Flower Production and Gardening
Contents: 1. Importance and Scope of Ornamental Horticulture/S.S. Sindhu and M.R. Dhiman. 2. Principles and Elements of Landscape Design/Ashutosh Mishra. 3. Styles of Gardening and Different Types of Garden/S.K. Khandelwal. 4. Turfgrass Management: Principles and Practices/S.L. Chawla, Roshni Agnihotri and R.D. Pawar. 5. Cultivation and Management of Annual Flowers/Ajai Kumar Tiwari, Babita Singh, Ritu Jain and Gunjeet Kumar. 6. Ornamental Shrubs and Their Management/L.N. Bairwa and A.K. Mahawar. 7. Climbers/Madhu Bala. 8. Trees/Simrat Singh. 9. Indoor Plants/R.K. Dubey and Simrat Singh. 10. Cacti and Succulents/Sapna Panwar, Namita and Neelam Thakur. 11. Bonsai/Reeta Bhatia, Saurabh Singh and Shyam Sundar Dey. 12. Rose/S.S. Sindhu and Namita. 13. Carnation/S.R. Dhiman, Puja Sharma, Bharati Kashyap, Arshi Sultanpuri,Kalkame Ch. Momin and Pratibha Chauhan. 14. Chrysanthemum/L.N. Mahawer, A.L. Regar and Sadam Hussain. 15. Cultivation of Gerbera/Tanya Thakur and K. K. Dhatt. 16. Orchids/N.K. Meena and Ram Pal. 17. Anthurium/Sanchita Ghosh, Ajit Kumar, Tripti Tewari and Syed Khudus. 18. Gladiolus/L.N. Mahawer, Saddam Hussain and A.L. Regar. 19. Aster/B.D. Bhuj and Yograj Kushwaha. 20. Tuberose/P. K. Yadav and Priyanka Kumawat. 21. Bird of Paradise and Heliconia/K. Nihad. 22. Dahlia/Simrat Singh, R. K. Dubey and K. K. Dhatt. 23. Lilium/M.R. Dhiman. 24. Statice/Ranjit Singh and Parminder Singh. 25. Jasmines/Safeena S.A. 26. Marigold/B.S. Beniwal and Sonu Kumari Sheoran. 27. Lotus/P. K.Yadav and Kumari Lata. 28. Post-Harvest Handling of Flowers/Puja Sharma, S.R. Dhiman, Priyanka Sharma and Panchal Sangmesh. 29. Dehydration of Flowers for Value-Addition/Bharati Kashyap, Rajesh Bhalla, S.R. Dhiman, Puja Sharma and Sangeeta Kumari. 30. Importance of Cut Foliage and Fillers in Floriculture Industry/Vanlalruati, Ritu Jain, Prativa Anand, Babita Singh and Gunjeet Kumar. 31. Flower Arrangement: Principles and Methods/Yeshpal Singh, Kumari Lata and P. K.Yadav. 32. Essential Oils in Ornamental Plants/Ashish, S. Ghormade, Kumari Lata, Parag Sable and Sumed Thorat.
Floriculture is a fast emerging and rapidly expanding industry through strong research and development. It covers all aspects related to commercial growing, marketing, arrangement of seeds and bulbs, plants, flowers etc. On the other hand gardening is all about the planning and planting of an area to secure a relationship between the landscape and plants to meet the human needs for beauty and function in the best way.
The present title has been planned and designed to meet the long - felt need for a book covering major aspects of important floriculture crops. This book would serve as a reliable source of information about all the important and relevant aspects of floriculture and ornamental horticulture for various uses including production technology of export quality flowers to the persons who are associated with or working in floriculture with the latest information for further advancement.
