Landscaping teksingh chandravanshi
- 1. INDIRA GANDHI KRISHI VISHWAVIDALAYA
Assignment on
Trees: selection, propagation, planting schemes, canopy management
Course name – Landscaping
Course code – AHFL - 5311
Course credit – 3 (2+1)
Session – 2022 – 23
Teksingh chandravanshi
B.Sc.(Ag.) 3rd year 1st sem.
S.K. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE & RESEARCH STATION KAWARDHA (C.G)
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TREE :-
Definition : Plants having single hardwood trunk and grow with
minimum height of 6 feet are known as tree.
Uses: -
• Beautification : I) Flower – Cassia, Jacaranda
Ii) Foliage – Casuarina, Kusum
• Wind-breaks : Casuarina, Eucalyptus
• Shade : Rain tree
• Architecturally : Wall – Casuarina, Roof – Rain Tree
• Medicinal : Margosa / Azadirecta indica , Jamun , Ashok/
Saraca Indica.
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• Protection : Erythrina, Amli
• Food : Moringa, Syzynium, Tamarind, Aonla
• Fodder : Gliricidia, Subabul, Erythrina.
• Wood : Teak, Dalbergia Sissoo
• Pollution Control : Peltophorum, Neem, Spathodia
Propagation: -
• Cutting : Ficus, Erythrina, Gliricidia
• Root sucker : Butea monospermum, Spathodia, Milintonia hortensis
• Layering : Jamun
• Grafting : Aonla, Citrus
• Seed : most of the plants
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Planting Scheme:-
Requirement of Temperature
▪ Tropical :- Mango, Sapota, jack fruit etc.
▪ Sub-Tropical :- Casuarina, litchi, Citrus,etc.
▪ Temperate :- Apple, Deodur, Pine, popular, Cypress Chestnut,
Silver Oak, etc.
Flowering :
• Flowering – Gulmohar, Peltophorum, Spathodea, Cassia,
Bauhinia, Jacaranda, Erythrina , cordia.
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• Foliage – Neem, Ficus, Rain tree, Eucalyptus, Casurina, Ashok,
Teak, Kusum.
• Fruit Bearing – Seeedling mango, Tamarind, Jamun, Mulberry,
Palm.
Height: -
• Dwarf – 2 to 6m: Plumeria, Cordia, borsalli, Erythrina, Ficus
panda, Bauhinia.
• Medium – 6m to 12m: Gulmahor, Acasia, Paltopharum, delberzia
sisso.
• Tall – more than 12m: Casurina, Deoder, teak,silver Oak,
Eucalyptus,Parkia.
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Type of canopy
Round : - Mango, Acassia nilotica, Peltophorum,mahudo
Oval :- Bakul, Jamun, Ashoka
Columnar :- Eucalyptus, Casuarina,Silver Oak, Pendula
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Umbrella :- Rain Tree, Gulmahor,Cassia nodosa, karanj.
Pyramidal :- Chrismas Tree, Pines, Deodar
Weeping :- Weeping Willow, Bottle Brush, Ficus nitida
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Spreading :- Palms- Royal, Date, Areca, Fishtail, Coconut, etc.
Irregular :- Butea monosperma, Tree branch break by wind