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Agriculture for Secondary Schools
Ornamental crops: These are crops that are grown for decorative purposes in
gardens and landscapes. Ornamental crops beautify environment with their peculiar
features like flowers, leaves, stems or pleasant natural smell. Ornamental crops are
sometimes used as houseplants, cut flowers and specimen displays. They include
crops such as rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, aster, dahlia, gerbera, gladiolus, tulip
as well as ornamental grasses which are used in landscaping. Some ornamental
crops are shown in Figures 1.70 to 1.73.
Figure 1.70 (a): Pink rose Figure 1.70 (b): Red rose
Figure 1.70 (c): Violet rose Figure 1.71 (a): Dark pink carnation
Figure 1.71 (b): Pink carnation Figure 1.71 (c): White and red carnation
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