Pomological monthly books

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Title page of the first edition of the Pomological monthly magazine.
Illustration of the Gravensteiner apple variety from the first year of the Pomological monthly booklet.

The Pomological Monthly Hefts were a monthly magazine for the members of the German Pomologists Association, which appeared between 1855 and 1905.

Name of the magazine

In order to ensure a better overview for the reader, the name of the magazine has been changed three times after every ten years of publication. The first ten years from 1855 to 1864 were called the monthly magazine for pomology and practical fruit growing . With the eleventh year it was renamed in 1865 to Illustrirte monthly books for fruit and viticulture and with the appearance of the 21st year in 1875 in Pomological monthly books. From 1879 the magazine was subtitled magazine for the promotion and uplifting of fruit science, fruit culture and fruit use and from 1890 the general German fruit growing newspaper . In professional circles and literature references, the magazine is often abbreviated as Illustrirte Monatshefte or as Pomologische Monatshefte , regardless of the year of publication .

In 1906 the magazine was published in Deutsche Obstbauzeitung. Association publication of the German Fruit Growing Society in Eisenach. renamed. It carried this name until 1921. In 1922, after the dissolution of the German Pomologists' Association in 1919, it became the German fruit and vegetable-growing newspaper with the German vegetable-building newspaper: weekly publication of the Reich Association of German Horticulture. summarized.

Editing and editing

The magazine was founded in 1855 by Eduard Lucas who, together with Johann Georg C. Oberdieck, was the first year publisher and editor of the magazine. Since the range of topics of the magazine was to be expanded to include viticulture, the Reutlingen pharmacist Phillip Fehleisen joined the editorial team as a specialist in viticulture and oenology . However, Fehleisen died only two years later in December 1866, after which Lucas and Oberdieck continued to manage the editorial team alone. After Oberdieck's death in 1880, Eduard Lucas continued to manage the editorial team alone. After his death in 1882, his son Friedrich Lucas took over the editing of the magazine.

The magazine was first published by the Franz Köhler publishing house in Stuttgart, from 1865 by the Dorn'sche publishing house in Ravensburg, and from 1869 by the Eugen Ulmer publishing house.

content

In addition to genetic variability and variety recommendations, the article treated by various authors, topics such as fruit and wine-growing , cultivation methods, pruning trees and vine training , plant diseases and plant protection , as well as fruit processing. In addition, reports on fruit-growing trips, the minutes of the meetings of the German Pomologists Association and biographies of deserving pomologists and fruit-growing scientists were published. Types of fruit that were considered to be particularly worthy of dissemination were described in detail and often depicted with color images.

Web links

Wikisource: Pomological monthly books  - sources and full texts
Commons : Pomological monthly notebooks  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Record in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. JGCOberdieck: Where are we? In: Illustrirte monthly books for fruit and viticulture - organ of the German Pomologists Association . Verlag der Dorn'schen Buchhandlung, Ravensburg 1865, p. 1.
  3. Fehleisen: Phillip Fehleisen. Biographical sketch with portrait. In: JGC Oberdieck, E. Lucas: Illustrirte monthly books for fruit and viticulture - organ of the German Pomologists Association. Verlag der Dorn'schen Buchhandlung, Ravensburg 1867, pp. 129-134.
  4. ^ F. Lucas: Foreword to the 29th year. In: F. Lucas: Pomological Monatshefte - journal to promote and uplift the fruit customer, Obstcultur and fruit use. Published by Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1883, p. 1f.