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Horticulture

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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.

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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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Pomology, Disciplines

The research-driven branch of horticulture devoted to fruit

A branch of the science of horticulture

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1. Horticulture (Wikipedia)
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Royal Horticultural Society (Wikipedia)
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Quote, Introduction section
The UK's leading gardening charity, established as the Horticultural Society of London on 7 March 1804.
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