Intro to Horticulture

What is Horticulture?

• Science that deals with fruits and vegetables

• Science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants

• Science involving the cultivation of fruits and vegetables

• Cultivating and maintaining grass for sports play, lawns and roadways

What is Olericulture?

• Science dealing with fruits and fruit growing

• Growing and marketing plants for flower arrangements

• Cultivation of vegetables and herbs for the home or market

• Installation of grass for sports play

Pomology is the science that deals with fruits and fruit growing.

• True

• False

Ornamental horticulture deals with what?

• Growing plants for holiday decorations

• Cultivation of vegetables and herbs for the home or market

• Growing and marketing plants associated with flower arrangements and landscape design

• Science of growing ornamental plants

The production of field-grown or greenhouse-grown plants for their flowers or showy leaves is what?

• Ornamental horticulture

• Olericulture

• Floriculture

• Planticulture

Involves cultivating and maintaining grass for sports play, lawns, and roadways

• Turf grass

• Landscape horticulture

• Ornamental horticulture

• Pomology

What is landscape horticulture?

• The design, installation, and maintenance of both outdoor and indoor environments

• The science of growing grass for sports play, lawns, and roadways

• Cultivation of vegetables and herbs for the home or market

• Fruit trees that are grown for display in a yard.

What are the three areas of the horticulture industry?

• Olericulture, Ornamental Horticulture, and Turf Grass

• Pomology, Floriculture, and Olericulture

• Turf Grass, Landscape Horticulture, Floriculture

• Ornamental Horticulture, Olericulture, and Floriculture

Taxonomy is the way in which organisms are classified and uses scientific names.

• True

• False

Plant names are written in Greek.

• True

• False