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Horticulture involves six areas of study. These areas are floriculture (includes production and marketing of floral crops), landscape horticulture (includes production, marketing and maintenance of landscape plants), olericulture (includes production and marketing of vegetables), pomology (includes production and marketing of fruits), postharvest physiology (involves maintaining quality and preventing spoilage of horticultural crops), and Arboriculture the study and selection, planting, care, and removal of individual trees, shrubs, vines, and other perennial woody plants. (Wikipedia June 2007)