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.
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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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