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Horticulture
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The garden-scale sister of agronomy: fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants, grown intensively on small plots rather than broadcast across fields. Where agronomy thinks in hectares of one crop, horticulture thinks in rows, beds, orchards and greenhouses.
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Central QuestionHorticulture is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants, generally on a garden or orchard scale rather than a field scale. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The research-driven branch of horticulture devoted to fruit
A branch of the science of horticulture
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