floriculture
Example Sentences
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The California Cut Flower Commission has told its members that floriculture is protected under the agricultural exemption to closure orders.
From Los Angeles Times
The closure of garden centres and florists, the cancellation of shipments and the banning of horticultural auctions has posed an existential threat to large parts of the Dutch floriculture industry, the world’s largest.
From The Guardian
Canada’s greenhouse, nursery and floriculture sectors employ 16% of all workers in Canadian agriculture.
From Reuters
All sentiment aside, flowers are big business, and spring is high season for the floriculture industry, largely driven by Mother’s Day and the traditional wedding season.
From Seattle Times
Those crops are defined as fruits and tree nuts; vegetables; culinary herbs, spices, medicinal plants; nursery, floriculture, horticulture, Christmas trees; honey, hops, maple syrup; and mushrooms.
From Washington Times
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