Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe
Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe ( Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe ) was a botanical journal published from 1845 to 1888, which was known for its elaborate and elaborate depictions of plants.
history
The magazine was founded in 1844 by Louis van Houtte , a gardener and tree nursery owner from Gentbrugge (now part of Ghent). The first issue appeared in April 1845. The magazine initially appeared monthly. However, since the technical editing was associated with enormous work, van Houtte, whose nursery and tree nursery grew strongly, lacked the necessary time, which is why the magazine appeared at irregular intervals from 1850 and with a different number of issues per year. In some years the magazine did not appear at all; between 1845 and 1888 there were a total of 23 volumes.
The first year of the magazine appeared in the three languages French, English and German, from the second year the magazine was only published in French. The Flore des serres et des Jardins de l'Europe was very popular despite the high subscription price and reached a circulation of 1,000 in its second year.
The magazine presented ornamental plants , new varieties and botanical curiosities that were newly introduced to Europe . Van Houtte offered most of the plants presented for sale in his nursery, so that the magazine also served as an advertisement for van Houtte's nursery and served as a catalog supplementing the nursery's price lists published several times a year.
From 1854 Ambroise Verschaffelt , who also owned a large nursery and tree nursery in Gentbrugge and was thus a direct competitor of van Houtte, published the magazine L'illustration horticole . The subtitle of this magazine was Revue mensuelle des Serres & des Jardins , with which Verschaffelt clearly emulated van Houtte's successful magazine. Van Houtte's close collaborators, the editor Charles Lemaire and the lithographers Louis-Constantin Stroobant and Pieter Pannemaeker finally switched to Verschaffelt.
editorial staff
Van Houtte remained the editor-in-chief and chief editor until his death. Other editors of the magazine were also initially Michael Scheidweiler (1799–1861), who also taught at van Houtte's school for gardeners, and the botanist Charles Lemaire , who had previously published the botanical journals Jardin Fleuriste and L'Horticulteur universel . After Lemaire's departure, Jules Émile Planchon took over his position in the editorial office. When he resigned in 1854, van Houtte appointed Joseph Decaisne to the editorial team, who, however, also only held this position briefly.
In the course of time, van Houtte succeeded in winning numerous well-known botanists for the editorial office of the journal, including Carl Ludwig Blume , Adolphe Brongniart , Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle , Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer , Heinrich Göppert , Adrien de Jussieu , Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel , Achille Richard , August de St. Hilaire and Willem Hendrik de Vriese .
Illustrations
In addition to the high scientific standards of the published descriptions of plants, it was the colored botanical illustrations in particular that established the journal's outstanding international reputation. The illustrations are hand-colored lithographs. Van Houtte had his own studio built on the site of his tree nursery. He employed for creating the pictures at times up to 100 employees, in addition to botanical illustrators, lithographers, wood carver , lithographer , colorists and printers. The lithographer Louis-Constantin Stroobant (1814–1872), a brother of the lithographer and painter François Stroobant , was one of van Houtte's most important botanical illustrators in the first ten years. He also employed the well-known botanical lithographers Pieter de Pannemaeker and Guillaume Severeyns. Pannemaeker was awarded the French Order of Merit Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 1886 for his contribution to botany, which he had made through his ornate botanical lithographs .
In total, more than 2,000 colored botanical illustrations were published in the 23 years of the magazine.
Web links
- Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe on the homepage of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Van Houtte, Louis Benoit. In: Frans Antonie Stafleu, Richard Cowan: Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Volume 6. Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht 1986, pp. 670-675.
- ↑ Gustave Guilmont: Louis Van Houtte. In: Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe - Annales generales d'Horticulture. Volume 22, Gent 1877, pp. I-XXIV.
- ↑ A trip to Belgium and the Netherlands in the first spring of 1862 - 6. Louis van Houtte's commercial gardening and gardening school in Ghent. In: Weekly of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States for Horticulture and Herbology. Volume 5, published by Karl Wiegandt, Berlin 1862, pp. 226-230.
- ^ Wilhelm Neubert: Van Houtte's price list and his Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe. In: German magazine for garden and flower science - magazine for garden and flower friends, and gardeners. Volume 6, Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1853, p. 369.
- ↑ Diststinction a MPJ Pannemaeker. In: L'Illustration horticole: journal spécial des serres et des jardins. 33rd volume. Compagnie Continentale d'Horticulture, Gent 1886, p. 36.