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Plant Connections Leader's Guide1

Janice Easton and Deborah J. Glauer2

Plant Connections Leader's Guide (4H PSL 21) is aimed at educating youth about the basics of horticulture. Youth will be exposed to information on plants and the plant kingdom. Topics include: what is a plant, why are plants important, what makes plants grow, how to grow plants, and how to select and handle plants. The members manual (4H PSM 11) is used inconjunction with this leader's guide.

In EDIS this publication is DLN 4H 192.

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Footnotes

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This document is 4HPSL21, one of a series of the 4-H Youth Development Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date May 1997. Revised January 2009. Reviewed May 2012. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

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Janice Easton, Alachua County Extension Service, and Deborah J. Glauer, Extension Youth Development Specialist and Plant Science Design Team Leader, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences. Additional assistance was provided by Christy Poole and Lynne Schreiber, project assistants.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, Dean.