This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) growing nursery products, nursery stock, shrubbery, bulbs, fruit stock, sod, and so forth, under cover or in open fields and/or (2) growing short rotation woody trees with a growth and harvest cycle of 10 years or less for pulp or tree stock.
Growing vegetable and melon bedding plants--are classified in Industry 11121, Vegetable and Melon Farming; Operating timber tracts (i.e., growing cycle greater than 10 years)--are classified in Industry 113110, Timber Tract Operations; Retailing nursery, tree stock, and floriculture products primarily purchased from others--are classified in Industry 444240, Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers; Merchant wholesale distribution of plant seeds and plant bulbs primarily purchased from others--are classified in Industry 424910, Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; and Merchant wholesale distribution of nursery stock (except seeds and plant bulbs) primarily purchased from others--are classified in Industry 424930, Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers.