Transcript What is Horticulture?? - Providencehorticulture

WHAT IS
HORTICULTURE??
WHAT IS IT TO YOU!
Take a couple minutes with the neighbor at
your table and write a list of items you use
everyday which are byproducts of the
Horticulture Industry. Keep thinking of items
until I say STOP!!
HORTICULTURE IS…
–noun
1. the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or
nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits,
vegetables, or ornamental plants.
2. the science and art of cultivating such
plants.
FLORICULTURE
 the
science and practice of
growing, harvesting, storing,
designing and marketing flowering
plants.
OLERICULTURE
–noun
the cultivation of vegetables for the
home or market.
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POMOLOGY
 the
science and practice of growing,
harvesting, storing, processing and
marketing tree grown fruits.
LANDSCAPING/NURSERY
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The industry that deals with the science and
practice of propagation (reproducing),
growing, planting, maintaining, and using
grasses, annuals, shrubs and trees
Nursery: a place where young trees or other
plants are raised for transplanting, for sale,
or for experimental study.
Landscape: the layout of the young plants
grown in a nursery
operation
OTHER AREAS OF
AGRICULTURE
BIOLOGY
The
science that deals with both
plants and animal organisms
and life processes.
ZOOLOGY
The
science or
branch of
biology
dealing
with
animals.
BOTANY
The
science of plants; the
branch of biology that deals
with plant life.
AGRONOMY
The
science of
soil management
and the
production of
field crops.
FORESTRY
 the
science and practice of growing,
managing and harvesting trees for
building materials and other products.
 the process of establishing and managing
forests; forestation.
ANNUAL
Plants
that only live for one
growing season (ex. Beans,
corn)
BIENNIALS
Plants
that live for two growing
seasons. Typically do not flower
until second season.
PERENNIALS
Having
a life cycle last two or
more years.
EVERGREEN
Plants
that remain green
year round
DECIDUOUS
Plants
which lose their
functional leaves during
dormant season.
PROJECT!
 Divisions
Brochure: You are to create a
brochure which is pleasing to the eye. It
must contain 6 panels, 5 of which are of
the horticulture divisions, and 1 is about
you.
 Each panel must have at least 1 picture.
Under each picture there should be a label
of that division and some way to define
the word the pics are describing.
 Creativity counts! (5 pts per def., 5 pts. per label, 5 pt.
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Per pic, 15 pts personal information and 10 pts creative.)
TOTAL PTS: 100 pts