'22 Nursery/Landscape #26-50

. Large growing trees, taller than sixty feet, should be planted at least ___ feet from the foundation of a home.

• 8

• 10

• 12

• 20

Which of these actions is most likely to stimulate the growth of lateral buds on a shrub or tree?

• Removal of the stamens

• Removal of the anthers

• Removal of the terminal buds

• Spraying the plant with an organic pesticide

When removing large branches from trees the ___ method should be used. This prevents damage caused by the weight of the branch ripping down and stripping bark off the tree trunk.

• Straight-cut

• Two-cut

• Three-cut

• Four-cut

The air space on a spark plug between the electrodes is set with a tool called a(n):

• Plug knife

• Electrode prod

• Gap gauge

• Terminal gauge

Which of these practices will encourage lawn grasses to become more deeply rooted?

• Deep watering only as needed.

• Light watering each morning.

• Heavy watering each morning.

• Watering each morning and afternoon.

The best example listed of a variable cost for a nursery grower is:

• Liability insurance

• Land payments

• Cost of potting soil

• Truck payment

A customer wants a flowering annual for their landscape in Indianapolis that can withstand the heat of full sun conditions during the summer. They will host a wedding at their home in mid-summer and they want a blooming annual that will provide excellent color at that time. Which of these choices would be the best plant to suggest to this customer?

• clematis

• snapdragons

• marigolds

• pansies

One of the responsibilities of this Federal agency is to protect U.S. agriculture and natural resources against invasive pests and diseases

• American Community and Workplace Administration

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration

• Cooperative Extension Service

• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

A nursery business owner realized that her equipment is not worth as much this year as it was last year, or any year since she purchased the equipment. The measure of how much a piece of equipment drops in value each year is called:

• maintenance appreciation loss

• consumable routing.

• depreciation

• asset routing

Anyone who plans to dig, including landscapers and homeowners, should call ____ or go to their state call-before-you-dig website to request that the approximate location of buried utilities be marked with paint or flags so that they don’t unintentionally dig into an underground utility line.

• 911

• 811

• 711

• 611