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Floriculture has emerged as an immense entrepreneurial opportunities for small and marginal farmers and a way forward to earn foreign exchange. With the increase demand of flowers, floriculture has become one of the important commercial trades and has emerged as hightech activity taking place under controlled environment inside greenhouses. Indian floriculture is now viewed as a high growth dynamic industry. The liberalisation of industrial and trade policies paved the way for development of export oriented floriculture. Flower consumption growth raises up to 30 per cent per annum and numerous festivals, along with increasing modernization and per capita income make India a floral super power of the future. Imports and exports of floriculture products from all round the world are increasing year by year because industry professionals in India are always seeking new products, techniques and services that are effective and economic. As a result, floriculture trade is flourishing and many research centres and species nurseries have turned into a promising business. The present set on 'Production Technology of Commercial Flowers' in 2 volumes is planned in 20 interesting chapters vividly highlighting global and Indian floriculture industry, commercial cut flowers, commercial loose flowers, annuals for cut flowers, annuals for dry flowers, annuals for pot culture in greenhouse, flowering shrubs for pot culture, ornamental shrubs for cut flowers, herbaceous perennial flowering plants for pot culture, herbaceous perennials for cut flowers, climbers for pot culture, bulbous ornamental for pot culture, orchids for pot culture, dye yielding ornamental plants, medicinal flowers, aromatic ornamentals, edible flowers, aquatic ornamental plants, hanging basket, window box and aquarium plants and lesser known ornamentals for cut flowers. It may be humbly claimed that this is the first most comprehensive book of its kind on Commercial Floriculture. The book will be useful to teachers, students, scientists, nurserymen, landscape designers, planners, amateur and professional gardeners, florists and above all progressive flower growers.