Jean François Laterrade was a French botanist who was a native of Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

. He was a founding member of Linnean Society of Bordeaux, and was director of the botanical garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

 at Bordeaux.

In 1811 Laterrade published a work involving flora found in the environs of Bordeaux called Flore bordelaise, ou Tableau des plantes qui croissent naturellement aux environs de Bordeaux. This book was re-issued in 1821, 1829 and 1846. In 1823 he founded a popular agricultural

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

journal titled L'Ami des champs (Friends of the Fields).