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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book includes brief description and methods of growing ornamental plants like trees, shrubs, climbers, annuals, palms, ferns, grasses and cacti and succulents, etc. Moreover, history of floriculture, floriculture industry, importance, area and production, industrial importance of ornamental plants and flowers have also been included in the book. There is a special mention on the role of ornamental plants in controlling environmental pollution. Designing of gardens, maintenance of lawn, hedges and edges, rockery, topiary, etc. all have been beautifully placed to make it useful. The book provides an eye view of special type of gardens and garden adornments. Bonsai making and flower arrangement has been dealt with. An endeavour has been made to provide useful and latest information on techniques of vertical gardening and terrariums. The long felt demand of the students in  ornamental horticulture has prompted us to take the initiative in writing this book. This book is written following the syllabus recommended by the 5^th Dean’s Committee of ICAR for colleges and universities of India. It has been written in a simple and easy to understandable language.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laxmi Lal Somani is Retired Director Resident instructions, MPUAT, Udaipur. He went to Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia for undertaking Post-Doctoral work (1975-77). He has over 400 research and technical articles to his credit. He has authored/edited over 175 scholarly books in various fields of agriculture. Prof. Somani has been honored with several academic excellence awards for his outstanding achievements (he has been honoured by University merit Award, Dhiru Morarji Memorial prize and Vijay Shree). The world development parliament also honored him with honorary award DOCTOR OF SCIENCE.