History of Horticulture

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Crop

Any plant that is harvested systematically

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Cultivated crop

Any plant which is grown through human interference; even if it is a wild plant

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Domesticated crops

Involves interference in the reproductive process, genetically different from their wild state, wild wheat (shatters) vs. bread wheat (non-shattering)

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Theophrastus

Considered one of the first scientific horticulturists and father of botany

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Notable contributions ancient Greece made to horticulture/agriculture

Grafting and budding, fertility testing, and the development of greenhouse structures

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Carrolus Linneaus

Swedish botanist (1707 -1778) that developed the binomial system of classification, classified plants based on flowering or sexual characteristics

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Liberty Hyde Bailey

Considered the Father of Horticulture (1858 -1954), renowned author, taxonomist,
educator, and administrator, wrote Cyclopedia of Horticulture

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Established in 1862

Homestead Act, USDA, and Morrill Act