ISHS Acta Horticulturae 301: IV International Symposium on Processing Tomatoes
THE WORLDWIDE TREND FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENTISTS — A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VEGETABLES FOR PROCESSING |
| Author: | C. A. M. Portas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract:
The International Horticulture Congresses started in 1864 (Table 1) without any international body as organizer. Just the common initiative of some national horticultural societies. Belgians beginning, followed by the Dutch. And 17 meetings were successively held. Between Congresses there was an inter-Congresses Commission elected at each meeting to prepare the following, callled International Committee for Horticultural Congresses. However, "horticulture" had always been refered to in the broader sense and let us remember its semantics. This broader meaning started in the XVI–XVII centuries in the first printed books of Central and Northern Europe and is followed today by the International Society for Horticultural Science as by the main scientific horticultural societies of the world (in Brasil, Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain, U.K., U.S.A. etc.) So, the comprehension of the "horticulture" concept is the whole of cropping techniques related to Fruit Crops and Grapes, Vegetable Crops, Ornamental Plants and Aromatic and Medicinal Plants. As a matter of fact this meaning of horticulture initiates in Anglo-Saxon influenced countries (including Germany) and later on, sometimes not until this century, was extended to the Latin countries where tradionally horticulture refered only to Vegetables plus Ornamentals. TABLE 1 INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL CONGRESSES IHC
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