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Author : U. P. Hedrick
Publisher : New York Oxford University Press 1950.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Horticulture in America to 1860 written by U. P. Hedrick and published by New York Oxford University Press 1950.. This book was released on 1950 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Cameron
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780641389
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Environmental Horticulture written by Ross Cameron and published by CABI. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental horticulture - also referred to as landscape horticulture and amenity horticulture - is the umbrella term for the horticulture that we encounter in our daily lives. This includes parks, botanic gardens, sports facilities, landscape gardens, roundabouts, cemeteries, shopping centres - any public space which has grass, planting and trees. This book reflects contemporary thinking and is supported by scientific evidence to show the role, value and application of horticulture in the landscape. The discipline of environmental horticulture, its importance and impact on the wider environment is explored in the first part, whilst the second part covers practical horticultural management of different categories of environmental horticulture.
Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375760393
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Author : Cecilia Stanghellini
Publisher : Brill Wageningen Academic
ISBN 13 : 9789086863297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Greenhouse Horticulture written by Cecilia Stanghellini and published by Brill Wageningen Academic. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
Author : Chris Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782546
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Fundamentals of Horticulture written by Chris Bird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for all studying horticulture and keen gardeners. This clear introduction to the principles underlying the practical applications of horticulture opens up the excitement of growing plants and garden development without readers wading through complex information. Written by a team of highly motivated and experienced horticultural tutors, the text supports the newly restructured RHS Level 2 qualifications with related Level 3 topics in boxes and signposting to Level 4 topics, together with other horticultural qualifications at these levels. Full colour images tied closely to the text and practical case study boxes inspire readers by making topics relevant to their own horticultural experiences. A comprehensive glossary helps build confidence in the use of classical horticulture language as well as new developing terms, and end-of-chapter questions encourage readers to apply what they have learnt. Extensive online supporting material includes mind maps showing the relationship of topics and aiding students in revision.
Author : Jeffrey Winterborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955011207
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Hydroponics written by Jeffrey Winterborne and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of successful indoor growing.Hydroponics Indoor Horticulture is the most modern, advanced, and accessible information available to date on indoor gardening.This book reveals the esoteric secrets that are practised and used by the most experienced, seasoned and succesful hydroponic cultivators.In straightforward, easy-to-understand, plain English, this book explains step by step and chapter by chapter, every currently known method and technique for producing super-sized yields and outrageous harvests.
Author : Carroll L. Shry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473744288
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Introductory Horticulture written by Carroll L. Shry and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Paul Robinson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567926149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Heroes of Horticulture written by Barbara Paul Robinson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the vibrant stories of eighteen heroes of horticulture "€" institution builders, plant explorers and garden creators "€" who have all had a major impact on the American landscape. Three of them worked together to establish The Garden Conservancy to preserve exceptional gardens for the public. Others came to the rescue to restore and enhance public parks and public spaces, setting new standards for aesthetics and encouraging wider public use. While some have taken on the revitalization of botanic gardens, important to science and public education as well as public enjoyment, others have worked to create new outstanding public gardens. Then there are the adventurous tales of the intrepid plant explorers who travel to remote parts of the globe hunting for new plants unknown in the west. Many have also worked to hybridize and improve the plants already in use and most have opened nurseries to help insure these great plants are available to the public. Finally, two have created their own exceptional gardens that, thanks to existence of The Garden Conservancy, are becoming new public institutions.
Author : D. R. Bienz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0716723530
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The why and how of Home Horticulture written by D. R. Bienz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a beginning or experienced gardening enthusiast, a student of gardening, or a horticultural professional, 'The Why and How of Home Horticulture: Second edition' will prepare you to face virtually any gardening situation. Like no other gardening book, it supports its practical, how-to-do-it guidelines with clear explanations of the relevant scientific principles of horticulture. You will know what steps to take--and why those steps are working.
Author : Tina Marie Waliczek
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482261006
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Urban Horticulture written by Tina Marie Waliczek and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of urbanization and technological advances, public green spaces within cities are disappearing and people are spending more time with electronic devices than with nature. Urban Horticulture explores the importance of horticulture to the lives, health, and well-being of urban populations. It includes contributions from experts in researc
Author : Christoph-Martin Geilfus
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030231976
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Controlled Environment Horticulture written by Christoph-Martin Geilfus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plant’s metabolism towards the production of compounds that are beneficial for human health when that plant is part of the diet or the source of phytopharmaceutical compounds. The first part of the book introduces the concept of Controlled Environment Horticulture as a horticultural production technique used to maximize yields via the optimization of access to growing factors. The second part describes the use of this production technique in order to induce stress responses in the plant via the modulation of these growing factors and, importantly, the way that this manipulation induces defence reactions in the plant resulting in the production of compounds beneficial for human health. The third part provides guidance for the implementation of this knowledge in horticultural production.
