Marie Auguste Rivière

Marie Auguste Rivière (8 January 1821 1877) was a French horticulturalist and pomologist.

Born into a family of horticulturalists, in 1859 he was appointed head gardener of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. From 1868 he was a senior manager at the Jardin du Hamma, located near Algiers. Rivière's specialities included orchids, fruit trees, roses and vineyards.[1]

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