Julius Bouché

Julius Bouché , actually Carl Friedrich Julius Bouché or Karl Friedrich Julius Bouché (born August 8, 1846 in Schöneberg , † June 28, 1922 in Bonn ), was a German gardener, garden designer and greenhouse technician. He was the garden inspector of the Royal Botanical Garden Bonn-Poppelsdorf . Julius Bouché is a scion of the famous Bouché gardening dynasty .

life and work

education

Julius Bouché first learned the gardening trade from his father Carl David Bouché . In 1869 he passed the senior gardener exam and was senior gardener in Humboldthain under Gustav Meyer from 1870 .

Bonn Botanical Garden

From 1871 to 1888 he was Wilhelm Sinning's successor as the garden inspector of the Royal Botanical Garden in Bonn-Poppelsdorf.

Together with Johannes von Hanstein (1822–1880) he expanded the garden area in the southeast from the castle pond over the moat, which was used as Ha-Ha in the Baroque period, towards Venusberg (today's coniferous department).

Under his direction, the greenhouses built under Sinning were expanded and expanded. He - and not by Michael Neumann, as sometimes read - likely originated the design for the (but actually already outdated) in the ornate style of historicism held Palm House (1873 or 1875 in modern iron and glass structure built, ridge height of 19 meters ), the round Victoria Regia House (built in 1878), presumably also two propagation houses and two warm houses for orchids (built 1878–1880). Julius Bouché had acquired a good knowledge of greenhouse technology from his father, who had designed the palm house in the Berlin-Schöneberg Botanical Garden and who wrote one of the two basic manuals of the 19th century on greenhouse construction, and published the text posthumously in 1886 .

Garden design and commercial gardening

Julius Bouché was also the designer of the Old Cemetery in Bonn, as well as the extension of the Lantz'schen Park in Düsseldorf-Lohausen created by Joseph Clemens Weyhe to include a forest park (1880, including the Lohauser bush).

From 1887 to 1907 Julius Bouché ran a commercial gardening business in Bonn.

Fonts

• Julius Bouché: The vegetable cultivation: A practical guide to the education and culture of all vegetables and kitchen plants , (Agricultural Library; 8), Berlin, 1874
• Julius Bouché: Carl David Bouché (1809–1881) , in: Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung, vol. 6, 1882, pp. 77–79, 91f., 102–104.
• Julius Bouché: The insect-eating plants: a contribution to the history and culture of the same , Bonn: Strauss, 1884.
• Julius Bouché (ed.), Carl David Bouché (author): Building and setting up greenhouses: a manual for gardeners and builders , 2 volumes (text, atlas), Bonn: Emil Strauss, 1st edition 1886, 2nd edition [ under the title: Das Gewächshaus ] 1895.

literature

• Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The Berlin gardener family Bouché 1740-1933 , in: Erika Schmidt (Ed.): Garden - Art - History. Festschrift for Dieter Hennebo on his 70th birthday , Worms am Rhein: Werner, 1994, ISBN 3-88462-107-6 .

Web links

• Illustrations from the manual on building and furnishing greenhouses ( memento of October 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )