2025年1月17日 · Horticulture, the branch of plant agriculture dealing with garden crops, generally fruits, vegetables, and ornamental plants. As a general term, it covers all forms of garden management, but in ordinary use it refers to intensive commercial production.

Britannica Dictionary definition of HORTICULTURE [ noncount ] : the science of growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers — compare agriculture

horticulture, Branch of agriculture concerned with the cultivation of garden plants—generally fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamentals such as plants used for landscaping (see landscape gardening). Propagation, the controlled perpetuation of plants, is …

Primitive culture - Horticulture, Societies, Subsistence: Primitive agriculture is called horticulture by anthropologists rather than farming because it is carried on like simple gardening, supplementary to hunting and gathering.

2024年12月8日 · Horticultural education and research in the United States were given great impetus by Justin S. Morrill, a supporter of the Morrill Act (1862), which provided educational institutions in agricultural and mechanical arts for each state.

2025年1月17日 · Horticulture - Gardening, Landscaping, Plant Care: Ornamental horticulture consists of floriculture and landscape horticulture. Each is concerned with growing and marketing plants and with the associated activities of flower arrangement and landscape design.

2025年1月17日 · Horticulture - Breeding, Cultivation, Plant Genetics: The isolation and production of superior types known as cultivars are the very keystones of horticulture. Plant breeding, the systematic improvement of plants through the application of genetic principles, has placed improvement of horticultural plants on a scientific basis.

2025年1月17日 · Horticulture - Propagation, Plant Breeding, Cultivation: Propagation, the controlled perpetuation of plants, is the most basic of horticultural practices. Its two objectives are to achieve an increase in numbers and to preserve the essential characteristics of the plant.

2025年1月17日 · Horticulture - Plant Propagation, Cultivation, & Breeding: Many plants produce specialized vegetative structures that can be used in propagation. These may be storage organs such as tubers that enable the plant to survive adverse conditions or organs adapted for natural propagation—runners or rhizomes—so that the plant may rapidly spread.

Primitive agriculture is called horticulture by anthropologists rather than farming because it is carried on like simple gardening, supplementary to hunting and gathering. It differs from farming also in its relatively more primitive technology.