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Horticulture
Horticulture has been defined as the agriculture of plants, mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty. According to American horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey, "Horticulture is the growing of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and of plants for ornament and fancy." A more precise definition can be given as "The cultivation, processing, and sale of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and ornamental plants as well as many additional services". It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, soil management, landscape and garden design, construction and maintenance, and arboriculture. In con
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Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.
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― The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
― The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
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As early humans moved about, they were accompanied by a whole entourage of creatures they had come to depend on, or learned to coexist with — not only their crop plants and domesticated animals, which they carried with them deliberately, but also the creatures that had adopted them during their lengthy process of developing agriculture and animal husbandry and building habitations and cities, roads and canals, seaports and fortifications. To quote Anderson [Edgar Anderson, Plants, Man, and Life:
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― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
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