PPT-Introduction to Horticulture

Plants Parts A W orld Without Plants Find a Partner On your note card Identify why plants are so important to the world Provide Examples Parts of a Plant Leaves Stems Roots Flowers Fruits or Seeds. Dana and B Rosie Lerner Living Christmas trees roots and soil are purchased for indoor enjoyment during the holidays and for outdoor enjoyment as landscape trees when the holidays are over Purchasing a living tree and successfully establishing it i Dana and B Rosie Lerner Testing garden soil for nutrient status is an easy and relatively inexpensive planning tool Yet it is an alltoocommon practice for gardeners to apply fertilizer lime sulfur or other materials to their soils without knowing it arizonaedupubs gardenaz1106pdf This information has been reviewed by university faculty PUBLICATION AZ1106 599 At a Glance Know the characteristics of the plant when healthy to identify symptoms of distress Identify where symptoms are appearing new Department of Horticulture Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service . Plants. Grade Levels 3-4. Project Developed by. : . Dr. Terry Ferriss, Professor of Horticulture, . University of Wisconsin -River Falls. Dotty Woodson. Extension Program Specialist. Water Resources. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Dallas Research and Extension Center. Resources. Earth-Kind Program. Horticulture/Water/Irrigation Specialists and Horticulture County Extension Agents. Discuss floriculture and landscape plants. Taxonomy. The science of classifying and identifying plants. Scientific names are used because the same common name is used for different plants in different areas of the world.. Horticulture. Word first used in 1600. ’. s. Comes from two Latin words. Hortus. . “. Garden. ”. Cultura. . “. Cultivation. ”. Horticulture means . “. cultivated garden. ”. or . “. . Extending links for collaborative research and innovation in Horticulture. Mary . Bosley. Chair of the HIP. Why is Horticulture innovation important to the UK economy ?. Sector makes a . vital contribution . Objectives:. A. Define . Horticulture and its related fields; . B. Identify . the various roles of plants in everyday life;. C. Identify . agriculturally important plants, and explain their uses;. D. Describe . Learning . Objectives: Subsistence Unit. 1. Identify the subsistence patterns found in human societies. 2. Identify the cultural characteristics of a society that might be inferred from knowing the society’s subsistence patterns. Unit 1. Introduction to Horticultural Science. Framework 1.1. 1. CDE – career development event. 2. Entrepreneur – one who works for oneself . 3. Floriculture – the science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, designing, marketing, and distributing foliage and/or flowering plants. LUGA Line COB Horticulture Horticulture. comes from the Latin words . hortus. which means “garden” and . colere. . which means . “to cultivate” – cultivation or culture of a garden. With time, the term horticulture has acquired a broader meaning, for instance, when we talk about horticulture we are referring to the production and use of plants for food, beauty and other benefits for society.