本书是关于介绍“园艺英语”的教学用书，全书18个单元，具体包括了：花卉、蔬菜、果树栽培育种、贮运加工、生物技术及相关的管理系统知识等方面的内容。

本书适合英语专业本科学生以及从事相关工作的专业人士学习、参考使用。

本书是按照高等院校专业英语教学要求，为提高学生的专业英语水平，收集国外园艺相关的科技文章和新技术介绍，并结合多年来园艺教学实践的体会、汲取其他有关资料而编写的。本书选材多样，内容丰富，既由蔬菜、果树和观赏园艺三个方面构成，又从栽培、育种、生物技术、产品采后处理等各个环节形成园艺学科完整的教学体系。全书18个单元，每一单元由精读、泛读、关键字句解释、专业词汇和练习组成。课文附有译文可供教师和学生参考，是高等农林院校本科生的适用教材，也可供园艺工作者和广大业余爱好者学习参考。

Unit 1

  Part A Temperature

  Part B Condition Factors

Unit 2

  Part A Plant Growth Factors Which Affect Nursery Crop Production

  Part B Pruning

Unit 3

  Part A Sexual Propagation of Flower

  Part B Management

Unit 4

  Part A Asexual Propagation of Flower

  Part B Others Asexual Propagation Methods

Unit 5

  Part A Nursery Container Production Overview

  Part B Potting Media

Unit 6

  Part A Cultivation of Specific Woody Crop Groups

  Part B Calculating Plant Needs

Unit 7

  Part A General Principles of Postharvest Physiology

  Part B Storage of Cut Flowers and Potted Plants

Unit 8

  Part A Gerbera

  Part B Hedera

Unit 9

  Part A Genetic Engineering for Cut-Flower Improvement

  Part B Geophytes

Unit 10

  Part A How to Establish a Healthy New Lawn

  Part B Managing Turf in Shade

Unit 11

  Part A Vegetable Seed Savers

  Part B Storing Seeds for Longevity

Unit 12 

  Part A Breeding Methods

  Part B Plant Improvement

Unit 13

  Part A Growing Tomatoes

  Part B Vegetable Crops

Unit 14

  Part A RAPD Analysis of Seed Purity in a Commercial Hybrid Cabbage Cultivar

  Part B The Polymerase Chain Reaction

Unit 15

  Part A Propagation of Nursery Stock

  Part B Propagation of Fruit Trees

Unit 16

  Part A Growing Apple Trees

  Part B Growing Plum Trees

Unit 17

  Part A Pruning of Apple Trees

  Part B Pruning and Training Fruit Trees

Unit 18

  Part A Breeding Techniques of Apples

  Part B Evaluation of Fruit

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