Breeding of Perennial Horticultural Crops

Floriculture deals with cut or loose flowers, ornamental plants, such as foliage plants, trees, shrubs, climbers, palms, bamboo, cacti and succulents, dried flowers, essential oils and landscape gardening. Gardening, an important part of the floriculture business, has aesthetic value and is becoming a necessity for pollution-free environment in cities. Landscaping is important for offices, residences, educational institutes, supermarkets, etc., as it is the building’s exterior that leaves the first impression on people. Parks and gardens offer a place to people to relax and enjoy the nature’s beauty. A lawn is an integral part of a garden and is primarily laid for aesthetic purposes. It is written in a lucid style with theoretical discussions and being supplemented with illustrations and tables for easy understanding of the subject. It presents all the basics and advanced information in their easiest way for the readers thus, especially designed to cover all the aspects of floriculture and landscaping. It has been compiled especially for the students, teachers, researchers and it would also be useful to the gardeners, floriculturist professional as well as garden and nature lovers.