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Bonnot Floral Depot owned by botanist Frederick Dressel, Jersey City, New Jersey

Year: 1880 • Collection: Dressel

Frederick Dressel was the son of Friedrich Hermann Ferdinand Dressel, nephew of Anne Marie Dressel Schuchmann of Charleston, South Carolina. Frederick, born in 1861, trained as a botanist in Hesse-Darmstadt and London before emigrating to New Jersey and establishing a career there. He managed the Bonnot Floral Depot in on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, and also pursued a career as a hybridizer and collector rare ferns, orchids, and other exotic plants, sometimes traveling to South and Central America to bring back specimens. Frederick married Emma Schmidt in 1893 and they had three children.

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