About the Book: Commercial Ornamental Crops Traditional and Loose Flowers
This book deals with 43 chapters. Part I deals with 29 most commonly cultivated
ornamental crops such as Amaranthus, Annual Chrysanthemum, Asclepias and
Calotropis, Barlelia, Celosia argentea, Crossandra, Dahlia, Dianthus,
Eranthemum, Ervatamia divaricata, Gaillardia, Gomphrena, Helianthus, Hibiscus,
Hymenocallis, Ixora, Jasminum, Lawsonia inermis, Nelumbo, Nerium, Nyctanthes
arbortristis, Nymphaea, Paeonia, Pandanus, Polianathes tuberosa, Rosa,
Rudbeckia, Tagetes and Thevetia. Each crop is described with its nomenclature,
origin, brief history and importance; botany; classification, species and
varieties; methods of propagation; cultural practices; manipulation of growth
and flowering; postharvest management; and insect-pests, diseases and
physiological disorders in a very lucid term. Part II contains