CHAPTER XI 

 SUPPLEMENT 



SECTION LIV HORTICULTURE 



THE word horticulture is one of those broad words 

 under which much is grouped. It includes the cultiva- 

 tion of orchard fruits, such as apples and plums ; of small 

 fruits, such as strawberries and raspberries ; of garden 

 vegetables for the table; of flowers of all sorts, including 

 shrubbery and ornamental trees and their arrangement 

 into beautiful landscape effects around our homes. Horti- 

 culture then is a name for an art that is both far-reaching 

 and important. 



The word gardening is generally given to that part of 

 horticulture which has for its chief aim the raising of 

 vegetables for our tables. 



Flower gardening, or the cultivation of plants that are 

 valued for their bloom in making ornamental beds and 

 borders and furnishing flowers for the decoration of the 

 home, is generally called florictilture . Landscape garden- 

 ing is the art of so arranging flower beds, grass, shrubbery, 

 and trees as to produce pleasing effects in the grounds sur- 

 rounding our homes, and in the formation of great public 

 parks and pleasure grounds. 



Landscape gardening like architecture has developed 

 into a great art and is now regarded as one of the 



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