Floriculture Quiz 5 (30 MCQs)

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1. A garden center employee should
2. Which bouquet style would be best for a full wedding gown with a long train
3. By tradition, on Mother's Day, a ..... flower or corsage is worn by a daughter as a symbol of love and honor for a living mother, and ..... flowers are worn as a memorial for a mother who is no longer living.
4. Describes the products that are sold for cash and then immediately carried away by the customer.
5. Certain plants are quite suitable for use in terrariums. Which, if any, of the following are suitable for this use?
6. Which item is a floral piece worn by a man and typically worn on the right-side jacket lapel, near the buttonhole?
7. As a grower for a greenhouse production operation, you have decided to pre-plant incorporate a low rate of the slow-release fertilizer Osmocote 14-14-14 into your soil less root medium prior to potting up hanging baskets. You will grow the crop with typical application of soluble fertilizer, but you are adding in the low rate of slow-release fertilizer to provide some nutrition in the market channel and during the time that the customer is caring for the basket. You want tp mix just enough root medium to pot up 100-12-in hanging baskets (2.2 gal each).Conversion:202 gal per cubic yard
8. A greenhouse employee works
9. ..... is a specific propagation technique used with plants that produce bulbs or corms.
10. High or low fertility levels can ..... crop susceptibility to ..... and .....
11. Nitrogen deficiency, ammonium toxicity and phosphorus deficiency are some of the common reasons of ..... disorders in greenhouse crops.
12. The name of the person who developed the binomial system for naming plants is
13. Accented neutral, monochromatic, analogous, and split complementary are the most common ..... used by florists in designs.
14. Correcting high pH can be achieved by .....
15. Your greenhouse production business has a contract to grow 125 flats of bedding impatients to local landscaping contractor. Each flat has an 0804 cell pack insert. You will source the plugs from a greenhouse supplier, which offers the plugs in 288-size plug trays. Each plug tray is guaranteed to have 280 usable seedlings. What is the number of 288 plug trays of petunias that you must order to be able to grow the plants to meet this contract?
16. The art and science of growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants, and the designing and marketing of flower arrangements.
17. A poinsettia crop that is four weeks late in flowering for Christmas was very likely exposed to:
18. Roots that begin growth from the stem or a leaf, and not from the root tissue, are known as .....
19. The art and science of cultivating garden plants, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants.
20. A brown, water-holding material harvested from bogs that is made from aged, decomposed plant and animal matter.
21. Three jobs in horticulture that require outdoor work and that are done with hand-operated tools and equipment are
22. The larger the gauge of florist wire indicates that the thickness is:
23. The ..... orchid is the largest o the orchid types used by florists for corsages
24. ..... cuttings are taken from wood that has stopped actively growing and is dormant.
25. In the following list of pesticides the must be mixed with water to apply.
26. DIF is defined as:
27. A once living moss that comes from bogs and is harvested, dehydrated, and often compressed used to hold moisture and provide space for plant roots.
28. The formula for determining average daily temperature (ADT) is:
29. . Together the genus name and the ..... form the scientific name of a species.
30. Foliage below the water line should be removed to: