Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>December</span></a> 11, 1911<br /><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> Victor <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Lemoine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lemoine</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>French</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Flower" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Flower</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Breeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Breeder</span></a>, died.</p><p>Incredibly, Lemoine didn&#39;t start working on <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Lilacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lilacs</span></a> - his <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Greatest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greatest</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Legacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Legacy</span></a> - until he was almost 50. He made them <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Bloom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bloom</span></a> earlier &amp; later, expanded the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Color" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Color</span></a>, &amp; grew the first <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Double" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Double</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Lilac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lilac</span></a>.</p><p>His <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Wife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wife</span></a>, Marie, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HandPollinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HandPollinated</span></a> thousands of Lilac <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Flowers</span></a>.</p><p>When the Lemoine <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Nursery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nursery</span></a> closed in 1968, the Lemoine&#39;s had bred 214 new <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Cultivars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cultivars</span></a> of<br />Lilac.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MadameLemoineLilac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MadameLemoineLilac</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Garden</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Gardener" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gardener</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GardenersofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GardenersofMastodon</span></a></p>