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Horticulture

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Applied Horticulture and Horticultural Business Services

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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Horticulture 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
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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.
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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.
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Joseph Decaisne (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Joseph Decaisne, Biography, chair of horticulture
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as the chair of horticulture at the Museum
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Auguste Rivière (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Auguste Rivière, Lead, field of work
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was a French horticulturalist and pomologist
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Joseph Stayman (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Joseph Stayman, Lead, occupation
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was an American horticulturist
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Emilia Hazelip (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Emilia Hazelip, Lead, occupation
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was a Catalan organic gardener
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Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois, Lead, chair of horticulture
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From 1920 to 1932 he was chair of horticulture
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Ferdinand Jühlke (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Ferdinand Jühlke, Lead, occupation
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was a Prussian (after 1871 German) horticulturist
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Georg Friedrich Schnittspahn (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Georg Friedrich Schnittspahn, Biography, training
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He was trained as a gardener in Darmstadt
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Andrew Jackson Downing (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Andrew Jackson Downing, Career and work
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With his brother Charles, he wrote Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1845), long a standard work.
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Pierre Poivre (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Pierre Poivre, Lead, spice introductions
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He was involved in introducing the cultivation of numerous spices from Southeast Asia into Mauritius
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Elza Polak (Wikipedia)
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Elza Polak (25 May 1910-1 January 1995) was a Yugoslav horticulturist and gardener
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Amos William Howard (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Amos William Howard, Career and work
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Howard later established a nursery at Mount Barker in the Adelaide Hills
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Felix Gillet (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Felix Gillet, Career and work
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was a California pioneer nurseryman, horticulturist, sericulturist, and writer
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Thomas Wallace (horticulturalist) (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Thomas Wallace, Career and work
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was a British professor of horticultural chemistry
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Pieter Vorster (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Pieter Vorster, Lead, field of work
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A horticultural Institute for ornamental plant species, not picked fruit, flowers (cut) and vegetables were established in 1949 and Vorster was the first director
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Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, Biography, field of work
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He also contributed to the improvement of the cultivation of fruit trees, particularly their pruning
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John Tradescant the Younger (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: John Tradescant the Younger, Biography, field of work
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he undertook collecting expeditions to Virginia between 1628 and 1637
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William Lawson (priest) (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: William Lawson, Lead, horticulture
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known as a writer on gardening
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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.
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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.
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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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Brahma Singh - Wikipedia
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Brahma Singh is an Indian horticultural scientist, known for his expertise on protected cultivation and his efforts in developing agro-technologies for the high altitude areas
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Wikipedia: Iqrar Ahmad Khan
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Iqrar Ahmad Khan (born 8 December 1950) is a Pakistani agricultural scientist and a professor of Horticulture at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in Pakistan.
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Wikipedia: Albert F. Yeager
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Albert Franklin Yeager (1892, November 4, 1961) was an American horticulturalist.
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Wikipedia: Peter Hardwick
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Peter Hardwick (born 1958) is an Australian food horticulturist and environmentalist, recognized as an early pioneer of the Australian bushfood industry.
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Anthony Preston Smith - Wikipedia
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Anthony Preston Smith (1812-1877), known as A.P. Smith, was a prominent horticulturalist best known for establishing Smith's Pomological Gardens and Nursery (commonly Smith's Gardens) in Sacramento, California.
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Léopold Guillaume Gillekens (Wikipedia)
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Léopold Guillaume Gillekens (11 October 1833, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, 2 October 1905, Vilvoorde) was a Belgian horticulturalist.
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Franz Goeschke (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Franz Goeschke, Lead
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Franz Goeschke (German spelling, Göschke); (1844-1912) was a German horticulturist who was director of horticulture and head of the Royal Prussian Pomological Institute in Proskau.
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Fabián García (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: Fabian Garcia, Lead
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Fabián García (January 20, 1871, August 6, 1948) was a Mexican-American horticulturist who has been described as "the father of the New Mexican food industry".
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Palemon Howard Dorsett (Wikipedia)
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Palemon Howard Dorsett (1862-1943) was an American horticulturalist employed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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William Dar (Wikipedia)
Has Figure: William Dar, Lead
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William Dollente Dar (born April 10, 1953) is a Filipino horticulturist and civil servant who served as the Secretary of Agriculture under the Duterte administration.
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Sheet mulching - Wikipedia
Includes: Sheet Mulching, Lead
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In permaculture, sheet mulching is an agricultural no-dig gardening technique that attempts to mimic the natural soil-building process in forests.
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