Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self-Representation Through Botany and Horticulture in Germany, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Lauterbach, Iris

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“…Hesperides, by Giovanni Battista Ferrari ( 1646), influenced citrus cultivation in Portugal, providing the notion that orange trees belonged not only in groves because of their fruit productivity but also in gardens due to their ornamental character, standing beauty, color and fragrance (Rodrigues 2016). The two-volume standard work on the culture of citrus fruits by Johann Christoph Volkamer (Nürnbergische Hesperides (Volkamer 1708); Continuation (Volkamer 1714)) had a great impact on the elites of the Western world (Lauterbach 2016), although there is no evidence of its specific influence in the Azores archipelago. Contrarily to the "orangeries" represented in this work-protected environments amenable to the growth of oranges, lemons and other citrus trees built in climatically harsh places like Northern Europe-the Hesperides proved to be well-adapted to the climate of the islands, and their presence there was old.…”

Section: Setting the Scene: The Azorean Garden Of The Hesperidesmentioning

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An Early Bioinvasion in the Azores. Global Circulation and Local Dynamics (1840s–1860s) in Response to the Brown Soft-Scale Coccus hesperidum

Queiroz

2020

Humanities

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Bioinvasions occurred in the past as they do in the present, raising a set of ecological, economic, cultural and scientific changes. This paper focuses on how people dealt with and overcame the introduction and spread of the brown soft scale (Coccus hesperidum) in the Azorean orange groves in the 1840s–1860s. It describes the difficulties in the detection and the identification of the causal agent, the underestimation of the impacts in the early moments, the slow response and the limitations on methods of control. This is the earliest historical case of a plant pest documented in the Azores archipelago and the first that led to regulations concerning preventive measures and control. Research results are discussed in the framework of the global transfer of living organisms, rethinking Crosby’s original model of “Europeanizing” the colonial and overseas territories in the context of the nineteenth century empires. They highlight the relevance of understanding local dynamics, which reconsider the relationship between the center and the periphery.

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Section: Setting the Scene: The Azorean Garden Of The Hesperidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Early Bioinvasion in the Azores. Global Circulation and Local Dynamics (1840s–1860s) in Response to the Brown Soft-Scale Coccus hesperidum

Queiroz

2020

Humanities

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Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self-Representation Through Botany and Horticulture in Germany, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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An Early Bioinvasion in the Azores. Global Circulation and Local Dynamics (1840s–1860s) in Response to the Brown Soft-Scale Coccus hesperidum

An Early Bioinvasion in the Azores. Global Circulation and Local Dynamics (1840s–1860s) in Response to the Brown Soft-Scale Coccus hesperidum

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