Landscape gardening ornamental plant breeding and cultivation

Author: Fang Weimin
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book is edited by Fang Weimin and Chen Fadi from Nanjing Agricultural University. It covers the functions, benefits, and classification of ornamental seedlings. The content includes the collection, storage, and testing of ornamental seedling seeds, as well as the propagation and cultivation techniques such as sowing, cuttings, grafting, division, layering, and nurturing. The book also discusses the selection, planning, and management of nurseries, the transplantation, shaping, pruning, pest and disease control, and harvesting of seedlings. Additionally, it provides cultivation techniques for 144 common and new ornamental evergreen trees, deciduous trees, evergreen shrubs, deciduous shrubs, and vines. The book is rich in content, up-to-date in knowledge, advanced in technology, practical in methods, easy to understand, and highly operational. It serves as a positive guide for improving the propagation and cultivation of ornamental seedlings, promoting environmental greening in gardens and residential areas, and optimizing the ecological environment.