Garden visitation has been a tourism motivator for many years and can now be enjoyed in many different forms. Private garden visiting, historical garden tourism, urban gardens, and a myriad of festivals, shows and events all allow the green-fingered enthusiast to appreciate the natural world. This book traces the history of garden visitation and examines tourist motivations to visit gardens. Useful for garden managers and tourism students as well as casual readers, it also examines management and marketing of gardens for tourism purposes, before concluding with a detailed look at the form and tourism-based role of gardens in the future.
Understanding the physiology of plants is fundamental to horticultural studies and practice. Aimed at undergraduates, this major textbook covers applied aspects of physiology related to horticultural crops. The author discusses specific physiological processes in relation to horticultural management, maintaining a focus throughout on how horticultural practices influence plant productivity and quality. Principles of Horticultural Physiology begins by guiding students through the basics of plant physiology; plant anatomy and plant classification, before covering plant hormones, growth and devel.
The book principles of plant physiology will be found particularly useful to University students reading for pass or honours degrees. For the benefit of the latter and of others who desire to read further on the subjects dealt with, references to monographs on the respective subjects are given at the ends of some of the chapters. In addition a bibliography is appended of works cited in the text. It is hoped this will be found useful to those students who wish to obtain detailed information from the original sources.
Excerpt from The Theory of Horticulture: Or an Attempt to Explain the Principal Operations of Gardening Upon Physiological Principles This book is written in the hope of providing the intelligent gardener, and the scientific amateur, correctly, with the rationalia of the more important operations of Horticulture; in the full persuasion that, if the physiolgical principles on which such operations, of necessity, depend, were correctly appreciated by the great mass of active-minded persons now engaged in gardening in this country, the grounds of their practice would be settled upon a more satisfactory foundation than can at present be said to exist. It is, I confess, surprising to me, that the real nature of the vital actions of plants, and of the external forces by which they are regulated, should be so frequently misapprehended even among writers upon Horticulture; and that ideas relating to such matters, so very incorrect as we frequently find them to be, should obtain among intelligent men, in the present state of what I may be permitted to call horticultural physiology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Plant classification; Plant structures; Plant physiology and biochemistry; Plant development; Plant environments; Plant propagation and interim care; Outdoor management of the plant environment; Management of controlled to semicontrolled plant environments; Physical, biological, and chemical control of plants; Plant protection; Horticultural crop improvement; Harvesting and postharvest preparation; Ornamental horticulture; Olericulture; Pomology.
Horticulture, with its diverse array of techniques and practices, encompasses a rich tapestry of methods aimed at nurturing plant life and optimizing agricultural productivity. At its core lies the art and science of plant propagation, where the magic of new life begins. Seed germination, a timeless practice as old as agriculture itself, embodies the promise of renewal and growth. From the humble beginnings of a tiny seed emerges the potential for a towering tree or a bountiful harvest of fruits and vegetables. Grafting, a technique honed through centuries of horticultural innovation, unlocks new possibilities by uniting the strengths of different plant varieties, creating hybrids with enhanced vigor, disease resistance, or unique characteristics. Tissue culture, a marvel of modern science, takes propagation to new heights, offering a precise and controlled environment for the multiplication of plants on a microscopic scale, free from the constraints of traditional methods.
This comprehensive introduction to horticulture as a science, art, and business covers all the essential principles and practices of the field. It discusses aspects pertaining to both indoor and outdoor production and provides sound scientific background of modern horticulture.
"Plant physiology includes the study of plant form and function. As plants developed to life on land they were obligatory to evolve methods to continue with the separation of CO2 and water. Plant physiology looks at the different parts of plants and how they work, either individually or collectively. In recent years our knowledge of the metabolic pool in plants, with its numerous eddies, cross currents and vortexes, has steadily become wider and deeper. The metabolic pathways in the oxidation of carbohydrates, as previously indicated, are quite well understood. The biochemistry of photosynthesis, although not, parenthetically, its energetics, is approaching a comparable status of knowledge. Similarly, knowledge of the metabolism of organic acids, fats, and nitrogenous compounds has progressed substantially in the last decade or two. The general advance in our understanding of the overall dynamics of plant metabolism has been one of the most outstanding achievements of plant physiology during the last two decades. Research in plant hormones is another field of investigational activity which has retained its prominence in recent years. Work on other kinds of plant hormones besides the auxins has; continued in recent years, and some entirely new ones have been discovered. Investigations have continued on the roles of thiamin, niacin, pyridoxine and other plant hormones of the B vitamin group. The truly grand challenges in plant physiology are those that will yield important insights about how plants live and function, and also provide at least partial solutions to critical societal needs. The book provides general principles and new insights of some plant physiology aspects covering abiotic stress, biochemistry and metabolism, transport and translocation, plant water relations, mineral nutrition and reproduction. This book may serve as source of methods, theories, ideas and tools for students, researchers and experts in the areas of plant physiology."
