Vegetable repertoire in the catalogs of plants at the beginning of the 20th century: the catalogs of the Estabelecimento Floricultura (1905 a 1919)

• Grant number: 18/06797-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: July 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Landscaping
• Principal Investigator: Marta Enokibara
• Grantee: Mariana Turati de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Estabelecimento Floricultura, founded in 1893 by the German Johann Dierberger (1859-1931), was one of the pioneer firms in the city of São Paulo for the production and trade of plants, and the design and execution of gardens. These activities, including the list of plants produced and marketed by the firm, were disseminated through its catalogs, constituting a rich material for understanding the vegetable repertoire produced and distributed. In this context, the aim of this research is to analyze the structure of the catalogs, their organization and content. The focus is on the study and comparison of the vegetable repertoire referring to the catalogs of 1905 (the oldest catalog found in the family archives and still under the name of Estabelecimento Floricultura), until the catalog of 1919, year of the return of the children João Dierberger Jr. and Reynaldo Dierberger, of the studies in Germany. The specific objective is to give continuity to the "Cataloging Essays", adopted as a methodological strategy in previous research, originally inserted in the FAPESP Thematic Project titled "Erudite and technical knowledge in the configuration and reconfiguration of the urban space. State of São Paulo, 19th and 20th centuries" (Process number 05 / 55338-0). Among these essays, the species distributed by the São Paulo government from 1909 to 1912 was cataloged through the " Serviço de Distribuição de Mudas e Sementes " (SDMS), making it possible to establish a comparative universe between these species and those marketed by the Estabelecimento Floricultura at the beginning of the 20th century.