Floriculture Exam 4

If a customer you are serving has a complaint, the first thing that you should do is:

• Write down his/her name and address

• Listen very carefully

• Ask the customer to wait while you check on what to do

• Refer it to your supervisor

Which of the following is NOT important for a floral designer to ask when designing arrangements for a specific room?

• What size is the room?

• What is the ceiling height?

• What percent of the budget does the room cost?

• How many tables will there be?

Nosegay originated during which period in the history of floral design:

• English-Georgian

• Baroque

• Renaissance

• Victorian

___________ play a powerful role in advertising floral shops and in most locations leads all other media in sales return for dollar spent

• Newspapers

• Window displays

• Radio spots

• Telephone sales

An explant is:

• Weed

• Dead plant

• Plant produced from a leaf

• Plant produced from a tissue (meristem)

Flower stems should be cut approximately at a ____________ angle

• 45 degree

• 180 degree

• 90 degree

• None of the above

Plant texture is determined by ___________

• both foliage density and plant shape

• foliage density

• plant shape

• the way the leaf feels to the touch

Fertilizer that you add to your flowering plants contains the following elements in the correct order

• Nitrogen, phosphorous, iron

• Nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium

• Potassium, nitrogen, iron

• Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous

The most imporant cut flower crops in the US are:

• Mum, rose, carnation

• Carnation, rose, orchid

• Gladiolus, orchids, gardenia

• Rose, snapdragon, gladiolus

Which of the following is NOT a primary principle of design:

• Proportion

• Accent

• Dominance

• Rhythm