Arboriculture
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Arboriculture is the selection, planting, care, and removal of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants, and the study of how they grow and respond to cultural practices and the environment.
The purpose is generally to manage individual woody plants, usually in a garden or urban setting, for plant health and longevity, pest and pathogen resistance, risk management, maximum return on investment, and ornamental or aesthetic reasons. In this, it needs to be distinguished from forestry, which is the commercial production and use of timber and other forest products from plantations and forests. Arboriculture can be considered to have a similar relationship to forestry as gardening has to agriculture. Arboriculture is practiced in urban forestry as silviculture is practiced forestry.
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[edit] External links
- Trees Are Good General Tree-Care Info
- Arboristsite.com - Online forum devoted to discussions by thousands of arborist professionals. Topics discussed include arboriculture, logging, nursery, fertilization and pesticides, employment issues and tools related to the industry.
[edit] References
- Harris, Richard W. (1983). ARBORICULTURE: Care of Trees, Shrubs, and Vines in the Landscape. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632: Prentice-Hall, Inc., pp. 2-3. ISBN 0-13-043935-5.
