Few terminologies

a) Hortus means garden

b) Culture means cultivation

• Turf grasses are considered under ornamental horticulture.

c) Blanching : Treating fruits and vegetables in hot water before canning.

d) Callus : Group of undifferentiated tissue or wounded tissue.

e) Dehydration: Frying by artificially produced heat under carefully controlled condition of temperature, humidity and air flow.

f) Hybrid/ chimera

g) Pickling: Preservation of fruits and vegetables in common salt or vinegar.

h) Scion: Upper part of the graft union.

i) Sod culture: Cultivation of grass in orchard.

j) Squash: Consists of essentially strained containing moderate quantities of fruits in which can sugar is added for sweetening.

k) Syrup: Clear sugar syrup which have been artificially flavored.

l) Tomato ketchup: Collecting tomato juice or pulp without seed and skin.

m) Twig: Stem one year old or less without leaves.

n) Vegetable forcing: Growing vegetables out of season.

o) Viability: Capacity to germinate

p) Vitality: Strength or vigor of growth.

q) Primed seeds: Seeds soaked in a special solution to initiate physiological process for quick germination.

i.e. Warm season crop: 15-25 ⁰C.

Cold Season crop : <10 ⁰C.

Note: Geranium requires darkness to germinate.

s) Hardening off : Reducing required condition like water, nutrients and temperature to make plant ready for transplanting.