> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 403](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066743) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11798-1) LSID 11798-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1599341) QID Q1599341 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Witte, Heinrich (1825-1917), Dutch gardener; student gardener in the Hortus botanicus Rotterdam; subsequently assistant curator at the Leiden botanical garden; head-curator ib. 1855-1898. **Abbreviated name**: *Witte* \[standard form in IPNI: *Witte*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 510; BM 5: 2344; Herder p. 149, 152; Hortus 3: 1207; Jackson p. 48, 51, 52, 55, 86, 147, 324; JW 1: 451, 2: 204, 3: 376; Morren ed. 2, p. 28, ed. 10, p. 91; MW p. 533; NI 2174-2175; Plesch p. 462; PR 10365-10367; Rehder 5: 928; Sotheby 821; TL-2/11.960; Tucker 1: 751. #### Biofile - Anon., Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 18: 429. 1895 (jubilee), ser. 3. 61: 67. 1917 (obit. not.); Gartenflora 44: 552, 574-575. 1895 (40 years "hortulanus"). - L., v., Onze Tuinen 11(31): 371-374. 1917 (obit., list publ., portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 29, 272. 1936, 5: 512. 1939. - Vuyck, L., Afscheid en welkom, Leiden 1898, 20 p. (reprinted from Sempervirens 27(14): 145-151. 1898, portr.). - Witte, E.Th., Jaarb. Gesch. Oudheidk. Leiden Rijnland 15: xli-liv. 1918 (obit., b. 10 Mai 1829, d. 9 Jan 1917). #### Composite works - (1) Editor of the Dutch horticultural journals *Sempervirens* (1872-1875, 1884-1897), *Nederlandsch Tuinbouwblad Sempervirens* (1897-1905), *Sieboldia* (1875-1884). - (2) Collaborator, C.A.J.A. Oudemans, *Neerl. pl.-tuin* 1865-1867, TL-2/7148. - (3) Translated C.J. Petzold, *Die Rose*, ihre Geschichte, 1874 into Dutch: *De Roos*, hare geschiedenis,... Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1877, 86 p. #### Note Witte was a successful and prolific popularizer of botany and horticulture; a list of 47 titles of books and brochures is given in *Onze Tuinen* 20 Jan 1917; he also published several novels and travelogues and published widely in daily journals and periodicals. ### Publications ##### n.18.089. Enumeratio alphabetica nominum systematicorum et synonymorum palmarum **Title** *Enumeratio alphabetica nominum systematicorum et synonymorum palmarum*, quae in Belgii septentrionalis hortis diversis, tarn publicis quam privatis, coluntur... Lugduni-batavorum (apud A.W. Sijthoff) 1859. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Enum. palm.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1859, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-47 (printed on one side of each leaf). *Copies*: BR, U. – Also published, anonymously, in Ann. Hort. Bot., Fl. Jardins Pays Bas 3: 9-16, 25-32, 41-48, 57-64, 73-80, 89-95. 1860. ##### n.18.090. Flora **Title** *Flora*. Afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van boomen, heesters, éénjarige planten, enz., voorkomende in de Nederlandsche tuinen,... Groningen (J.B. Wolters) \[1868\]. Qu. (in 2-s). **Abbreviated title**: *Flora*. **Notes** *Artist*: Abraham Jacobus Wendel (1826-1915). *Publ*.: 1868 (p. x: 19 Oct 1868), p. \[i\*-ii\*\], *pl. 80* (frontisp.), \[i\]-x, \[1\]-316, \[i\]-vii, *pl. 1-79* \[frontisp. numbered *80* in index\] (chromoliths.). *Copies*: HH, Mennega, NY. ##### n.18.091. De plant **Title** *De plant*,... Groningen (J.B. Wolters) 1869. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Plant*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1869 (p. vi: 20 Oct 1868), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-404. *Copy*: FAS. *Ed. 2*: Apr 1883 (Bot. Zeit. 29 Jun 1883; Bot. Centralbl. 18-22 Jun 1883; Nat. Nov. Mai(2) 1883), p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-320. *Copy*: BR. – *De plant*. Proeve eener populaire botanie door H. Witte... 2e uitgave herzien door Ernest Burvenich... Gent (Algemeene Boekhandel van Ad. Hoste,...) 1883. Oct. ##### n.18.092. Schetsen uit het plantenrijk **Title** *Schetsen uit het plantenrijk*... Haarlem (A.C. Kruseman) 1870. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Schets. plantenr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1870, p. \[i-ii\], frontisp., p. \[iii\]-xvi, \[1\]-526. *40 pl*. (uncol. liths.). *Copy*: HH. ##### n.18.093. De Victoria regia **Title** *De Victoria regia*... Leiden (A.W. Sijthoff) 1876. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Victoria regia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1876, p. \[i, iii\], \[1\]-40. *Copies*: HH, L, U. ##### n.18.094. Wilde rozen **Title** *Wilde rozen*,... Leiden (E.J. Brill) \[1888\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Wilde rozen*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1888 (p. v: 18 Nov 1888), portr., p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-344, \[345\]. *Copies*: HH, MO.