John Richmond Booth
John Richmond Booth (born November 19, 1799 in Klein Flottbek ; † September 14, 1847 ibid) was a German plant breeder and owner of a tree nursery .
Live and act
John Richmond Booth was the son of the gardener and tree nursery owner James Booth , who came from Scotland and had been convinced by Caspar Voght to work for him in Flottbek near Altona.
The early death of his father in 1814 and the general economic situation of Altona and the nearby Hamburg after its siege were not a favorable prerequisite for an economic operation with the cultivation and trade of plants, with that of seeds and flower bulbs and the tree nursery. Before John Richmond, who was only 15 years old when his father died, he and his older brother James Godfrey and younger brother George (1804–1866) could take over the tree nursery James Booth & Sons , the business was probably taken over by the gardener and Head of employee Christian Giese (1786–1846). The tree nursery and commercial gardening business only became successful over the course of many years. In 1822 the area was enlarged to 25 hectares. In 1823 the construction of 5 greenhouses had started. The sale of bushes to Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau for the landscaped park near Branitz , which he designed by him, took place shortly before the death of John Richmond Booth.
The eldest brother James Godfrey resigned in early 1828 by mutual agreement with James Booth & Sons and founded the company JG Booth & Co . The basis of the business was the trade in seeds and flower bulbs, which James Booth & Sons had previously operated. The younger brother George left the company as a partner around 1831. From then on, John Richmond Booth managed the company alone and made the nursery internationally known. The botanists visited the nursery as part of the “German Natural Scientists and Doctors” meeting in Hamburg in September 1830.
By concluding cultivation contracts with numerous surrounding nurseries, Booth laid the foundation for the large number of tree nurseries, especially in Rellingen and Halstenbek .
After the death of John Richmonds in 1847, his widow Maria Elisabeth Booth and her father Joachim Lorentz de la Camp (1781–1864) took over the management of the tree nursery and commercial nursery James Booth & Sons instead of their not yet grown sons. They left in 1863. John Cornelius joined the tree nursery in 1859 and took over the management of it in 1863 with his brother Joachim Lorenz de la Camp Booth (1832–1887). Lorenz Booth left the company at the end of 1868.
Rose dispute
John Richmond Booth also successfully grew roses and orchids. In 1833/34 Booth got into a dispute with the director of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann . The dispute, known as the “Rose Dispute”, is documented in newspaper articles and printed matter. Lehmann had initially accused Booth of the fact that the plant sold by Booth as the "Rose of Denmark" was not a new breed, which Booth sharply rejected. Lehmann later withdrew his allegations, pointing out that he was wrong. John Richmond's brother George Booth published a book on this.
Garden and flower growing association for Hamburg, Altona and their surroundings
Together with his brother James Godfrey, he has been involved in the gardening and flower-growing association for Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area, which he co-founded, since 1836 . On the one hand wealthy Altona and Hamburg citizens and on the other hand “trade and art gardeners” met here. He wrote about plant breeding for the organ of the association, including in 1838 about rhododendrons. Booth's "Flottbeker Nursery" played an important part in the fact that the plant was increasingly planted in parks.
Douglas fir and other alien tree species
In an article in 1839 John R. Booth wrote a short book presentation "The Pinetum Woburnense". This book was written for one of the Dukes of Bedford and described the planting of various "foreign" conifers and their development. The first mention of the Pinus Lambertiana (commonly known as "Douglas fir") is found here. Booth planted a Douglas fir in Klein Flottbek in 1831 , which was felled in 1882. The two-year-old sapling was the first Douglas fir planted in Germany. The seeds came from an English expedition that David Douglas had undertaken on the Pacific coast in Canada around 1827 .
On the occasion of the annual "Assembly of German Farmers and Foresters", Booth presented more than 100 natural wood logs in pots in Bad Doberan in 1841.
The literature, u. a. the "Lexicon of Hamburg writers", John Richmond Booth sometimes incorrectly uses the first name Godfrey instead of Richmond. Not all texts and writings that are assigned to him come from his pen.
