Franz Goeschke; (1844-1912) was a German horticulturist who was a lecturer and director at the school of horticulture in Proskau

Prószków

Prószków / is a town in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 2,660 inhabitants .Prószków/Proskau has been bilingual in Polish and German since 2006.-Twin towns — Sister cities:Prószków is twinned with:* Pruszków, * Hünfeld,...

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His father, Gottlieb Göschke (1818-1898) was also a noted horticulturalist.

Franz Göschke was a leading authority of strawberry

Strawberry

Fragaria is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits. Although it is commonly thought that strawberries get their name from straw being used as a mulch in cultivating the plants, the etymology of the word is uncertain. There...

 cultivation. He is credited with creating around thirty new varieties of strawberry, including the once popular Erdbeere Königin Luise (Queen Luise Strawberry), which he first introduced in 1905.

Selected publications

• Die rationelle Spargelzucht (Rational Asparagus
  Asparagus
  Asparagus officinalis is a spring vegetable, a flowering perennialplant species in the genus Asparagus. It was once classified in the lily family, like its Allium cousins, onions and garlic, but the Liliaceae have been split and the onion-like plants are now in the family Amaryllidaceae and...
  
   Cultivation), 1882
• Die Haselnuss, ihre Arten und ihre Kultur (Hazelnut
  Hazelnut
  A hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and is also known as a cob nut or filbert nut according to species. A cob is roughly spherical to oval, about 15–25 mm long and 10–15 mm in diameter, with an outer fibrous husk surrounding a smooth shell. A filbert is more elongated, being about twice...
  
  s, Types and Cultivars), 1885
• Das Buch der Erdbeeren (The Book of Strawberries)
• Der Hausgarten auf dem Lande (The Garden in the Countryside), 1899
• Einfassungspflanzen (Edging Plants), 1900
• Einträgliche Spargelzucht (Lucrative Asparagus Cultivation), 1904