Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management
Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management
Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management
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Security from Theft: Plant library is the best source of informati<strong>on</strong> and there is<br />
every possibility that the documented record may be stolen, hence it is necessary to<br />
maintain the security of the material by employing security guard.<br />
9.2.5 Do’s and D<strong>on</strong>’ts in Library Plants<br />
� Select most popular plants and plants of commercial importance of the specific<br />
area.<br />
� Prepare flash cards from pressed specimens.<br />
� Use herbarium, photographs, photocopies for making plant library<br />
� Develop plant cafeteria in instituti<strong>on</strong>al area<br />
� Make elaborative list of plants and take care of material.<br />
� Soft brush should be used to clean any unwanted sticking of dry specimens<br />
� Store specimen in dust free and moisture proof c<strong>on</strong>tainer.<br />
� Pressed specimen should be preserved in blotting sheets under some pressure<br />
� Care should be taken to keep them free of insect attack.<br />
� Different types of specimens sorted alphabetically should be pasted separately.<br />
� The storage box or cabinet may be provided with glass viewer<br />
A few plants popular in plant library,<br />
Climbers and Creeping Plants<br />
Sr.<br />
No.<br />
Comm<strong>on</strong> name Botanical name Seas<strong>on</strong><br />
Flower<br />
Colour<br />
Propagati<strong>on</strong><br />
Method<br />
1 Garlic climber Adenocalymma March to Pink Air layering and<br />
Lasun Vel alliaceum June mauve cuttings<br />
2 Allamanda Allamanda Round the Yellow Cutting air<br />
cathartica year<br />
layers<br />
3 Coral vine Antig<strong>on</strong><strong>on</strong> Round the Pink Seeds and<br />
leptopus year<br />
cuttings<br />
4 Arrebidaea Arrebidaea January Purple Cuttings or<br />
magnifica and March crims<strong>on</strong> layering<br />
5 Nepal trumpet Beaum<strong>on</strong>tia Round the Purple Cutting sucker<br />
grandiflora year<br />
6 Waghnakhi Bign<strong>on</strong>ia<br />
gracillis<br />
All year White Cutting layering<br />
7 Bign<strong>on</strong>ia Bign<strong>on</strong>ia May, July White Cuttings and air<br />
linguisati<br />
layering<br />
8 Bougainvillea Bougainvillea July, Red Layering hard<br />
glabra<br />
September Purple<br />
orange<br />
wood cutting<br />
9 Velvet creeper Ch<strong>on</strong>emorpha October- Creamy Layer hard<br />
macrophylla November white wood cutting<br />
10 Clematis / Clematis September White Cutting / air<br />
Chameli panniculata – October<br />
layering<br />
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