PLS 6 Lecture 1: Lecture 1 - 4/4/17
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Flowers in society: flowers have always represented a way to add beauty and interest to our world, gardens represented a major form of entertainment for the wealthy, even today communities are maintaining these elements (at great expense). Example of old horticulture technology: orangerie (ancient greenhouse, rich people used it to grow oranges, old transplanter. Floriculture: all about ornamental plants, cut-flowers, bedding plants (garden and landscape plants, container-grown landscape plants (nursery product, flowering potted plants and foliage potted plants (florist product, production (greenhouse and nursery production, making things last (postharvest handling, using flowers. Who was carl linnaeus: swedish botanist developed the modern scheme for classifying plants. Natur published in 1735 was the starting point for this: today every plant has a scientific name that includes genus and species. Taxonomic classification of plants: kingdom plants, phylum class order family genus (pl. genera) species, horticulture subdivisions. In addition to a scientific name, many flowers also have common names.
