Comparison of Conditioning, Precooling, Transit Method, and Use of a Floral Preservative on Cut Flower Quality1,2

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Online Publication Date:
Jul 1979
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483–490
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Volume 104: Issue 4
DOI:
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Contributor Notes

Received for publication February 12, 1979.

The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper must therefore be hereby marked advertisement solely to indicate this fact.

Partial support for this project was provided by the Northern California Flower Shippers Association, the Northern California Carnation Growers Association and Society of American Florists Endowment. We wish to thank the following growers and shippers who provided flowers, facilities and personnel for these tests: Cut Flower Exchange; Glad-A-Way Gardens; Kitayama Brothers; A. Nagamine Nursery; Mt. Eden Mums; Mt. Eden Nursery; Sunbay Farms, and William Zappettini Company. We also acknowledge the help of T. M. Kretchun, University of California Field Station Superintendent.

Farm Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, Watsonville 95076.

Specialist, Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California Field Station, San Jose, CA 95128.

Research Horticulturist, USDA – Science and Education Administration, Federal Research, Bradenton, FL 33508.

Professor, Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08093.

Agricultural Marketing Specialist, USDA – Science and Education Administration, Fresno, CA 93725.

Extension Agricultural Engineer, University of California Cooperative Extension, Davis 95616.

Professor, Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California, Davis 95616.

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