PRINT | E-MAIL. In September of 1942, Lt. Col. William L. Plummer, with a handful of officers and enlisted men, made his way through the long pines and palmetto scrub of rural South Dade County to assume control of an isolated airstrip located about a mile inland from the shore of Biscayne Bay.
gardener. 1  a person who likes or is skilled at working in a garden. 2  a person whose occupation is making and tending gardens.
Botany is not necessarily about how to grow plants or maintain a garden. Those subjects are better described as horticulture. Botany is the study of plants in context of general science. It likely will seem more theoretical and less practical than horticulture. This course should, however, be of interest and use to anyone seriously pursuing a career in general biology or horticulture or agriculture or ecology.