Ornamental

Ornamental
Author: Juan Cárdenas
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 156689588X

A scientist recruits volunteers for the trial of a new recreational drug that exclusively affects women. Among them is “Number 4,” who becomes emotionally involved with first the scientist and then his wife, a well-known visual artist in the midst of a creative crisis. The scientist is oblivious to the atrocities his new drug will bring to the city; his wife is oblivious to the superfluousness of the objects she has made her life’s work exhibiting in galleries and museums. Despite prominence as designers of artificial emotional states, Number 4’s presence in their lives pierces their complacency, gradually undoing the many certainties they’ve accumulated in their lives of ease.

All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental

All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental
Author: Pete Minard
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-04-22
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1469651629

Species acclimatization--the organized introduction of organisms to a new region--is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization. Far from attempting to re-create London or Paris, settlers sought to combine plants and animals to correct earlier environmental damage and to populate forests, farms, and streams to make them healthier and more productive. By focusing particularly on the Australian colony of Victoria, Minard reveals a global network of would-be acclimatizers, from Britain and France to Russia and the United States. Although the movement was short-lived, the long reach of nineteenth-century acclimatization societies continues to be felt today, from choked waterways to the uncontrollable expansion of European pests in former colonies.

Ornamental Calligraphy

Ornamental Calligraphy
Author: George J. Becker
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780486276786

A remarkable series of studies, including 23 complete alphabets, in ornate penmanship. Among the lettering styles: Roman print, German text, Old English print and English church text.

Ornamental Crops

Ornamental Crops
Author: Johan Van Huylenbroeck
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 888
Release: 2018-07-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319906984

Ornamental plants are economically important worldwide. Both growers and consumers ask continuously for new, improved varieties. Although there are numerous ornamental species, ornamental plant breeding and plant breeding research is mainly limited to some major species. This book focuses on the recent advances and achievements in ornamental plant breeding. The first part of the book focuses on plant traits and breeding techniques that are typical for ornamental plants. Eminent research groups write these general chapters. For plant traits like flower colour or shape, breeding for disease resistance and vase or shelf life are reviewed. General technical plant breeding chapters deal with mutation breeding, polyploidisation, in vitro breeding techniques and new developments in molecular techniques. The second part of the book consists of crop-specific chapters. Here all economically major ornamental species are handled together with selected representative species from different plant groups (cut flowers, pot plants, woody ornamental plants). In these crop-specific chapters, the main focus is on recent scientific achievements over the last decade.

The Ornamental Vegetable Garden

The Ornamental Vegetable Garden
Author: Diana Anthony
Publisher: Warwick House Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Edible landscaping
ISBN: 9781894020558

Louis the XIV commissioned a landscape gardener to design the Potager de Roi at Versailles. Many of the fruit and vegetable pruning systems developed by this gardener are still in use today. This beautiful book illustrates the design and planting of the ornamental vegetable garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine to create edible gardens.

Fundamentals of Ornamentals Horticulture and Landscape Gardening

Fundamentals of Ornamentals Horticulture and Landscape Gardening
Author: Ajai Kumar Tiwari
Publisher: New India Publishing Agency
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9789381450079

Ornamental Horticulture is a branch of Horticulture which deals with commercial growing of flowers ornamental plants and beautification of surroundings. This subject assumes great importance in improving total environment and checks visual pollution by way of beautification. The flowers have been eulogised by poets and artists for generations not merely for their ornamental properties but for their versatile curative properties. The Study of ornamental horticulture comprises of two parts i.e. the knowledge of growing of plants like annuals, shrubs, climber, trees, bulbous, succulents and cactus, shade loving plants, lawn etc. and their use in beautification programme. The information on above aspect is scattered in different book and a great difficulty was being felt by students, landscapers and scientist. In this context, a need of simple book on introduction, cultivation and management of ornamental plants is highly demanded by student of Horticulture and florists of India. This book describes in details collection identification, propagation, cultivation, nutritional & weed management, plant and flowers senescence management etc., of annuals, herbs, shrubs, climbers and ornamental trees. Since, beautification involves the principles of art and gardening styles. Therefore, bio aesthetic planning, basics of landscaping and flowers arrangement have also been discussed in details. Special care has been taken to present the subject matter in a simple and lucid style. Book further includes recent available information. The illustrations have been drawn from own specimens with photographs.

Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Ornamental Plants

Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Ornamental Plants
Author: Michael Reid
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Sc
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781786763280

This collection reviews recent research in ornamentals. Part 1 discusses advances in understanding plant physiology, genetic diversity and breeding techniques. Part 2 surveys advances in cultivation techniques in areas such as nutrition, irrigation, protected cultivation and pest management.

Breeding Ornamental Plants

Breeding Ornamental Plants
Author: Dorothy J. Callaway
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781604690941

Breeding plants to encourage specific traits is usual in agriculture but less common in ornamental horticulture. Daffodils, daylilies, hostas, lilacs, magnolias, and rhododendrons are among the 15 subjects covered by experts in the field. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Pests of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers

Pests of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers
Author: David V. Alford
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0124017061

Ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers have always been extremely popular and in large demand. Whether in gardens or parks, common usage of alpines, bedding plants, cacti, cut flowers, house plants and pot plants, as well as herbaceous plants, ornamental grasses, shrubs and trees makes a definitive volume on their pests of essential value to entomologists and plant scientists. The fully revised and updated second edition of Pests of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Flowers follows up the successful previous edition with coverage of many new pests and highly detailed color photographs. The book opens with a review of the main features of insects, mites and other major pest groups. Each major order and family of pests is considered in turn, with details of their status, host range, world distribution, diagnostic features and biology. Descriptions of the characteristic damage caused are also given. - Contains coverage of more than 60 new pests and nearly 90 additional color photographs - Discusses principles of pest control of ornamental plants, followed by sections on the various pests