Honors
John Booth has received several awards in Europe for his breeding success. In 1841 Booth was awarded by the Danish king of the Dannebrogden , in 1846 he was named " Knight of the Wasa Order " by the Swedish king . He received a visit from the Danish Queen and negotiated personally with Karl Robert von Nesselrode about the delivery of plants for gardens in Saint Petersburg . In 1833 the brothers John Richmond and James Godfrey were made honorary members of the Horticultural Society for the Kingdom of Hanover.
family
John Richmond Booth married Maria Elisabeth de la Camp (1806–1868) in 1831. His wife came from an important Hamburg merchant family. The couple had seven children. John Richmond Booth died in 1847 before the age of 50. The son Arthur developed into a respected businessman.
One of his sons was John Cornelius Booth (1836-1908).
The graves of John Richmond and Maria Elisabeth Booth can be found next to the grave of their father James Booth in Nienstedten cemetery since 1996 .
Essays
- All published in: Archive of the Garden and Flower Growing Association for Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area ,
- Notes on some persistent wood species , Hamburg 1837, p. 19 ff.
- Notes on some excellent English apple varieties , Hamburg 1837, p. 48f.
- Notes on some persistent wood species , Hamburg 1838, p. 17f.
- Notes about some new rhododendron hybrids , Hamburg 1838, p. 55f.
- The Pinetum Woburnense of the Duke of Bedford , Hamburg 1839, p. 53f.
- About Quercus tinctoria , Hamburg 1841, p. 29f.
- List of the softwood species exhibited by Mr John Booth from Hamburg and Flottbek at the meeting of German farmers and foresters in Doberan in September 1841 , minutes of meetings. In: G. [Georg] W. [Wilhelm] von Wedekind (ed.): New Year Books of Forestry , 23rd issue, Carl Dingeldey, Darmstadt 1841, p. 44 ff. Digitized
- Notes about some erotic forest trees , the meeting of German farmers and foresters on September 4, 1843 in Altenburg, in G. [Georg] W. [Wilhelm] von Wedekind (ed.): New Year Books of Forestry , Issue 27, Carl Dingeldey , Darmstadt 1843, p. 103 ff. Digital version , (here Booth presented foreign deciduous trees)
Catalogs (sales)
- James Booth & Sons , owner of the Flottbeck tree nurseries near Hamburg, 1845, PDF
- Directory of domestic and foreign fruit and forest trees, flower bushes etc. which are available for additional prices from James Booth & Sons, in the Flottbeck nursery near Altona, Nestler, Hamburg 1818, urn : nbn: de: gbv : 3: 3-34759
- Directory of domestic and foreign fruit and forest trees, flowers - shrubs, perennials - plants, house plants. Along with an addendum by oekonom. and wood seeds, which are available for set prices at James Booth & Sons in the Flottbeck nursery near Altona. Nestler, Hamburg 1824 ( digitized version )
literature
- Booth, John Godfrey , [actually John Richmond] in: Eduard Alberti (ed.): Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 (1867 to 1868), 1. Dept. A – L, Akademische Buchhdlg ., Kiel, 1867, digitized , p. 71 ff. (List of published texts).
- Annegreth Dietze: Influences from Germany on bourgeois garden art in southern Norway between 1750 and 1850 in: Sylvia Butenschön (Ed.): Garden History Research Colloqium 2008 , in: Gray series of the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning Technical University of Berlin , compilation of the conference contributions, Issue 17, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7983-2100-7 , p. 93 ff. (From p. 98 deliveries to Scandinavia by James Booth & Sons are explained in more detail.) PDF
- Maria Möring: Booth, John Richmond. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 453 ( digitized version ).
- Theodor I. Nietner : Travel report on the gardens and gardens of Hamburg . In: Friedrich Otto (ed.): Allgemeine Gartenzeitung , 2nd year, Berlin 1834, p. 275 ff. (P. 277 ff.)
- The Flottbeck nursery owned by James Booth & Sons near Flottbeck in Hamburg , in: New general German garden and flower newspaper , 5th year, Norbert Kittler, Hamburg 1849, pp. 93-94
- Second day . In: Lorenz Oken : Isis , Heft VIII – X, 1831, Sp. 851–853 (detailed presentation of business development to date.)