Author : Wolf D. Storl
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583945687
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Culture and Horticulture written by Wolf D. Storl and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various studies have shown time and again that small organic farms and home gardens are capable of producing more food per acre with less fossil energy than large-scale commercial agricultural installations dependent on machines and toxic chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This classic book by Wolf D. Storl, a respected elder in the practice of permaculture, details how food is grown holistically and beautifully by traditional communities around the world, and shows how to apply their ancient wisdom to our own gardens. With interest in natural, sustainable, organic and local food at an all-time high, people are looking beyond their farmers markets and CSA cooperatives to hyperlocal ways of growing healthy, delicious produce in urban gardens and their own backyards. Culture and Horticulture details time-tested methods that are as effective today as they were hundreds of years ago. On the practical front, the book works as a manual for creating and maintaining a bountiful harvest. It explains how to build the soil to maintain fertility; how to produce compost; how to plant, sow, and tend the various fruit and vegetable plants; how to rotate crops and practice companion planting; how to set up a favorable microclimate; how to deal with so-called weeds and pests; how to harvest at the right time; and finally how to store vegetables and herbs. Special emphasis is given to the art and science of composting, the compost being the "heart" of any self-sufficient garden and a model for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. At the same time the reader is introduced to the wider aspects of horticulture, to its historical, philosophical, and cosmological contexts and social relevance. Gardening is a cultural activity, shaped by peoples' thoughts, wishes, and needs as well as by their cultural traditions. The author, an anthropologist by profession who has investigated the gardening practices of indigenous people throughout the world and worked for many years on biodynamic farms and in his own food garden, will introduce the reader to Rudolf Steiner's vision of the garden as an organic unit, embedded in the context of terrestrial and cosmic forces. Storl explains the importance of cosmic rhythms (solar, lunar, and planetary), the role of biodynamic herbal preparations as "medicines" for the garden organism, and the so-called "etheric" and "astral" forces. The book presents a vision of the garden as seen through the eyes of "Goethean science," a magical place where alchemical transformations of material substances take place.
Author : Suzanne Ashworth
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0988474905
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Seed to Seed written by Suzanne Ashworth and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete seed-saving guide of 160 vegetables, including detailed info on each vegetable.
Author : Athanasios Koukounaras
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036503501
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Advanced Greenhouse Horticulture written by Athanasios Koukounaras and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenhouse horticulture is one of the most intensive agricultural systems, focusing on the production of high-value products. This book presents current research findings that cover a wide range of new technologies and novel agricultural practices, which are preconditions for successful production in a very competitive global environment.
Author : Kevin Stafford
Publisher : Massey University
ISBN 13 : 9780995123045
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Agriculture and Horticulture in New Zealand written by Kevin Stafford and published by Massey University. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO NEW ZEALAND'S DYNAMIC AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY Written by experts from Massey University's School of Agriculture and Environment, this is an accessible and straightforward overview of the business of growing plants for human and animal consumption, as well as forestry and flower production. It has a focus on New Zealand practices, and information on social issues, environmental costs, food safety, chemical use, post-harvest management and availability. Chapters cover pasture and forages, field crops and vegetables, kiwifruit, grapes, pip fruit and summer fruit. There are also useful chapters on soils and precision agriculture, and how new technologies are improving productivity and sustainability. The book is aimed at high school students studying agriculture, and year one tertiary students undertaking degrees or diplomas in this subject. Those studying agribusiness, resource management, nutrition, food technology and ecology will also find it helpful. SALES POINTS * Overview of the growing agricultural and horticultural industries in New Zealand written by experts * Specific content on local practices not available in other publications, as well as information on social issues, environmental costs, food safety, chemical use, post-harvest management and availability * Valuable guide for agricultural science students at all levels, lifestyle block owners, farmers and media * In the same series as the highly regarded.
Author : National Gardening Association (U.S.)
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140178821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Horticulture written by National Gardening Association (U.S.) and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's most trusted gardening authorities comes the first dictionary to explain every gardening term in language even the layperson can easily understand. More than 18,000 alphabetically-arranged entries and 5,000 cross-references comprise an extensive listing of plants, fruits, herbs, and vegetables, botanical terms, insects, and more.
Author : Anthony Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558216938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (169 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Gardening written by Anthony Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As aptly categorized in the foreword: "This is gardening at ground level, history with (you might say) dirty fingernails." The late son of the Huxley dynasty of scientists chronicles the derived-from-agriculture gardening techniques and implements invented and used across cultures and the centuries (everything but power mowers it seems). Huxley also considers more recent trends: greater numbers of leisure gardeners optimizing smaller lots, growing from seed, and organic gardening. Includes numerous bandw illustrations. Originally published by Paddington Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
