Cutting propagation; a guide to propagating and producing floriculture crops.9781883052485 Cutting propagation; a guide to propagating and producing floriculture floriculture Branch of ornamental horticulture concerned with growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants, as well as with flower arrangement. Because flowers and potted plants are largely produced in plant-growing structures in temperate climates, floriculture is crops. Ed. by John M. Dole and James L. Gibson. Ball Publishing 2006 385 pages $64.95 Hardcover SB123 This textbook by Dole (horticultural science, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. State U.) and Gibson (West Florida Research and Education Center, U. of Florida-Milton Campus) provides guidance on floricultural flo·ri·cul·ture n. The cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants. [Latin fl  s, fl crop
propagation by cutting, in which a piece of the source plant containing
at least one stem cell stem cellIn living organisms, an undifferentiated cell that can produce other cells that eventually make up specialized tissues and organs. There are two major types of stem cells, embryonic and adult. is used to produce new root or stems. It opens with introductory chapters containing general propagation information, basic plant physiology, and introduction to the floricultural businesses that use propagation. They then present four chapters that discuss cutting propagation information specific to specialty bedding plants, herbaceous her·ba·ceous adj. 1. Relating to or characteristic of an herb as distinguished from a woody plant. 2. Green and leaflike in appearance or texture. perennials, specialty cut flowers, and foliage plants. Finally, individual coverage is given to sixty-one of the major crop species commercially grown by the floricultural industry, with information provided on flowering control and dormancy, stock plant management, cutting harvest, propagation, plant growth regulators, production and schedule, and diseases and disorders. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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