Semester-III
Title of the Course : Nursery and Gardening
Nature of course : SEC-III
Course code :
Total Credits : 03
Distribution of Marks: 45+30=75
Lectures: 45
Unit 1: (6 lectures)
Nursery: definition, objectives and scope and building up of infrastructure for nursery, planning and seasonal activities – Planting – direct seeding and transplants. Seed storage: Seed banks, factors affecting seed viability, genetic erosion- Seed production technology –
Unit 2: (6 lectures)
Vegetative propagation: air-layering, cutting, selection of cutting, collecting season, treatment of cutting, rooting medium.
Unit 3: (6 lectures)
Seed testing and certification; Greenhouse – mist chamber, shed root, shade house and glass house. Vegetative propagation: air-layering, cutting, selection of cutting, collecting season, treatment of cutting, rooting medium and planting of cuttings – Hardening of plants – green house – mist chamber, shed root, shade house and glass house.
Unit 4: (6 lectures)
Gardening: Different types of gardening – landscape and home gardening – parks and its components – plant materials and design.
Unit 5: (6 lectures)
Gardening operations: soil preparation, manuring, watering, management of pests and diseases and harvesting. Sowing/raising of seeds and seedlings – Transplanting of seedlings.
Practical
Exposure visit to established nurseries, farms etc., preparation of cuttings/seedlings of some important horticultural crops.
Suggested Readings
1. Bose T.K. & Mukherjee, D., 1972, Gardening in India, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
2. Sandhu, M.K., 1989, Plant Propagation, Wile Eastern Ltd., Bangalore, Madras.
3. Kumar, N., 1997, Introduction to Horticulture, Rajalakshmi Publications, Nagercoil.
4. Edmond Musser & Andres, Fundamentals of Horticulture, McGraw Hill Book Co., New Delhi.
5. Agrawal, P.K. 1993, Hand Book of Seed Technology, Dept. of Agriculture and Cooperation, National Seed Corporation Ltd., New Delhi.
6. Janick Jules. 1979. Horticultural Science. (3rd Ed.), W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, USA.