Peter Carl Bouché (or Peter Karl Bouché; * 21 of July 1783 , Berlin - † 27 of February 1856 ., Ibid) was a horticulturist , botanist and writer German of palnificación gardens and botanical subjects.
Life and work
Peter Carl Bouché belonged to the Berlin gardener dynasty of the Bouché . He was the eldest son of Jean David Bouché (1747-1819), brother of Carl David Bouché (1782-?) And Peter Friedrich Bouché (1785-1856), and father of Carl David Bouché (June) (1809-1881) and Karl Emil Bouché (1822-1882).
He was a founding member of the "Society of Gardeners of the Royal Government of Prussia", in 1822.
Peter Carl Bouché acquires a property at Jakobstraße 3-4 (today 18-19), to form a nursery company, but later sells it, and partners with his brother Peter Friedrich Bouché to continue the business of the gardens of his father. Both brothers introduce in Berlin, many exotic species such as rubber tree ( Ficus elastica ), Japanese camellia ( Camellia japonica ) and Oleander ( Nerium oleander splendens ), novelties for cultivation in the region.
Besides this commercial activity, he will be a botanical teacher; and later a student of Carl L. Willdenow in Botany. And also with him he participated in botanical excursions to the Margraviate of Brandenburg , helping to discover new species. With other contemporary botanists, such as Kunth , Schlechtendal , Chamisso corresponded.
In addition to working with the onion, he was a student of the genus of the achira ( Canna ), coming to possess 120 species .
Honors
In honor of the brothers Peter Carl and Peter Friedrich Bouché, their colleague Chamisso designates the genus Bouchéa from the Verbenaceae family . Kunth in 1842 designates Mygalum bouchéanum (today Ornithogalum bouchéanum , Asch. 1866 ); Gladiolus bouchéanus Schltdl. 1832 (today G. palustris Gaud. )
- The abbreviation "Bouché" is used to indicate Peter Carl Bouché as an authority on the scientific description and classification of plants. [ 1 ]
Some publications
- Über die Kultur der Zwiebelgewächse (On the cultivation of onions) , 1837. The text bears the classificatory designations as „DCP Bouché“, and they were assigned post Wimmer, unambiguously by Peter Carl Bouché
- Carl Paul Bouché: The room and window garden (Jardines e Invernáculos , 1st ed. 1808; y el 2 de 1811. Supplemented by instructions on forcing flowers and on a monthly treatment of the plants occurring in this plant .; El 3 de 1817; el 5 de 1821; 6th edition again increased by an appendix: considerations about the city garden or instructions for the possible use of the spaces behind and between buildings in cities , Berlín: Nauck, 1833. Note: According to information in the book itself, this comes from in the first half of the 19th century widespread work (at that time the only one of its kind, a total of 8 editions, even a Swedish translation: “Fönster-Trädgården”) by “ PC Bouch锓, But due to identical life dates, Jean David Bouché is also suspected as the true author. Peter Carl Bouché is only the editor of the extended later editions (his name is noted from the 2nd edition).
- seven articles in the botanical journal Linnaea published by Schlechtendal , some in Latin.
- He also wrote treatises on Canna in 1833 and 1844, but died before he had published all of his knowledge.
IPNI standard form: Bouché
