1. Divisions of Horticulture 2.01
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2. Purpose for which it is grown
Plants are classified into the three sciences based upon the purpose for which the plants are grown!
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3. Biology
What is it?

4. Biology
Zoology
Botany

5. Botany
Three major plant sciences
Forestry
Horticulture
Agronomy

6. Agronomy Row crops Crops that need to be processed
Soy, wheat, rice, tobacco, cotton

7. Forestry Growing trees for tree products
Paper, cut timber, you name it!

8. Horticulture Garden Cultivation
Plants grown for beauty or for fresh food (sometimes they are processed, but can be eaten raw)
Flowers, vegetables, turfgrass, fruits, nuts

9. Horticulture Six studies of plants Olericulture Pomology Viticulture
Floriculture
Turfgrass
Nursery

10. Olericulture
Vegetables and herbs

11. Pomology
Fruit and nut crops

12. Difference between a vegetable and fruit
Botanically- according to botany, anything with a seed is a fruit structure
Horticulturally- fruit is determined by what part of the meal it is from- desserts are fruit, salads are vegetables, etc.

13. Nursery
Trees, shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses

14. Floriculture
Flowers that are grown for cut flower arrangements or grown for flower beds

15. Viticulture Grapes that are grown for juices and wine
Vitus vinifera- Latin for meaning vine of life
A glass of juice or wine a day keeps you healthy!

16. Turfgrass The cultivation of grass- not weeds! Home lawns
Athletic fields
Facilities

17. GO MSU
Go see Coraline, her dad went to Michigan State University for horticulture… Yeah!
Botanist: studies plant growth
Horticulturist: cultivates plants (like Coraline’s Dad and me!)

18. Which Applied Plant Science?
Remember, the PURPOSE for which the plant is grown determines which of the following plant sciences the plant is:
Forestry
Agronomy
Horticulture
Example- maple trees: grown for the wood is forestry, grown for landscape is horticulture

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20. How much maple syrup does a maple tree make anyway?
Depending on the sweetness of the sap, it can take anywhere from gallons of raw sap to make a gallon of finished syrup. The usual amount is about 40 gallons of sap to one gallon of syrup. Each tap into a tree will yield about 10 gallons of slightly sweet sap over a period of the 4-5 week sugaring season. This 10 gallons of sap, when boiled down, will yield approximately one quart of finished maple syrup. 2.

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29. Which Horticultural Science?
Which of the six horticultural sciences is each of these pictures?
Landscape/Nursery
Olericulture- herbs and vegetables
Pomology- fruits and tree nuts
Floriculture
Turfgrass
Viticulture- grapes for juice and wine

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32. Durham Bulls Park
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35. Squirting Cucumber 16.

36. Amorphophallus Lily- means, looks like a … 17.

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39. Pistachio Tree 20.

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