> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 254](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120385) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/911-1) LSID 911-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3045181) QID Q3045181 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bois, Désiré (Georges Jean Marie) (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bois, Désiré Georges Jean Marie (1856-1946), French horticulturist at the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle. **Abbreviated name**: *D. Bois* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bois*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]] (main collections), duplicates [[Collection A|A]], [[Collection AMES|AMES]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 738; Barnhart 1: 211; BFM 2909; BL 1: 5 , 35, 2: 7, 138, 178; BM 1: 188, 6: 104; Kew 1: 284; Langman p. 145; MW p. 46; MW suppl. p. 26; NI 187; Plesch p. 147. - Gagnepain, Fl. Indochine, tome prél, 35. 1944. - Guillaumin, Bull. Soc. bot. France 93: 15-118. 1946 (portr.) - Vilmorin, Bull. Soc. nat. Acclim., Paris 92: 124-125. 1945. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males ser. I. I: 69-60. 1950 (portr.) - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Garden 34. 1973 (corr.) ### Publications ##### n.601. Atlas de plantes de jardins et d'appartements **Title** *Atlas de plantes de jardins et d'appartements* exotiques et européennes 320 planches coloriées inédites, dessinées d'après nature représentant 370 plantes. Accompagnées d'un texte explicatif donnant la description, l'origine, le mode de culture, de multiplication et les usages des fleurs les plus généralement cultivées. Paris (Paul Klincksieck) \[1891-\] 1896, 3 vols. **Abbreviated title**: *Atl. pl. jard.* **Notes** *Publ*.: In 40 parts between 1891 and 1896. The parts contained eight plates each, accompanied by a provisional text. After completion the definitive text (440 p.) was published in Mar-Apr 1896. Parts 1-9 have covers dated 1891, 10 and 11 1893, nos. 1-6 were available by Jul 1892 (publ. late 1891-Jul 1892), parts 7-15 by Jul 1893 (Nat. Nov.). The 320 plates are chromo-lithographs by B. Hering. Some of these plates are included in Step, Favourite flowers for garden and greenhouse (1896-1897). *Texte*: Mar-Apr 1896 (p. vii: Jan 1896; Nat. Nov. Apr 1896), p. \[i\]-vi, \[2, note, table\], \[1\]-432. *Coples*: BR, G. *Plates* \[1\]: 1891-1893/4, p. \[1\]- *8, pl. 1-160. Copies*: G, MO. *Plates* \[2\]: 1893/4-1896, p. \[1\]-8, *pl. 161-320. Coples*: BR, G. *Ref*.: GF p. 50; NI 187. ##### n.602. Dictionnaire d'horticulture **Title** *Dictionnaire d'horticulture* illustré de 959 figures dans le texte, dont 403 en couleurs et de 6 plans coloriés hors texte pai D. Bois...préface de Maxime Cornu... avec la collaboration de MM. Ed. André, Ch. Baltet, F. Cayeux, H. Correvon, J. Daveau, Dr Delacroix, A. Finet, J. Gérome, A. Ch. Girard, A. Godefroy, C. Grosdemange, A. Guion, T. Hariot, L. Henry, Em. Laurent, P. Mouillefert, J. Nanot, A. Pavard, E. Pynaert, E. Roze, P. Tertrin, Dr Trouessart, Dr Weber, etc. Dessins par H. Gillet, A. Jobin et L. Planet, Paris (Paul Klincksieck) 1893-1899, 2 parts. **Abbreviated title**: *Dict. hort.* **Notes** *Publ*.: In 40 fascicles, the contents and precise parts of which are unknown to us. Contains a number of first descriptions of Cactaceae by Weber. *Partie 1*: 1893-1899 (t.p.; p. 8: Feb 1893; livr. 1-5 Nat. Nov. Jul 1893), p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-640, *fig. 1-455. Copy*: BR. *Partie 2*: 1893-1899 (t.p.), p. \[i-iii\], 641-1227, \[1228, err.\], 6 pl., *fig*. 456-959. *Copy*: BR. *Ref*.: BM 1: 188; MW p. 46.