Propagation of Ornamental Plants

Subject 207-293 (2008)

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Credit Points: 12.500
Level: Undergraduate
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

Semester 1, - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable


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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: Twenty-four hours of lectures, 24 hours of tutorials/practical sessions
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites: 207-155 Horticultural Practice II
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Coordinator

Mr Brian Shields
Subject Overview:

This subject will describe a range of propagation methods for ornamental and cultivated plants. Students will apply specific plant propagation methods and techniques for the multiplication of cultivated plants in containers and field environments. Content includes principles and practices of propagating plants by seed, cuttings, grafting, division, layering and micro-propagation.

Assessment: One two-hour written examination (40%), two written assignments equivalent to 5000 words 60% (one due mid-semester, one at the end of the semester).
Prescribed Texts: None
Recommended Texts:

  • Growing Media for Ornamental Plants and Turf (K A Handreck and N D Black), 3rd edn, NSW University Press, 2002
  • Hartmann and Kester's Plant Propagation Principles and Practices (H T Hartmann, D E Kester, F Davies and R L Geneve), 7th edn, Prentice-Hall Inc, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2002
Breadth Options: This subject is a level 2 or level 3 subject and is not available to new generation degree students as a breadth option in 2008.
This subject or an equivalent will be available as breadth in the future.
Breadth subjects are currently being developed and these existing subject details can be used as guide to the type of options that might be available.
2009 subjects to be offered as breadth will be finalised before re-enrolment for 2009 starts in early October.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:

Information Not Available
Related Course(s): Associate Degree in Environmental Horticulture

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