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Horticulture Subject Guide LRC@TCC
Scope: Resources in horticulture and a horticulture
webliography.
Call number areas to browse:
| QK Botany |
S 1-972 Agriculture (General) |
| SB 1-111 Plant Culture |
SB 317.5-450.87 Horticultural Crops |
| SB 354-402 Fruits and Fruit Culture |
SB 403.450.7 Flower & Flower Culture, Ornamental Plants |
| SB 450.9-486 Gardens and Landscape Gardening |
SB 599-990.5 Pests and Diseases |
Keywords to search:
plants, botany, seeds, landscape, horticulture, organic, gardening, fruit,
vegetables, crops, flowers and individual plant names
Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
| Arboriculture |
Botany |
| Forcing Plants |
Fruit Culture |
| Gardening |
Greenhouse Management, |
| Hydroponics |
Landscape Gardening |
| Plant Propagation |
Nurseries (horticulture) |
Books. Periodicals, and Audiovisuals in our catalog: Use library subject headings and keywords in the library catalog to locate books, periodicals and audiovisuals owned by the library. You can limit your search by campus holdings, language and format (books, computer files, visual materials, etc.).
Library Online Database Resources:
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Associates Programs Source (EBSCO)
Environment Complete (EBSCO)
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Science in Context
AGRICOLA (not full text)
Biological Sciences (not full text)
Plant
Science (not full text)
Internet Resources:
American
Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) The American Society for
Horticultural Science (ASHS) was established in 1903 for the promotion
of the science of horticulture.
American Horticultural Society get
connected to great gardens around the world, gardening education for
all levels of skill, sources of information on any garden subject imaginable,
a community of gardeners eager to share their experiences, other great
gardening events and activities, and much, much more.
Botanicus.org The Missouri Botanical
Garden Library has many lovely examples of 18th and 19th century botanical
literature from all around the world. While
they began digitizing some of these works in 1995, they recently decided
to expand their collection to include non-illustrated works of significant
importance to taxonomic botany.
Floricutlure
and Environmental Horticulture Briefing Room The U.S. Economic
Research Service analyzes conditions and trends that influence supply,
demand, trade, and prices
in the
domestic floriculture and nursery markets.
Garden Web Forum, plant exchange,
and a searchable database of gardens, arboretums and gardening organizations
in the U.S.
International Society of Arboriculture is
a worldwide professional organization dedicated to fostering a greater
appreciation for trees and to promoting research, technology, and the
professional practice of arboriculture.
PLANTS Database provides standardized
information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts,
and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant
symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics,
images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools.
WebGarden
Resources--Ohio State University Factsheet Database A browsing
and searchable database of over 5,500 horticultural factsheets
in eleven categories ranging from flowers to perennials to trees
and shrubs.
UC
Pest Management Guidelines This site contains information on
various pests including insects, weeds, vertebrates and plant
diseases. For
each pest, it provides information on identification, biology,
impact and management.
Virginia Cooperative Extension (Virginia
Tech) provides educational resources for gardening, greenhouse management,
and other
related topics.
NC State University,
A & T State University Cooperative Extension provides printable
horticulture information bulletins.
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