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Dictionary: ar·bo·ri·cul·ture   (är'bər-ĭ-kŭl'chər, är-bôr'ĭ-, -bōr'-) pronunciation
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n.
The planting and care of woody plants, especially trees.

arboricultural ar'bo·ri·cul'tur·al adj.

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: arboriculture
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Cultivation of trees, shrubs, and woody plants for shading and decorating. Arboriculture includes all aspects of growing, maintaining, and identifying plants, arranging plantings for their ornamental values, and removing trees. The well-being of individual plants is the major concern of arboriculture, in contrast to such related fields as forestry and agriculture, in which the major concern is the welfare of a large group of plants as a whole.

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Sci-Tech Encyclopedia: Arboriculture
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A branch of horticulture concerned with the selection, planting, and care of woody perennial plants. Knowing the potential form and size of plants is essential to effective landscape planning as well as to the care needed for plants. Arborists are concerned primarily with trees since they become large, are long-lived, and dominate landscapes both visually and functionally.

Plants can provide privacy, define space, and progressively reveal vistas; they can be used to reduce glare, direct traffic, reduce soil erosion, filter air, and attenuate noise; and they can be positioned so as to modify the intensity and direction of wind. They also influence the microclimate by evaporative cooling and interception of the Sun's rays, as well as by reflection and reradiation. Certain plants, however, can cause human irritations with their pollen, leaf pubescence, toxic sap, and strong fragrances from flowers and fruit. Additionally, trees can be dangerous and costly: branches can fall, and roots can clog sewers and break paving. See also Landscape architecture.

Gardener's Dictionary: arboriculture
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The art of growing and cultivating ornamental trees.

Wikipedia: Arboriculture
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An arborist examining a Japanese Hemlock at Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon.
A tree surgeon using a chainsaw to fell a eucalyptus tree in a park at Kallista, Victoria.

Arboriculture (pronounced /ˈɑrbərɨkʌltʃər/) is the cultivation and management of trees within the landscape. This includes the study of how trees grow and respond to cultural practices and the environment, as well as application of cultural techniques such as selection, planting, care, surgery and removal.

The main focus of arboriculture is amenity trees; such trees are maintained primarily for landscape purposes for the benefit of human beings. Amenity trees are usually in gardens, parks or urban settings, and arboriculture involves aspects of plant health, pest and pathogen control, risk management, and aesthetic considerations. Trees offer cultural and natural heritage benefits beyond production of wood products; for this reason, arboriculture needs to be distinguished from forestry, which is the commercial production and use of timber and other forest products from plantations and forests.

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  • Harris, Richard W. (1983). Arboriculture: Care of Trees, Shrubs, and Vines in the Landscape. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. pp. 2–3. ISBN 0-13-043935-5. 
  • "arboriculture". Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Merriam-Webster. 
  • "arboriculture". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2007. 
  • "arboriculture". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Online. Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000. 
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