Travel Report: An Apprenticeship in the Earl of Derby’s Kitchen Gardens and Greenhouses at Knowsley, England...

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Hans Jancke Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

Travel Report

An Apprenticeship in the Earl of Derby’s Kitchen Gardens and Greenhouses at Knowsley, England...

Hans Jancke, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Mic Hale , John Beardsley

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English

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
09 September 2013

Horticulture; Gardens (descriptions, history etc); Classic travel writing

Series: Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies

For centuries, travel was an important part of a gardener's initial and continuing professional training. Educational journeys to parks and gardens at home and abroad were consistently recorded in lengthy reports and articles for professional journals. The travel report by Hans Jancke (1850-1920), a court gardener who served the Prussian kings in Potsdam, Germany, is typical of this genre. Jancke's manuscript, which until now remained unpublished, describes his 1874-1875 apprenticeship at Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby near Liverpool, England. Containing extensive plant lists and detailed descriptions of the horticultural regimens observed in the estate's kitchen gardens and greenhouses, the text is augmented by several measured drawings executed by Jancke. These illustrations include the hothouses used for fruit forcing, vegetable production, and exotic ornamentals, as well as a site plan based on Jancke's own survey data. Professionally focused travel journals of gardeners and garden artists were for a long time ignored as sources to be taken seriously in historical research. But Jancke's eyewitness account, especially as it documents an intense scientific curiosity, demonstrates the potential of these texts for illuminating the more technical and practical aspects of the history of the garden arts.

By: Hans Jancke
Foreword by: John Beardsley
Edited by: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Translated by: Mic Hale
Imprint: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 422g
ISBN: 9780884023890
ISBN 10: 0884023893
Series: Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 09 September 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn is Professor at Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. Mic Hale is affiliated with Lessing Community College in Hannover, Germany. John Beardsley is Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.