Société d'Horticulture du Doubs (Horticultural Society of Doubs).^[1]

Selected works

• Contribution à l'étude du genre Pulmonaria, 1891 – Contribution to the study of Pulmonaria.
• Histologie comparée des Ébénacées dans ses rapports avec la morphologie et l'histoire généalogique des ces plantes, 1892 – Comparative histology of Ebenaceae. Relationship involving the morphology and genetic history of these plants.
• Histoire des Magnoliacées, 1895 – On Magnoliaceae.
• Abiétinées du département du Doubs au point de vue de l'arboriculture et de la sylviculture, 1895 – Firs of Doubs department from the viewpoint of arboriculture and forestry.
• Flore nouvelle de la chaîne jurassique & de la Haute-Saône, à l'usage du botaniste herborisant, 1895 – New flora of the Jura chain and of Haute-Saône.
• Recherches anatomiques et taxinomiques sur les rosiers, 1898 – Anatomical and taxonomic research of roses.
• Traité élémentaire et pratique de botanique agricole, 1902 – Elementary and practical treatise of agricultural botany.
• Les noyers et les carya en France : espèces et variétés - culture - maladies - produits, 1912 – The walnut and hickory trees of France; species and varieties, cultivation, diseases, products.
• Leçons de botanique appliquée a l'horticulture et notions d'horticulture pratique, 1924 – Botanical lessons applied to horticulture and concepts of practical horticulture.^[2]

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