Nursery/Landscape CDE General Knowledge Daily 12 Quiz 39/40

The best time to water a lawn is:

• IN THE MORNING

• IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY

• IN THE EVENING

• AT NIGHT

A shrub should be planted at a depth of: YOU KNOW THIS! WE HAVE DISCUSSED THIS MULTIPLE TIMES.

• the same in which it was growing before

• 1-2 inches deeper than it was in its container

• 3-4 inches deeper than it was before to allow for mulch

• slightly shallower than it was before

Most newly planted trees:

• should be staked for the first three years

• need to be staked for one year

• need to be staked for 6 weeks

• do better without staking

The male parts of a flower are the: USE YOUR CONTEXT CLUE TO ANSWER.

• PISTIL

• STAMEN

• SEPALS

• OVULE

Only one form of deciduous tree purchased is to be planted when the tree is dormant, which one is it?

• BARE ROOT

• CONTAINERIZED

• BALLED AND BURLAPPED

• NONE OF THE ABOVE

The smallest soil particle is:

• SAND

• SILT

• CLAY

• LOAM

B&B in the nursery/landscape trade means:

• Burlapped in a bag

• Balled and burlapped

• Bagged in burlap

• Bare-rooted and bagged

Training plants into three-dimensional ornamental forms, such as animals, is called:

• TOPIARY

• HEADING BACK

• BONSAI

• ESPALIER

A propagator in a nursery business is responsible for:

• Increasing new accounts by spreading propaganda

• Carrying out an extensive plant breeding program and applying for plant patents

• Making sure the area used for pulling orders of container grown landscape-size plants is well stocked

• Starting new plants from seeds, cuttings, grafting, or other means and planning the propagation schedule

The order of the elements in a 5-10-5 fertilizer analysis is:

• N-K-P

• N-P-K

• K-P-N

• P-N-K