Horticultural Sentence Examples

Purdue University's horticultural department provides background information and a nutritional chart on mangosteen fruit for those who wish to examine the exact nutritional makeup of the fruit.

See Hyacinths for current horticultural and botanical information.

Calceolaria John Innes - A remarkably fine plant raised at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Surrey, the result of crossing C. plantaginea and C. polyrrhiza.

For current botanical and horticultural information, see Sumac.

I am a horticultural therapist and landscaper.

Paxton was elected in 1826 a fellow of the Horticultural Society.

These crocuses of the flower garden are mostly horticultural varieties of C. vernus, C. versicolor and C. aureus (Dutch crocus), the two former yielding the white, purple and striped, and the latter the yellow varieties.

A good account of the new species and principal varieties discovered since 1880, with much information on the cultivation of lilies and the diseases to which they are subject, will be found in the report of the Conference on Lilies, in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1901.

Of the learned societies the more important are the medical (1840), the naturalists' (1869), the juridical (1876), the historical of Nestor the Chronicler (1872), the horticultural (1875), and the dramatic (1879), the archaeological commission (1843), and the society of church archaeology.

In 1829 Lindley, who since 1822 had been assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society, was appointed to the chair of botany in University College, London, which he retained till 1860; he lectured also on botany from 1831 at the Royal Institution, and from 1836 at the Botanic Gardens, Chelsea.

During his professoriate he wrote many scientific and popular works, besides contributing largely to the Botanical Register, of which he was editor for many years, and to the Gardener's Chronicle, in which he had charge of the horticultural department from 1841.

Collections of fruit grown in British Columbia have received premier honours at the competitive exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society in London, where their high quality and fine colour have been greatly appreciated.

Among other provincial agencies for Agri imparting information there are farmers' institutes, cultural travelling dairies, live-stock associations, farmers', dairymen's, seed-growers', and fruit-growers' associa- tions tions, and agricultural and horticultural societies.

There are also annual agricultural exhibitions of a highly important character, where improvements in connexion with agricultural and horticultural products, live-stock, implements, &c., are shown in competition.

The inner city is girdled on the south and east by the Kungspark, which contains Molin's famous group of statuary, the Belt-bucklers (Bdltespdnnare), and by the beautiful gardens of the Horticultural Society (Trddgardsforeningen).

From a careful series of experiments made in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick, it was found that where the soil is loamy, or light and slightly enriched with decayed vegetable matter, the apple succeeds best on the doucin stock, and the pear on the quince; and where it is chalky it is preferable to graft the apple on the crab, and the pear on the wild pear.

They are, moreover, illustrated and described in the catalogues of most nurserymen and dealers in horticultural sundries.

This, too, the Royal Horticultural Society was once wont to do, with valuable results, as in the case of David Douglas's remarkable expedition to North America in 1823-1824.

Such changes take place naturally, but they are often increased by the art of the gardener, and the object of many horticultural operations is to increase the bulk and succulence of leaves.

The town possesses a museum with good archaeological and natural history collections, a literary institute and a horticultural society.

There has been more than one horticultural excitement in California, but especially in orange culture, which was for a time almost as epidemic a fever as gold seeking once was.

This building is occupied by the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a technical museum, &c. The school of mines and industries (1903) stands east of this again.

There are two high schools, one experimental station, twenty-two middle schools and forty-eight lower schools of agriculture, besides ten horticultural schools.

Finally, there are numerous horticultural societies, large nurseries and gardening schools at Stockholm, Alnarp and elsewhere, and botanical gardens attached to the universities of Lund and Upsala.

When the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington were being planned, Albert, Prince Consort, the president of the society, especially desired that there should be a maze formed in the ante-garden, which was made in the form shown in fig.

In addition to his scientific and professorial labours, Brongniart held various important official posts in connexion with the department of education, and interested himself greatly in agricultural and horticultural matters.

Further instruction was given at various horticultural institutes in the towns, notably the Botanic Gardens and Institute of Bucharest, where the experiments in planting figs, almonds, hops and cotton yielded favourable results.

Peaches are next in importance, and horticultural enthusiasts believe that the possibilities of this crop are very great.

Other fruits are raised with much success, and in 1904 at St Louis the horticultural exhibit of the state led those of all other states in the medals received for excellence; but nevertheless its relative rank in the Union as a fruit-producing state is still low.

Loveland in the Morton history and agricultural and horticultural reports; Annual Reports of the State Board of Agriculture and State Horticultural Society; Publications of the State Bureau of Statistics and Labor; and Bulletins 52 (1904) and 66 (1905) of the United States Bureau of Forestry.

A horticultural society has lately been established at Cardiff under favorable auspices, which may perhaps restore the culture of the apple.

Wherever horticultural crops are grown intensively, root knot nematodes are a problem.

The new world-class greenhouse will mark a new chapter in horticultural excellence with life-long learning at its heart.

Horticultural fleece, in single, or double or even triple layers works well.

The Awards are open to any manufacturer or importer of equipment for the agricultural, horticultural, forestry or amenity industries.

Use horticultural grit or mix 2 to cover seeds lightly.

In the UK, the average size of horticultural holdings is 16 hectares.

Rhododendron ponticum has become highly invasive in the British Isles following its introduction for horticultural purposes in the 18 th century.

Although the common ivy Hedera helix appears the most frequent, a variety of cultivars and other species are available for horticultural use.

Advisory notes Approved products containing methyl bromide are available for agricultural, horticultural, food storage and space spray use.

Water retention by horticultural perlite is not an indiscriminate action.

Outstanding displays of horticultural sundries, floral arrangements and floristry complete the picture.

The Horticultural Society 's annual show is held in the Rectory ground on August 23rd.

Many of the Halls Greenhouses offer a choice of horticultural, toughened glass or shatter proof polycarbonate.

Interesting gardens, tho the main horticultural selling-point is its snowdrop displays in February.

See Dahlias for contemporary horticultural information about Dahlias.

Boilers set in brickwork are sometimes used in domestic work, although they are more favoured for horticultural heating.

Both elementary day schools and continuation schools are in many cases provided with gardens in which horticultural teaching is given.

He also edited the Cottage Calendar, the Horticultural Register and the Botanical Magazine.

The neighbouring gardens belong to the Royal Horticultural Society.

The Royal Horticultural Society maintains gardens at Wisley, Surrey, and has an exhibition hall in Vincent Square, Westminster.

A large number of horticultural varieties have been developed by hybridization, some of which have a variegated foliage.

Karlsruhe possesses further the Zahringen museum of curiosities, which is in the left wing of the Schloss; an architectural school (1891); industrial art school and museum; cadet school (1892); botanical and electrotechnical institutes; and horticultural and agricultural schools.

The department has also endeavoured to encourage the fruit-growing industry in Ireland by the establishment of a horticultural school at Glasnevin, by efforts to secure uniformity in the packing and grading of fruit, by the establishment of experimental fruit-preserving factories, by the planting of orchards on a large scale in a few districts, and by pioneer lectures.