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16 unusual facts about horticulture


Austrocylindropuntia floccosa

Huaraco are cultivated for the use of planting them close together to make living fences.

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

Agricultural education is a broad term which includes disciplines of Agriculture (Agronomy), Veterinary Science, Forestry, Fisheries, Horticulture, Home Science etc.

BTEC Extended Diploma

Land-based subjects available include: Countryside management, Animal Management, Horticulture and Blacksmithing with Metalworking.

Eglwysbach

The village plays host to an annual Agricultural show and horticultural show in August, which includes displays of local cattle, sheep, heavy and light horses, showjumping a horticulture marquee, fairground rides and trades stands.

Larryleachia cactiformis

Larryleachia cactiformis proves as difficult a member of the Apocynaceae family in cultivation as others in its genus.

Laurelhurst Park

Emanuel Mische, Portland's park superintendent from 1908 to 1914, designed the park in 1912 with experience he acquired as a longtime horticultural "expert" for the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm.

Lilium rubescens

This plant is threatened by a number of factors, including development, logging, non-native species, road maintenance, and horticultural collecting of the bulbs and flowers.

Martua Sitorus

Wilmar's business activities include oil palm cultivation, oilseeds crushing, edible oils refining, sugar milling and refining, specialty fats, oleochemicals, biodiesel and fertilizers manufacturing and grains processing.

McDonald family

The neighborhood’s popularity was enhanced by a range of amenities including gas and water service, a new streetcar line established by Colonel McDonald, and an extensive tree planting program implemented with the assistance of famed local horticulturist Luther Burbank.

Monsang Naga

The above said land rules are followed only in the time of Jhum cultivation but when there is no cultivation is taken place then whole land is treated as common land.

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001

The Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Right Act, 2001 (PPVFR Act) is federal legislation enacted by the Parliament of India to provide for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders, and to encourage the development and cultivation of new varieties of plants.

Rene Haller

René Daniel Haller (born December 18, 1933), is a Swiss naturalist, trained in Horticulture, Landscaping and Tropical Agronomy.

Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University

The total number of students, graduated from the Gujarat Agricultural University (until 1996) were 8532 in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Dairy Science, Agricultural Engineering, Horticulture and Forestry, Home Science and Fisheries.

Siegel High School

One wing of the high school is devoted to vocational education with a special focus on agricultural and horticultural training plus facilities for culinary arts and child care training.

Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet

Sir William Matthew Trevor Lawrence, 3rd Baronet JP FSA (17 September 1870 – 4 January 1934) was an English horticulturalist, hospital administrator and collector.

University of Craiova

Respectively, it encompassed the faculties of Mathematics, Chemistry, Philology, Economics, Electrotechnics, Agriculture, and Horticulture which were unified under the same administration.


2009 ASB Classic

The event underwent a change in sponsorship, with Zealandia, a New Zealand horticulture firm, becoming a supporting partner.

Abelia x grandiflora

Abelia × grandiflora was first raised in 1886 at the Rovelli nursery at Pallanza (now Verbania), on Lake Maggiore in Italy.

Aesculus parviflora

Aesculus parviflora was introduced to British horticulture through the activities of John Fraser, who made his first botanizing trip through the American South in 1785.

Asarina

Graf, Alfred Byrd (1986) Tropica: color cyclopedia of exotic plants and trees for warm-region horticulture—in cool climate the summer garden or sheltered indoors; 3rd ed.

Bounteous Karnataka

The theme of this Summit was to promote agricultural activities and attract investment in agriculture and allied sectors like Animal Husbandry, Apiculture, Dairy, Sericulture, Fisheries, Floriculture, Horticulture and Food Processing in the state of Karnataka.

Caythorpe, Lincolnshire

In 1980 it became part of Lincolnshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture, and in 1994 was taken over by De Montfort University.

Certified Arborist

Several colleges like Portland Community College of Oregon, offer Certificates in Landscape Technology, through courses which include arboriculture, tree identification and other horticulture classes.

Dosmatic U.S.A.

Dosmatic manufactures injectors and pumps for the following market applications: Animal Health, Bio-Decontamination, Diesel Fuel Additives, Firefighting & Prevention, Food Processing, Golf Course Management, Horticulture, Pest Control, Printing, Vehicle Wash, Waste-water treatment and other specialty applications.

Dudley W. Adams

Dudley Whitney Adams (November 30, 1831, Winchendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts – February 13, 1897, Tangerine, Florida) was a horticulturalist who led the granger movement.

Édouard-Christophe Pynaert

He studied at a local gardening school, and from 1861 was a professor at the Ecole d'horticulture in Gentbrugge.

Emmen, Netherlands

There are extensive glasshouse complexes for horticulture, especially in the Klazienaveen-Erica area.

Genesee

The Genesee Farmer was an agriculture and horticulture periodical established in 1831

Granville, County Tyrone

The industrial estate includes the headquarters and main factory of Dunbia (formerly, known as Dungannon Meats) and one of the main plants of Linden Foods, also Westland Horticulture has its compost site and head office on the estate.

Guerrilla Gardeners

Five of the guerrilla gardeners are experienced in landscape and horticulture, while sixth member and host Dave Lawson was hired primarily for his ability to "spin lies to the councils when they turned up".

Harry Wheatcroft

The politician James Maxton guided him into horticulture, saying 'You'll bring beauty into the world. Politics is a very dirty business' .

Hastings, New Zealand

The Hastings' relationship with the Chinese city Guilin started in 1977, after a research scientist, Dr. Stuart Falconer identified a number of common areas of interest between the two cities, including horticulture and their rural-urban mix.

Herbertia

Herbertia (journal): An international journal published by the International Bulb Society devoted to the botany and horticulture of geophytic plants with a special emphasis on the Amaryllidaceae and other petaloid monocot families rich in bulbous or cormous plants.

HM Prison Channings Wood

The prison provides educational courses to prisoners, include Barbering, Business Studies, Catering, Industrial Cleaning, Creative Media Studies, Customer Services, Driving Theory, Dry-Lining, Electrical Installation, ESOL, Food Hygiene, Fork Lift Driving, Horticulture, Information Technology, Painting and Decorating, Physical Education and Yoga.

Horticulture Research International

Warwick HRI was formed on 1 April 2004 following the integration of Horticulture Research International’s (HRI) sites at Wellesbourne and Kirton with the University of Warwick.

International Grape Genome Program

In the course of their research, the Cooperative Research Centre for Viticulture (CRCV), based at the CSIRO Plant Industry Horticulture Unit in Adelaide, Australia (one of the IGGP collaborating centres) discovered that white grapes only exist today as a result of a rare genetic mutation which took place thousands of years ago.

James Boughtwood Comber

James ('Jim') Boughtwood Comber (1929 - 7 September 2005) was born at Garlieston, Scotland, into a famous horticultural family.

John Pilkington Hudson

His honours included an associateship of honour of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture in 1948, presidency of the former Horticultural Educational Association, founder membership and honorary fellowship of the UK Institute of Horticulture, a 1975 CBE for services to horticulture, and in 1976 the Victoria Medal of Honour from the Royal Horticultural Society.

Kirkley Hall

Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building situated on the bank of the River Blyth at Kirkley, near Ponteland in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, which is now an Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.

Laboratory Row

Originally designed as a laboratory for horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1888, it housed the horticulture department until 1924, when the new horticulture building, now known as Old Horticulture, opened.

Lecanicillium longisporum

In horticulture and agriculture Lecanicillium Isolates were first developed by scientists at the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute (now Warwick HRI: formerly part of Horticulture Research International).

Lecanicillium muscarium

In horticulture and agriculture Lecanicillium isolates were first developed by scientists at the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute (now Warwick HRI: formerly part of Horticulture Research International).

Louis Boehmer

In January 1871, when Kuroda Kiyotaka was in the United States hiring foreign advisors for his Hokkaidō Colonization Office, Boehmer was recommended as a horticulturist by a mutual friend of Horace Capron.

Maraschino cherry

Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of horticulture at Oregon State University, developed the modern method of manufacturing maraschino cherries using a brine solution rather than alcohol.

Neuranethes spodopterodes

It seems that the moth had been translocated accidentally in horticultural stock and that the natural enemies had not been imported at the same time.

Niels Ebbesen Hansen

Hansen was a member of the International Jury of Horticulture at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904 and a United States delegate to the First International Congress of Genetics in London, England in 1906.

Peter Seabrook

After working for two years on seed trial grounds, Seabrook studied horticulture at Writtle College in Essex, earning a diploma in 1956.

Reaseheath College

The college offers courses in Adventure Sports, Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Management, Business and Events Management, Construction, Countryside, Equine, Floristry, Food, Horticulture, Motor Vehicle, Public Services and Sports Studies.

Rhododendron lochiae

Rhododendron lochiae was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1887 who gave it the specific epithet lochae in honour of Lady Loch, a patron of horticulture in Australia and wife of the Governor of Victoria .

Rift Valley Province

Tea from the highlands in the Kericho district enjoy a world wide reputation, but horticulture is an important part of the district's economy and cattle raising is also practised to a large extent.

Roscoea alpina

For a long time R. scillifolia was incorrectly known in horticulture as R. alpina; Cowley (2007) cites articles written in 1938, the 1960s and 1970, all of which use this name for what is actually R. scillifolia.

Saritaea

Graf, Alfred Byrd (1986) Tropica: color cyclopedia of exotic plants and trees for warm-region horticulture—in cool climate the summer garden or sheltered indoors; 3rd ed.

Stefan Buczacki

Buczacki is a Fellow of the Society of Biology, a Chartered Biologist, a founder Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, and Honorary Professor of Plant Pathology at Liverpool John Moores University.

Walter Clore

While majoring in horticulture, Walter Clore also lettered in football as a lineman and was president of the agricultural fraternity Alpha Gamma Rho and elected to honorary membership to another agricultural fraternity Alpha Zeta.

Waterperry

The house has extensive grounds, and until 1971 housed the Waterperry School of Horticulture under Beatrix Havergal.

Wye Oak

Dr. Frank Gouin, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, College Park, impressed both by the age and size of the tree, as well as its unusual resistance to oak wilt fungus and the gypsy moth, led a successful effort to clone the Wye Oak.