- Eduard Otto : News about some Hamburg gardens (from correspondence in October 1838). In: Friedrich Otto (ed.): Allgemeine Gartenzeitung , 6th vol., No. 44, Berlin 1838, pp. 347–348
- Eduard Otto: Selection of beautiful blooming orchids and some other plants in the greenhouses of Mr. James Booth & Sons near Flottbeck, in: New general German garden and flower newspaper , 5th year, Norbert Kittler, Hamburg 1849, pp. 384-385
- Hans Walden: Booth, John Richmond . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 53-54 .
Remarks
- ↑ "Richmond" is a middle name and the maiden name of his mother Mary Elisabeth. He also named his son Joachim Lorenz with the middle name "de la Camp" after the maiden name of his wife Maria Elisabeth.
- ↑ John Richmond had a sandstone stele erected on his grave after his death.
- ↑ "During his management the extraordinarily bad years came in the first half of the 19th century.": Carl Ansorge: About the introduction of foreign trees and the involvement of the Booth family . In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 29, 1920, p. 272.
- ↑ Second day . In: Lorenz Oken: Isis
- ↑ James Booth & Sons was represented in Hamburg (approx. From 1803) by Heinrich Vernunft (dealer for English goods). His office was at Mühlenbrücke 41. Later (before 1822) the widow took over the business. From 1828, the address of the headquarters was JG Booth & Co .
- ↑ Official report on the assembly of German natural scientists and doctors , Perthes & Besser, Hamburg 1831, p. 35.
- ↑ Die Gartenwelt , Volume VII, Issue 16, Carl Schmidt & Co, Leipzig 1903, p. 188.
- ↑ No. 6, first announcement , In: Allerhöchst Priviligierte Schleswig-Holsteinische advertisements for the year 1869 , official part, Augustin, Glückstadt, 3rd item January 18, 1869, pp. 28-29, digitized
- ^ Declaration in Regensburger Zeitung , No. 104 of May 2, 1834, (no page number), (settlement of the "Rosenstreits",) digitized
- ↑ Nees v. Esenbeck : The rose dispute. In: Flora or [general] botanical newspaper , 17th vol., 2nd vol., No. 25 of July 7, 1834, pp. 385-396 and No. 26 of July 14, 1834, pp. 401-410
- ↑ George Booth: Victory of the Rose "Queen of Denmark" by revealing the attacks of Professor JGC Lehmann. Paris 1834, digitized
- ^ Carl Ansorge: About the introduction of foreign trees and the involvement of the Booth family in it . In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 29, 1920, p. 274
- ↑ German forestry schools and a large number of foresters categorically rejected the planting of tree species that were not indigenous like the Douglas fir. Booth's efforts therefore received very little professional recognition and / or mention in the specialist literature. (This is what his son John Cornelius later tried to do.) The pioneer of Douglas fir in Germany is therefore state forest master Karl Phillipp (1865–1937), who got to know the Douglas fir during a private stay in the USA in 1891/92. Additionally: Historical consideration of the introduction of Douglas fir and other foreign tree species in Europe . In: Landbauforschung, special issue 344, on Douglas fir cultivation in Germany , Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 2011, p. 5 ff., ISBN 978-3-86576-070-8 PDF
- ↑ List of the softwood species exhibited by Mr John Booth from Hamburg and Flottbeck at the meeting of German farmers and foresters in Doberan in September 1841 . In: Alexander von Lengerke (ed.): Official report on the meeting of German farmers and foresters in Doberan in September 1841 . Opitz et al. Co, Güstrow 1842, p. 234ff.
- ↑ II. Hvarjehanda , in: Botaniska Notiser för år 1846 , Lund 1846, (No. 5–6, May – June), p. 96, digitized
- ^ Negotiations of the Horticultural Association for the Kingdom of Hanover , 3rd vol., (Self-published), Hanover 1834, p. 41. (The first names are not given here correctly.)
- ↑ Date of the wedding May 21st, 1831 ( Staats und schehre Zeitung des Hamburgischen unpartheyischen Correspondenten , anno 1831), on Wednesday May 25th, no page number, digitized
- ↑ Different information on the life data of Elisabeth de la Camp “9. September 1806 - August 2, 1842 ”in the German Gender Book , Vol. 171, Hamburg 12, Starke Verlag, Limburg, 1975, p. 137
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Booth, John Richmond |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German plant breeder and owner of a tree nursery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klein Flottbek |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1847 |
| Place of death | Klein Flottbek |