Horticulture is the science of what?

• A. Science of fruits and vegetables
• B. Science of animals
• C. Science of soils
• D. Science of flowers

Answer: (A)

Horticulture focuses on growing and taking care of cultivated plants for human use, especially edible crops. It covers how to select, propagate, and manage crops to produce fruits and vegetables efficiently, including production systems, pests, irrigation, harvesting, and post-harvest handling. Among the options, fruits and vegetables best represent the practical scope of horticulture as a field dedicated to producing food crops. The other choices point to related areas—animals are studied in animal sciences, soils in soil science, and flowers relate to ornamental or floricultural topics—but they do not define horticulture as a whole.