The environmental horticulture or “green” industry encompasses a wide range of businesses, including wholesale nursery and greenhouse producers, lawn and garden supply and equipment manufacturing, landscape design, installation and maintenance
New Zealand horticultural exports expanded rapidly during 1970-1990. These increases did not occur without some difficulties. Details of the export expansion including main products and major markets (such as the U. S. and Pacific Rim Countries) will be discussed. Key factors such as: 1) marketing strategies of the past, present, and future; 2) the impact of new marketing technology; and 3) importance of New Zealand image will be detailed. The role of education and technology and the skill level of New Zealand horticulture will be reviewed. This will include the New Zealand tertiary education system as well as relevant examples of how universities can assist.
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The clone is one of the basic categories of cultivar (4) with extremely important applications in horticulture. “Cloning” can be defined as the vegetative regeneration of a single genotype as represented by a single plant, single growing point, single meristem, or single explant. More recently this term has been expanded to cover regeneration of a fragment of a chromosome or gene. Cloning is a powerful procedure both as a plant selection tool for breeding and as a plant propagation tool for reproduction. This paper focuses attention on the opportunities and problems in propagation as it relates to horticulture.
Science is a challenging subject to teach at the middle school level. The state of Louisiana requires public school teachers to plan their curriculum around Grade-Level Expectations or state mandated educational benchmarks. A program titled Horticulture in a Can has been designed to teach horticulture lessons to middle school students while targeting the state regulated grade-level expectations. All lessons use a hands-on approach as it has been proven more effective than traditional classroom teaching. Horticulture in a Can was developed by a cooperative effort between the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program and the LSU AgCenter's Department of Horticulture within the Coastal Roots Nursery Program. Eight lesson plans have been created to meet twenty-six Grade-Level Expectations for 463 students in 4 schools. Pre- and PostHorticulture tests were given to each class in addition to pre- and postChildren's Attitude Towards the Environment Scale (CATES). All tests were given to both treatment and control classes within each school. The evaluations tested both short and long-term memory on material contained in the lesson plans. The data was analyzed by school, treatment, sex, and grade-level.
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In 1980, ASHS completed a survey of internship programs offered at institutions with 2- and 4-year horticulture programs and landscape architecture programs. The results indicated that 50% of 62 responding institutions had internship programs; however, the number of students taking advantage of existing programs was relatively small (1).
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‘Viva’, a new sweet cherry from Vineland, the cover photograph, is the most recent of a long line of sweet cherry cultivar developed here. This year's A.S.H.S. meetings will be held in Ontario along with the Canadian Soceity's meeting. A review of this Province's research program in horticulture is threfore timely.
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Why aren't there more women horticulturists in the United States? The large number of European women in this field always astonishes Americans traveling abroad. In certain Asian countries, e.g. Taiwan and Thailand, women are represented in horticulture classes in much larger numbers. (This may partly account for the extraordinarily high proportion of Oriental women graduate students in the U.S.) Recently, in our country there has been a noticeable increase in high school girls enrolled in agriculture and participating in FFA. There is also a substantial increase in number of college women majoring in horticulture. A poll of 43 Land Grant Institutions showed that women constitute 22% of undergraduate majors and 14% of our graduate students. A comparison of the present meager representation of women in academic positions (2%), employed by USDA (1.5%), and members of ASHS (1.7%) with the proportion of young women training for careers in horticulture demands a reevaluation of long-held assumptions that horticulture is a masculine occupation. Why such a high rate of attrition between undergraduate training and professional employment?
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The ASHS Tropical Region was founded in 1951 by a group of enthusiastic horticulturists working in the Caribbean and Latin America. This group was greatly inspired by Wilson Popenoe, a visionary in tropical horticulture who was dedicated to actions supporting agricultural development and the conservation of resources in Central America.
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These are days of questioning, of legitimizing, of considering alternatives, of adjustment. The signs of inquiry and concern about priorities are everywhere as our colleagues talk about a Rip Van Winkle Society and as environmentalists parade as experts on everything from horticultural crops to sociology.
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The Gambian climate is well-suited for the production of horticultural crops. There are two distinct seasons: a short wet season, from June until September, when temperatures and humidity are quite high; and a long dry seas the rest of the year. From November until March, the dry season is cool and especially suitable for the production of a wide variety of vegetables.