Vocabulary
The planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of vegetable crops
What is Olericulture?
A structure whose walls and roof are covered with a transparent material, such as glass, and in which climatic conditions can be controlled for plant growth
What is a Greenhouse?
The science of soil management and crop production
What is Agronomy?
The state that led with 51% of total U.S. citrus production
What is California?
Aplace that specializes in starting plants and growing them until they are ready to be transplanted to landscapes
What is a Nursery?
The establishment and care of a grass surface in a residential, business, sports-facility, or park setting
What is Turfgrass Management?
Because of the use of green plants, the ornamental horticulture industry is often called this
What is Green Industry?
The study of insects
What is Entomology?
The largest citrus crops
What are Oranges and Grapefruits?
The cultivation of flowers, which includes the production, distribution, and processing of flowering and foliage plants
What is Floriculture?
The improvement of the appearance of land through the shaping of the topography, the planting of trees and other plants, and the installation of hardscape materials
What is Landscaping?
Two main categories of ornamental horticulture
What is floriculture and landscape horticulture?
The area of science that is most closely associated with horticulture
What is botany?
The two categories that the USDA separates fruit crops
What are non-citrus fruits and nuts and citrus fruits?
A retail outlet that sells plants grown in nurseries, along with garden supplies
What is a Garden Center?
The growth and use of plants for their beauty.
What is ornamental horticulture?
A plant grown and used for its colorful greenery or leaves.
What is a foliage plant?
The study of the relationships that living organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment
What is Ecology?
Three largest non-citrus fruit crops
What is Grapes, Apples, and Strawberries
A collection of a wide range of plant species for exhibition and scientific study
What is a Botanical Garden?
A botanical collection composed exclusively of trees used in part for scientific study
What is a Arboretum?
Name for nonwoody plants
What is herbaceous?
The revolution that took place in the 60s and 70s
What is the Green Revolution?
The four nuts grown in the greatest abundance
What are Almonds, Pecans, Walnuts, and Pistachios?
Types of plants associated with floriculture (give 2)
What are bedding and garden plants, foliage plants, potted flowering plants, cut flowers, and cut cultivated greens.