What is horticulture?
Horticulture, the cultivation of a garden. The term has outgrown its original limits and is now to be distinguished from agriculture only in a general way. The latter has to do with field crops. Bailey, the highest American authority, recognizes four branches of horticulture, namely: fruit growing or pomology, relating to the care of orchards; vegetable gardening f or the home or market; floriculture, the raising of flowers, and ornamental plants; and landscape gardening. About 25,000 species of plants come within the range of American horticulture. About one-tenth of these are native. Our grapes, raspberries, dewberries, blackberries, mulberries, cranberries, some of our gooseberries, and several of our plums and apples have been developed from American varieties. Pumpkins, beans, and corn were raised by the Indians before the coming of the European men.
