SMHS Horticulture Vocabulary 1

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  1. 2. The edible part of an herbaceous plant.
  2. 4. Any leafy plant material, usually clover, fine-stemmed grasses and sedges, alfalfa, and other legumes,
  3. 6. Cultivation of woody plants, particularly those used for decoration and shade.
  4. 7. of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and ornamental shrubs and trees.
  5. 10. To cut, reap, pick, or gather any crop or product of value, as grain, fruit, or vegetables.
  6. 11. Any group or association of plants; the sum of vegetable life; plants in general.
  7. 12. The specialization of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field–crop production and soil management. The scientific management of land.
  8. 14. Broadly defined as solid, liquid, or gas fuel derived from recently dead biological material.
  9. 16. The embryo of a plant; also kernels of corn, wheat, etc., which botanically are seed like fruits as they include the ovary wall.
  10. 17. – The cultivation of plants for their flowers.
  11. 19. – Botanically, the matured ovary of a flower and its contents including any external part that is an integral portion of it.
  12. 20. The cultivation of plants for their flowers.
  13. 21. Any place where plants, shrubs, and trees are grown either for transplanting or as grafting stocks
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  1. 1. The forming, sorting, apportioning, grouping, or dividing of objects into classes to form an ordered arrangement of items having a defined range of characteristics.
  2. 3. Botanically, the matured ovary of a flower and its contents including any external part that is an integral portion of it.
  3. 4. The science of agriculture that relates to the cultivation of gardens or orchards, including the
  4. 5. To beautify terrain as with plantings of trees, shrubs, and flowering herbs; with ornamental
  5. 8. – (1)The seed of the cereal crops. (2) Commercially, or as listed on boards of trade, buckwheat, soybeans, and flaxseed, in addition to the cereals.
  6. 9. A family of plants, including many valuable food and forage species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, alfalfas, sweet clovers, lespedezas, vetches, and kudzu. With the aid of symbiotic bacteria, they can convert nitrogen from the air to build up nitrogen in the soil.
  7. 13. has been cut and dried principally for livestock feeding.
  8. 15. The sciences, arts, and business practices of crating, conserving, and managing natural resources on lands designated as forests.
  9. 18. An element or compound in a soil that is essential for the growth of a plant.
  10. 19. such as terraces, rock gardens, bog gardens, pools, walks, and drives.