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Rose Breeder
Listing last updated on Sat Apr 2025
Villeurbanne, Rhône-alpes
France
Bernaix fils (Pierre), Villeurbanne, France (September 6, 1873 - March 26, 1935). The nursery was taken over by Jules Ducroz prior to September 1930.
[From Lyon horticole, 1906, Compte Rendu ...1905, p. 22:] Bernaix, Pierre fis, rosiériste, chemin de la Bouteille, à Villeurbanne (Rb.).Grande culture spèciale de Rosiers en collection. Nouveautés.
[From Lyon horticole, April 1935, p. 70:] M. P. Bernaix est décédé le 26 mars 1935, âgé de 61 ans. Il était vice-président de la Société Française des Rosiéristes et appartenait à notre Société d'Horticulture depuis 1894. Commandeur du Mérite agricole, Officier d’Académie, il était Conseiller municipal de Villeurbanne. Ses obsèques ont eu lieu le 28 mars au cimetière de Cusset. [Obituary June 1935, p. 110-111]
[From Les Amis des Roses, March-April 1935, p. 42:] Le 28 Mars dernier, les rosiéristes lyonnais accompagnaient leur collègue Pierre BERNAIX à sa dernière demeure ....Né en 1873 de parents horticulteurs, il continua dès son jeune âge la profession paternelle, et en 1895 il succéda à son père Alexandre BERNAIX, fondateur de l'Etablissement rosicole, qui jouissait déjà d'une grande réputation. ...En 1896, Pierre BERNAIX quoique bien absorbé par son commerce, prit une large part à la fondation de la Société française des Rosiéristes....
[From Lyon horticole, December 1935, p. 227:] M. Ducroz, successeur de M. P. Bernaix, 14-16, rue Emile Décorps à Villeurbanne
[From A Rose Odyssey, by J.H. Nicolas, p. 16:] ...Pierre Bernaix sold his business to his head grower, J. Ducroz....He developed neurasthenia and became obsessed with the fear of death. He gradually began to "enjoy poor health", always imagining an ache or a pain somewhere, and much of his time was consumed in doctors' offices...He died in 1935, probably, as his friends said, of too many diets ("une indigestion de régimes")!
[From Modern Roses II, p. 19:] P. Bernaix, Villeurbanne-Lyon, Rhone, France. (Succeeded by J. Ducroz.)
[From The Book on Roses, by Dr. G. Griffin Lewis, p. 137:] Pierre Bernaix, Lyons, France, was born on September 6, 1873.
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