Fruit, Truck Experiment Station Grows into Horticulture Center

摘要

Established as the Fruit and Truck Experiment Station in January 1922, the LSU AgCenter's Hammond Research Station has served the needs of the strawberry and vegetable industries in Southeast Louisiana for more than 80 years. While continuing to servethe traditional strawberry and vegetable industries, the station has embarked on a new initiative to provide research and education for the green service industry. With more leisure time and changing social attitudes, people are increasingly interestedin improving the environments in which they live and work. Landscape horticulture (for professionals and consumers) is the science and art dedicated to enhancing peoples' lives through proper selection, growth, placement, care and use of plants in exterior surroundings.