Horticulture Exam 1 Questions and

Horticulture Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Definition of Horticulture - Correct Answers ✅− Latin- Hortus: garden; Cultura: cultivation − Involves production, cultivation, management, genetic improvement, storage, marketing, and use of fruit, nut, vegetable, and landscape plants Differences in Agronomy vs. Horticulture such as crops grown, and land vs. labor/profit - Correct Answers ✅− Agronomy

• Labor extensive
• Large tracts of land
• Low return for each acre
• Large equipment for cotton bales, hay bales, stripping

cotton, planting, etc.

• Weeds are one of the biggest killers of agronomy

− Horticulture

• Labor intensive (higher more labor, more hours)
• Individual plant (specific care for specific plants)
• High return for each acre
• Landscaping- ball parks, TTU flower boxes, around personal

homes, football fields, gardens

• Climbing trees, nursery (caring for young trees),

transferring trees from one place to another, interiorscaping 1 / 3

Horticulture Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Know names for main branches in horticulture (Arboriculture, pomology, Olericulture, viticulture, etc.) - Correct Answers ✅o Pomology- fruits/nuts (typically on trees)

• Viticulture- grapes (knowing the whole vineyard system)
• Olericulture- vegetable production
• Arboriculture- urban forestry
• Nursery management (typically plants in pots moved to an

actual landscape)

• Turfgrass
• Design/Installation/Maintenance (landscape manager)
• Floriculture (greenhouse crops)
• Interiorscaping (knowing the air inside)
• Floral design (harvest, décor)
• Horticulture therapy (dealing with people who have special

gardening abilities, using plants to cultivate memory) List Benefits of Plants for Humans - Correct Answers ✅Wood, textiles, clothes, essential oils, drugs and medicines, latex, waxes, perfumes and spices, aesthetic purposes Know Agriculture History and what was associated with each era mentioned. (EX: Ancient Egyptians, irrigation canal 2 / 3

Horticulture Exam 1 Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) system) - Correct Answers ✅1st profession in the Garden of Eden- − Adam was asked to care for the garden's plants, animals, etc Hanging Gardens of Babylon- − 1st of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Worlds − grew elaborate gardens all over the site Ancient Egyptians- − Irrigation canal system − Established a system for civilization where they did not have to worry about drought − We still currently use this system in the West Coast (California, Washington, Idaho) History of Agriculture in America- Native Americans- − Three Sister Garden- companion planting − Corn, squash, and bean − Corn- structure for beans to climb towards the sun to get better light which helps flowering

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