What Do You Know About Floriculture? Trivia Quiz
What do you know about floriculture? Could you pass a quiz on the subject? Floriculture is more affectionately known as “flower farming. ” It is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for gardens and floristry. This procedure is an area of horticulture that is very important to flowers. If you want to see how much you know about floriculture, take this quiz!
- 1.A cultivar is
- A.
The cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants.
- B.
A race or variety of a plant that has been created or selected intentionally and maintained through cultivation.
- C.
The process that forces bud break and active growth.
- 2.Floriculture is a
- A.
Production and marketing of vegetables
- B.
The study and selection, planting, care, and removal of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants.
- C.
Branch of ornamental horticulture concerned with growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants, as well as with flower arrangement.
- D.
Production and marketing of grapes
- 3.Commercial crops are grown either in the field or under protected cultivation, such as in glass or plastic structures.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Field production is confined to warm climates or to summer months in colder areas.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Pronounced improvements in cultivars have not been made
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Modern cultivars have traits such as more attractive flower colors and forms, longer-lasting flowers, better growth habit, increased resistance to insects and disease organisms, or ability to grow and flower at cooler night temperatures
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Greenhouse production is confined by climate or season
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.What are typical field crops?
- A.
Gladiolus
- B.
Chrysanthemums
- C.
Asters
- D.
Gypsophila
- E.
All of the above
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