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Horticultural Science
Program Facilities

The Jack M. Berry Citrus Building is the home of our Horticultural Science program, with classrooms, laboratories, a student study room/library and faculty/staff offices.

Our greenhouse facility includes 6 large greenhouses, a two-story air-conditioned teaching lab and work area, and a fenced outdoor nursery area. The greenhouses are fully automated, with computer-controlled shade cloth, vents, blackcloth, lights, irrigation (with fertilizer injection) evaporative cooling, and heating.

Much of the landscape on the FSC campus consists of the citrus arboretum -- a collection of more than 80 varieties of citrus, including all of the commercial scion and rootstock varieties used in Florida. This collection provides a living laboratory for our production-related classes.

Rose Gardens. We maintain two large rose gardens on the campus, which are used in horticulture laboratory sessions, to teach pruning, fertilizing, propagation by cuttings and grafting, scouting for pests and diseases, etc. The gardens also house our collection of plants which have been cured of rose mosaic virus disease. Virus-free propagating material from this collection is made available to the nursery industry, world-wide.