Nursery Production and Management

HORT 431

II. Nursery Site Development, Organization and Structures: (1)Wholesale (2) Retail

Reading Assignments:

Page
1. Hamilton & Midcap -- Factors to Consider when starting a Nursery 43
2. TAMU Water Analysis 45
3. Reed -- Quality of Irrigation Water and Interpretation of Analysis 46
4. McWilliams -- Ornamental Plants and Municipal Water 48
5. Francois -- Salt Tolerance of Eight Ornamental Tree Species 50
6. James -- Irrigation Water Treatment 51
7. Texas Annual Precipitation 52
8. Valley Water Shortage 53
9. Urbano -- The Great Disappearing Act of Usable American Water 54
10. Borland -- Water and Energy - Conservation Through Creative Landscaping 58
11. Linear Layout of a Nursery 61
12. Concentric Layout of a Nursery 62
13. Curvilinear Layout of a Nursery 63
14. Physical Layout of Monrovia Nursery 64
15. Physical Layout of Hines Nursery -- Texas 65
16. Irwin -- Location, Capital, Goods 66
17. Trusty -- Plan for Success When Planning Garden Center Changes 69
18.Wertheim -- Designing the Garden Center73
19. Kepner -- Retail Nursery Layout 79
20. Rost -- Signs, Displays and Traffic Flow Patterns are Keys to Better Sales 81

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