People and Plants
People and Plants
There are many kinds of jobs for people who like to work with plants.
Botanists and other scientists study plants. They look for ways to grow better food plants, to make new things from plants, or to use plants to help cure diseases.
Foresters, gardeners, and other workers plant and care for the flowers and trees you see in parks and gardens and along city streets.
Florists arrange and sell beautiful flowers for special occasions. Growers make it possible for us to plant gardens.
And-many artists and photographers make pictures of plants for the books, magazines, and calendars we enjoy.
People who study plants
Do you ever wonder about plants, and how they live and grow? Have you ever taken a flower apart to see what was inside it? If you have wondered about, or done these things, maybe someday you’ll be a…
People who find new ways to use plants
Of course, you know that fruits, vegetables, rubber, string, and several kinds of cloth come from plants. But do you know that the clear, smooth cellophane that people sometimes wrap things in comes…
People who work with farm plants
If you had a sick pet, you would take it to an animal doctor called a veterinarian. And if you were a farmer with sick plants or poor soil, you would get help from a plant doctor called an…
People who work in forests
Wouldn’t it be fun to work in the woods? That’s what most foresters do. There are two kinds of foresters. Some foresters work for a government. They take care of national parks and forests so that…
