The garden-scale sister of agronomy: fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants, grown intensively on small plots rather than broadcast across fields. Where agronomy thinks in hectares of one crop, horticulture thinks in rows, beds, orchards and greenhouses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionHorticulture is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants, generally on a garden or orchard scale rather than a field scale. 1 Horticulture
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1. Wikipedia: Horticulture
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Horticulture is the science and art of growing ornamental plants, flowers, as well as fruits, vegetables, and other economically valuable crops or trees on a controlled scale.
Royal Horticultural Society (Wikipedia)
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The UK's leading gardening charity, established as the Horticultural Society of London on 7 March 1804.
Niels Ebbesen Hansen (Wikipedia)
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Niels Ebbesen Hansen (January 4, 1866, October 5, 1950) was a Danish-American horticulturist, botanist, and agricultural explorer for the United States Department of Agriculture and the state of South Dakota.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (Wikipedia)
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Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858, December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and advocate for rural reform in the United States. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Robert F. Chandler (Wikipedia)
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Robert Flint Chandler Jr. (June 22, 1907 - March 23, 1999) was an American horticulturalist, and founding director of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Later, he was appointed as the first director-general of the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC), which became the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg).
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