Horticulture

Scope: This guide contains information on resources related to horticulture. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather a guide to some selected resources. For information on related topics, readers should consult the guides on Agriculture, Botany, Maryland's Environment (archival resources), and Wetlands and Water Quality. Email the subject area specialist at daustin (@umd.edu) or call (301)314-0014 for more information.

Table of Contents

• Internet Sites
• Databases
• Print Resources
• University of Maryland Programs

• American Horticultural Society [http://www.ahs.org/]
  Publications of the AHS [http://www.ahs.org/publications/index.htm]

• American Community Gardening Association[http://communitygarden.org/]

• American Phtyopathological Society [APSNet], Plant pathology/disease information.[http://www.apsnet.org/]

• American Society for Horticultural Science[http://www.ashs.org/]

• Floriculture.com, this site has a feature that searches through extension publications, university sites, government sites, and other sites for information. The site also has reports, a plant library, product information and more. [http://www.floriculture.com/cgi-shl/$Webdbc.exe/model/nextid/htx/&/floriculture/home.htx]

• Garden Web Glossary, "currently contains 4400 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture and is regularly updated."[http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/]

• Horticulture Hot Links, from Cornell University. [http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/hlinks.html]

• Horticulture in Virtual Perspective, [http://hcs.osu.edu] from Ohio State University.

• Horticulture Research International[http://www.hridir.org/]

• Horticulture Society of Maryland, contains information on local lectures, trips, workshops, special events, news and more. [http://www.mdhorticulture.org/]

• Horticultural Web, has product information and a database linking to related sites and a horticulture plant library. [http://www.horticulture.com/cgi-shl/$Webdbc.exe/model/nextid/htx/&/horticulture/home.htx]

• Internet Directory for Botany, index to botanical information on the web. http://www.botany.net/IDB/

• Maryland Cooperative Extension Home and Garden Center [http://www.hgic.umd.edu/]

• NatureServe, "a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada." [http://www.natureserve.org/]

• NewCrop, "NewCROP (New Crops Resource Online Program) is an information-rich site related to crop plants. It is a project of the Purdue University Center for New Crops and Plant Products and is associated with the New Crop Diversification project and the Jefferson Institute." http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/

• Plant Facts, from OSU. It contains photos of various plants and pests as well as fruits, vegetables and turf. [http://plantfacts.osu.edu/images.lasso]

• Something to grow on, nutrient management information from Cornell's extension. [http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/faculty/good/growon/index.html]

• Plant Gene Register, "An Electronic publication for articles describing the isolation and DNA sequence determination of plant genes." [http://www.tarweed.com/pgr/index.html]

• Plant Patents Information, from USPTO [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/plant/]

• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service[http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp]

• WWW Virtual Library: Gardening[http://www.gardenweb.com/vl/]

Horticulture Science Databases

• Agricola UM only

• CAB Abstracts UM only

• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts UM only

• Plant Science UM only

• Science Citation Index UM only

• NCBI Taxonomy Database

• Plant Management Network [PMN]

• USDA PLANTS National Database

Print Resources

Flora : an illustrated history of the garden flower, Brent Elliott with a preface by Sir Simon Hornby. 2001
LOCATION: UMCP McKeldin Library Folio
CALL NUMBER: SB4045 .E44 2001

New! Specialty cut flowers : the production of annuals, perennials, bulbs, and woody plants for fresh and dried cut flowers
LOCATION: McKeldin Library Stacks
CALL NUMBER: SB405 .A68 2003

Dictionary of horticulture / the National Gardening Association ; produced by the Philip Lief Group, Inc. 1996
LOCATION: McKeldin Library Reference
CALL NUMBER: SB317.58 .D53 1994

Index of Garden Plants. Timber Press, 1994.
LOCATION: McKeldin Reference Stacks
CALL NUMBER: SB407 .G77 1994

Greenhouse Operation and Management. Prentice Hall, 2003.
LOCATION: McKeldin Library Stacks
CALL NUMBER: SB415 .N44 2003

To locate more books and other print resources in the UM Libraries, use the Catalog.

University of Maryland Horticulture Programs and Courses