Séraphin Joseph Mottet

Séraphin Joseph Mottet (1861-1930) was a French horticulturalist, noted for being an expert on irises.{{cite web |title=Hybridizer Séraphin-Joseph Mottet (1861-1930) |url=http://wiki.irises.org/Main/Bio/HybridizerMottetSeraphin |website=Iris Encyclopedia |publisher=The American Iris Society |accessdate=9 August 2018}}{{cite journal |title=Mottet, Séraphin Joseph (1861-1930) |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000381173 |website=Global Plants |publisher=JSTOR |accessdate=9 August 2018}}{{cite journal |last1=Mabberley |first1=D. J. |title=A note on the chestnut vine and Séraphin Mottet's 'Dictionnaire Pratique d'Horticulture et Jardinage' (1892 –1899) |journal=Blumea |date=2018 |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=240–244 |doi=10.3767/blumea.2018.62.03.06 |url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/655169 |accessdate=9 August 2018 |quote=Séraphin-Joseph Mottet (1861–1930), a horticulturist and prolific writer (Lesourd 1930), was born in Paris, worked in Lyon and Marseille and in 1880 settled back in Paris, where he worked for the great nursery firm, Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. He was an authority on, among other things, irises, and wrote monographs on Eremurus (Asphodelaceae), Primula (Primulaceae) and, with G. Boucher, Clematis (Ranunculaceae).|doi-access=free }}

In 1927, Mottet was awarded by The British Iris Society, the Foster Memorial Plaque (named after Michael Foster).{{cite web |title=InfoFosterMemorialPlaque < Main < Iris Wiki |url=https://wiki.irises.org/Main/InfoFosterMemorialPlaque |website=wiki.irises.org |access-date=1 August 2021}}

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