HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
FUNDAMENTALS OF HORTICULTURE
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Floriculture
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Forestry
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Landscape
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Design
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Floriculture is an important branch of horticulture, which deals with cut or loose flowers, ornamental plants, such as foliage plants, trees, shrubs, climbers, palms, bamboo, cacti and succulents, dried flowers, essential oils and landscape gardening.
Detailed explanation-3: -Total area under floriculture in India is second largest in the world and only next to China. Production of flowers was estimated to be 2910 thousand MT of which loose flowers accounted to 2263 thousand MT and cut flowers to 647 thousand MT. Fresh and Dried cut flowers dominate floriculture exports from India.
Detailed explanation-4: -floriculture, branch of ornamental horticulture concerned with growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants as well as with flower arrangement.