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EFFECT OF HOLDING SOLUTIONS ON THE VASE LIFE OF CUT GERBERA (Gerbera jamesonii Hook.) FLOWERS

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Title EFFECT OF HOLDING SOLUTIONS ON THE VASE LIFE OF CUT GERBERA (Gerbera jamesonii Hook.) FLOWERS
 
Creator DIVY, H S
 
Contributor Raju, B
 
Subject Horticulture
 
Description Flower is the best medium to express all the sentiments of heart,
joy, happiness, sense of celebration, sorrow and how uniquely these
feelings are aired. The love for flowers is as old as human civilization.
Evidence of man’s love for flowers in India can be found in Rig Veda
(3000-2000 B.C.) and the Ramayana (1200-1000 B.C.), depiction of
flowers in murals, paintings and coins. Flowers have been traditionally
associated with beauty, grace and reverence, but with the change in
people’s lifestyle, their use and demand patterns changed. The
demand for modern flowers like rose, carnations, gerbera, gladiolus,
orchid, anthurium etc., is increasing both in domestic as well as global
market.
Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii Hook.) came into dictionary of
floriculture after it was discovered by pre-Linnean botanist,
Gronovious but it received its fortunate name in honour of German
naturalist, ‘Traugott Gerber’ who travelled in Russia in 1743. Gerbera
is an internationally important cut flower grown for its colourful,
showy and long lasting daisy like flowers. It is one of the nature’s
beautiful creations having beautiful flowers, exquisite shape, size and
bewitching colour. It is commonly known as “Transvaal daisy”,
“Barbeton daisy” or “African daisy”.
Gerbera belongs to the family Asteraceae and is considered to be
the native of South African and Asiatic regions. They are mostly found
to inhabit temperate and mountain regions. It is well distributed in
South Africa, Europe, Asia and Indonesia. About seven species
were recorded in India distributed in temperate Himalayas from
Kashmir to Nepal at an altitude of 1300 to 3200 meters. Gerberas can
be grown successfully both in plains and hills.
 
Date 2016-10-26T13:01:34Z
2016-10-26T13:01:34Z
2013-11-14
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier Th-10704
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/82123
 
Language en_US
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Bangalore