Resource Book on Horticulture Nursery Management

ornamental plant nursery can produce various plants like flowers plants, indoor and
outdoor plants, flowering tree seedlings, flowering shrubs, and flowering creepers
for various customers generally in urban centers, cities and townships especially for
bungalows, establishments and institutes. The ornamental nursery supplies plants for
landscaping of the terrain. This nursery also includes production and supply of
different lawns and grasses for beautification purposes.
3. Flowering Forest Tree Nursery: Various flowering forest trees are produced in
nursery. The forest nurseries have a mandate of production of various forest trees for
afforestation program in reserve areas. Most of these plants are not available for sale
from forest department. However some flowering tree plants are in great demand in
urban development areas and townships. These flowering trees are also used for
avenue plantation on the sides of roads and pathways.
4. Vegetable Nursery: There is huge demand of vegetable seedlings during kharif,
rabbi and summer season. Most of the farmers prefer planting readily available
hybrid seedlings of various crops like chilli, brinjal, tomato, capsicum, marigold etc.
The readymade seedling for transplantation saves time and labour for the vegetable
growers. Most of the vegetables seedlings are made available to farmers during the
growing season. The vegetables seedlings are grown in propagation trays by the
vegetable nurserymen for the farmers. The vegetable seedlings require from 18 days
to 40 days time for preparation of seedlings for supply to the farmers.
5. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Nursery: There is increasing awareness regarding
advantages of use of various medicinal and aromatic plants. These plants are in huge
demand from various growers who produce medicinal or aromatic plants for
different pharmaceutical industry. The Aloe vera, sarpagandha, ashwagandha,
Asparagus, adulsa, Vinca rosea, senna, Bacopa monieri, aonla, hirda, behda, safed
musali, mint, Basil, Citronella, lemongrass, khus etc are important medicinal and
aromatic crops which are processed for their medicinal and aromatic value. Many
plants like mint, citronella, lemongrass, safed musali are grown as commercial
plantation by the farmers. Such medicinal and aromatic plants are traded for their
high value oils and tuber powder.
6. Wholesale and Retail Nurseries: The wholesale nurseries prepare seedlings and
grafts of various ornamentals and fruit plants on large scale and are supply them to
different small retailer nurseries. Such retail nurseries procure these plants from the
wholesale nurseries in bulk quantities.
7. Plant Tissue Culture and Secondary Hardening Nurseries: The production tissue
culture plant is called micropropagation. Most of the tissue culture plants are highly
sensitive to environmental stress and different diseases and pests. Such plants are
therefore required to be hardened in shade net house conditions before they are
planted in the field. The rearing of such tissue culture plants at secondary stage is
called Hardening and the nurseries undertaking such hardening of tissue culture
plants at secondary stage before plantation are called Secondary Hardening
Nurseries. It is an important source of employment for entrepreneurs.
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