SECTION III.— HORTICULTURE 



CHAPTER XVII 

 I. POMOLOGY 



Before going further we need to know the difference 

 between horticulture and agriculture. Professor Bailey says 

 that "agriculture in its largest meaning is the raising of 

 products from the land." However, "agriculture is usually 

 limited to the growing of grain, forage, bread-stuffs, textiles, 

 and the like, and to the raising of animals. Horticulture is 

 the growing of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and of plants 

 for ornament or fancy." We see from these definitions that 

 what we have been saying about soils and crops and what 

 we shall say about animals and dairying is to be considered 

 under agriculture, while what we are now to say about fruits, 

 vegetables, and flowers refers to horticulture. 



Horticulture is of two kinds : that which is concerned with 

 growing such fruits, vegetables, flowers and shrubs as almost 

 every farmer will want on his farm and that which is con- 

 cerned with the growing of certain kinds of fruits, etc., on a 

 large scale, that is, for market purposes. Professor Bailey 

 divides horticulture into four main divisions: * 1. Pomology, 

 which means the growing of fruits. 2. Olericulture, the 

 growing of vegetables. 3. Floriculture, the raising of orna- 

 mental plants for their individual uses or products. 4. Land- 



* Cyclopedia of Horticulture, topic Horticulture. 

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