Bouche, Carl Paul [i.e., Jean David Bouché]. Der Zimmer- und Fenstergarten. Oder kurze und deutliche Anleitung die beliebtesten Blumen und Gewächse in Zimmern und Fenstern ziehen, pflegen und überwintern zu können. Nebst einer Anleitung zur Blumentreiberey und zu einer für alle Monathe geordneten Behandlung der in diesem Werke vorkommenden Gewächse.

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Early Viennese edition of this gardening manual first published in Berlin in 1808. The nurseryman Karl Paul Bouché (1747-1819) was born into a Huguenot family of gardeners resident in Berlin since 1685. In 1781 he took over his father's business. The greenhouses he built were among the largest of their time: he also used them as coffee houses that proved popular among high civil servants and indeed with the king himself. Bouché introduced the culture of flower bulbs to Berlin and cultivated a number of difficult plants; by introducing the hydrangea (hortensia) he opened up an important market to horticulture (cf. NDB II, 491).

Binding markedly rubbed; interior browned with occasional slight worming to gutter. An old ownership on the title-page has been obliterated.