Horticulture Essay

A. Horticulture in the history of Gardens

I. Introduction:

The evolution of horticulture and its history is typically related to the development of the agriculture but there is no evidence of when the horticulture was started. Horticulture is started for the pleasure of human and it also shows the dominance of human over nature. Initially, horticulture was done as agriculture, for the fulfillment of basic needs but later it is done more for pleasure and to show the wealth of people. In this paper, the evolution of horticulture and its history will be discussed more. The evolution of garden was from large-scale agriculture and forestry in Egypt for the first time.

What is Horticulture:

Horticulture is derived from the Latin word ‘Hortus’ which

The water from the river was used for the irrigation of agricultural land and the gardens. Besides the agricultural land, there was evidence of planting trees and shady trees. The Assyrians (10th to 7th centuries BC) left documentary evidence of the planting of trees, and on relief sculptures, pictures of gardens and fruit trees appear; one illustration seems to depict the manual pollination (Akroterion -2009). People in the Mesopotamia show the great interest in the tree for the palace gardening and they were for the matter of pleasant and imported from another country. Courtyard garden enclosed by a wall in all side was also seen in the history of Mesopotamia garden. Besides this palace garden is another type of garden in this area. Basically, there were two types of the

They were heavily planted with trees and.

2) Hunting parks: They were mostly enclosed park in a grid pattern with densely planted trees. They used the irrigation for plants. In hunting park, there were artificial hills with temples. The hunting park was mainly for the hunting purpose of wild animals.

They cultivated different types of crops, fruits like date palms, grapes, figs, melon, and vegetables like eggplants, onions, radishes, beans, lettuce, sesame seeds. They follow the symmetry in every aspect such as the agricultural production was also done in symmetry and in very regular form so that the irrigation for the crops and fruits would be easy. They started the cultivation by irrigating from the river for the fulfillment of foods later when they became richer they started as a matter of pleasure.

IV. Horticulture history in