Principles of Horticulture

✍ Scribed by C.R. Adams, K.M. Bamford and M.P. Early (Auth.)

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Edition: 2 Sub
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive and professional textbook on the principles underlying the successful growing of plants for landscape plantings, playing surfaces, commercial production of flowers, fruit and vegetables, and the garden. The first part of the book deals with the nature of plant growth and the factors that influence plant development. The following chapters examine the pests and diseases that attack plants and the ways in which horticulturists control them. Finally, the last part of the book discusses the root environment - soil and other growing media, soil water, plant nutrition and the role of organic matter. In this second edition greater emphasis is laid on the diversity of plant use in horticulture. A new first chapter sets the scene and looks at the impact on the industry of the conservation movement and organic growing, which is reflected throughout the book. Topics given fuller treatment include water conservaton and alternatives to soil as a growing medium

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages vii-viii
Acknowledgements, Page ix
1 - Putting Horticulture in Context, Pages 1-6
2 - Plant Classification and Naming, Pages 7-10
3 - Plant Organization, Pages 11-16
4 - Water and Minerals in the Plant, Pages 17-22
5 - Plant Growth, Pages 23-29
6 - Plant Development, Pages 30-45
7 - Genetics and Plant Breeding, Pages 46-51
8 - Weeds, Pages 52-61
9 - Large Pests, Pages 62-65
10 - Small Pests, Soil Organisms and Bees, Pages 66-91
11 - Fungi, Bacteria and Viruses, Pages 92-107
12 - Control Measures, Pages 108-123
13 - Soil as a Growing Medium, Pages 124-141
14 - Soil Water, Pages 142-155
15 - Soil Organic Matter, Pages 156-167
16 - Plant Nutrition, Pages 168-182
17 - Alternatives to Growing in the Soil, Pages 183-193
Index, Pages 195-204