Written in a consistent format to allow easy study and reference, this comprehensive guide to floriculture production covers more crop species than any other book on the market, and incorporates current and historic information from both the United States and international floriculture. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive title covering all species. Provides complete coverage of floriculture production, postharvest handling, and marketing as well as greenhouse and business management. Extensive, easy-to-use tables are included that list propagation techniques, production temperatures, and crop times, photoperiodic requirements for flowering, foliar nutrient levels, effective growth retardants, postharvest storage temperatures, and ethylene sensitivity of hundreds of species. Floriculture Principles and Species is a comprehensive book designed for both industry professionals and hobbyists. For the industry this book is used by producers to grow their crops, conduct their business operations, and market their products. It provides technical information for advisors, suppliers and sales staff to aid their clientele. Readers will be able to learn about the diversity and details of floriculture production.

Floriculture: Principles and Species (2nd Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dole, John M.

Wilkins Professor Emeritus, Harold F.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Pearson

Butterflies of Oklahoma, Kansas, and North Texas focuses on one hundred butterfly species common to the southern plains, a crucial crossroads region of the central United States. Each species is illustrated with one to four color photographs of butterflies in free flight and other natural settings. These candid shots are a welcome departure from the dried-and-pinned specimen photographs of some field guides. Photographs are placed alongside each butterfly’s physical description and natural history, eliminating the need to flip between galleries and text. Other unique features include: <ul>
<li>modern terminology that general readers will understand</li> </ul>
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<li>descriptions of twenty prime butterfly spotting sites in the tri-state region </li> </ul>
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<li>information on how to raise butterflies from larval to adult stages </li> </ul>
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<li>an extensive bibliography of additional resources.</li> </ul>
With increasing interest in butterfly gardening, many readers will appreciate practical how-to chapters for planning, installing, and maintaining a custom butterfly sanctuary in their own yards. More conservationists are recognizing the importance of butterflies to the ecosystem―as plant pollinators and examples of natural mimicry and coloration. The authors of this guidebook hope that a deeper understanding of these intriguing insects will lead to their protection and to preservation of their habitat.

Butterflies of Oklahoma, Kansas, and North Texas

Science & Math

Gerard, Walter B

Nelson, John M

Biological Sciences

University of Oklahoma Press

The latest techniques for propagating crops with terminal, stem, and leaf/stem cuttings are the focus of this horticulture handbook. All the bases are covered―propagation basics, stock plant management, media, temperature, light, nutrition, plant growth regulators, insect and disease management, equipment, and postharvest handling. From these general subjects, the editors focus in on specifics for scores of specialty bedding plants, perennials, specialty cut flowers, and foliage plants. Then they zoom in even closer, covering more than 60 important floriculture crops in detail so propagators and growers can provide high-quality cuttings and young plants to the market.

Cutting Propagation: A Guide to Propagating and Producing Floriculture Crops

Gibson, James L.

Ball Publishing

With information on 25 popular seed and cutting-propagated bedding plant species, this fully illustrated study based on research conducted at North Carolina State University explains the causes of nutrient deficiencies and provides diagnostic techniques for each one as well as corrective procedures and proactive measures to help growers avoid plant nutrient problems altogether. With a chapter devoted to each cropincluding impatiens, begonia, pepper, tomato, and basilthis guide features color photographs showing the progressive stages of deficiency for 11 nutrients essential for healthy plant growth. With this resource, growers will be able to diagnose deficiencies at various stages so that problems may be treated early and growers will be able to minimize crop damage and maximize a crop’s economic value.

Nutrient Deficiencies in Bedding Plants: A Pictorial Guide for Identification and Correction

Nelson, Paul V.

Pitchay, Dharmalingam S.

Williams-Rhodes, Amy L.

Whipker, Brian E.

Chicago Review Press

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