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HORTICULTURE (Lat. hortus, a garden)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 741 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORTICULTURE (See also:Lat. hortus, a See also:garden)  , the See also:art and See also:science of the cultivation of See also:garden See also:plants, whether for utilitarian or for decorative purposes . The subject naturally divides itself into two sections, which we here propose to treat separately, commencing with the science, and passing on to the practice of the cultivation of See also:flowers, fruits and vegetables as applicable to the See also:home garden . The point of view taken is necessarily, as a See also:rule, that of a See also:British gardener .

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