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  2. Fruit carving - Wikipedia

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    Fruit carving is included in Matthias Giegher's 1621 work Il Trinciante ("The Carver"), where he describes carving oranges and citrons into abstract patterns, shell-fish, four-legged animals and the Habsburgs' double-headed eagle, but the art was not common in Europe or North America until the 1980s when several books on the topic were published.

  3. Cut flowers - Wikipedia

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    Plants used for cut flowers and cut greens are derived from many plant species and diverse plant families. Cut flower arrangements can include cut stems from annual plants, flower bulbs or herbaceous perennials, cut stems of evergreens or colored leaves, flowers from landscape shrubs, flowers that have been dried or preserved, fruit on tree branches, dried uniquely shaped fruit or stems from ...

  4. Vegetable carving - Wikipedia

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    Vegetable and fruit carving may have originated in Thailand during the Loi Krathong festival in the 14th century. During Loi Krathong, rafts are decorated with many objects, including banana leaves and flowers. In 1364, one of King Phra Ruang's servants, Nang Noppamart, wanted to create a unique decoration for her raft.

  5. Forcing (horticulture) - Wikipedia

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    Forcing is the horticultural practice of bringing a cultivated plant into active growth outside of its natural growing season. Plants do not produce new growth or flowers (and hence fruit) during the winter, and many species only produce flowers or fruit for a very limited period.

  6. Thai fruit carving - Wikipedia

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    Carving fruits and vegetables was a skill taught to women in the Thai royal palace. One (now known to be apocryphal) legend holds that sometime before the Sukhothai era (Thai era from 1808 to 1824), a concubine named either Nang Nopphamat (Thai Peerage; Thai: นางนพมาศ) or Thao Srichulalak (another name of Thai peerage; Thai: ท้าวศรีจุฬาลักษณ์ ...

  7. Horticulture - Wikipedia

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    Horticulture is the art and science of growing ornamental plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees and shrubs. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and more controlled scale than agronomy .