Careers in Horticulture

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Across
  1. 7. The science and practice of propagating, growing, planting, maintaining, and using grasses, annuals, shrubs, and trees.
  2. 9. Educational requirement for unskilled, entry-level jobs.
  3. 10. The science and practice of growing, maintaining, and processing grapes.
  4. 11. Grows vegetables, fruits, and flowers including cut flowers, bedding plants, potted plants, hanging baskets, and landscaping plants. Employees do both sexual and asexual plant propagation
  5. 13. The science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing flowering plants.
  6. 14. You can work in a variety of wholesale and retail areas for operations like a seed grower or a wholesale plant grower.
  7. 15. Cares for the land area and plants surrounding a business, school, church, industry, or other public or private places with lawns and plants that must be maintained (includes IPM).
Down
  1. 1. Work in jobs that are environmentally friendly and have to do with reusing, recycling, and reducing the carbon footprint.
  2. 2. Cares for plants, moves plants and supplies, arranges and displays plants and supplies, and sells plants and supplies
  3. 3. Is responsible for maintaining golf courses including turf grass, pest management, irrigation and drainage, sand trap, trees and shrubs, buildings, and equipment.
  4. 4. The science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing tree-grown fruits.
  5. 5. There are many career opportunities in this field working for USDA, EPA, and the FDA, you can be a technician, a researcher, a marketing specialist, and much more!
  6. 6. Educational requirement for a skilled job.
  7. 8. The science and practice of growing, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing vegetables.
  8. 12. Maintains plants, grounds, buildings, facilities, equipment, and driveways in national, state, city, or privately owned parks.