Floriculture is one of the branches of agriculture. Indian commercial flower industry has the potential to become the leading flower industry of Floriculture Worldwide. This Specialized food and ornamental plant production business are grouped together in the known as horticulture. Ornamental horticulture more appropriately of flower and ornamental plant production and Landscaping.

This book deals with cultivation, marketing and arranging of flowers and foliage plants. The present book has been designed to meet out the requirements of a commercial flower grower that includes production of cut flowers, foliage potted plants, bedding plant and growing and forcing bulbs and corms of flowering plants for wholesale and retail sales. The floriculture industry has become highly specialized as the floriculturist has to use many manipulative devices to see that there is a steady supply of flowers and foliage plants irrespective of seasons and minimum loss to the industry because of perishable nature of flowers.