Geoecological Study on the Leading Production Area of Flowers and Vegetables and Mountain Cultivation of their Seedlings

山区种植花卉和蔬菜幼苗，如仙客来和草莓，有利于作物发芽，以接受早霜。低地的园艺农民在温室和乙烯基薄膜屋中种植它们，以便在冬季收获和出售产品，特别是圣诞节和元旦。因此，园艺农民在这类种植中享有很高的价格。本研究从地质生态学和农业地理学的观点出发，探讨花卉蔬菜大产区与山地育苗的关系。本研究以花卉蔬菜的主要产区--东京附近的琦玉县的高之寿司为研究对象，得出以下结论。(1)第二次世界大战后，蔬菜苗向城市居民的销售转移了花卉的种植。（2）通过参观、观赏东京先进的花卉生产区，逐步在该地区种植了花甘蓝、杜鹃花、仙客来等。（3）为了促进优质产品的早期销售和扩大规模，在栃木县的千条原、纪州山垦殖区和长野县的轻井泽，园艺农民进行了花苗的山地栽培。(4)在海拔1400米的Senjogahala，委托来自低地农民的种苗，农作物从草莓变成了花卉。草莓品种从丹纳到女峰的变化，以及低温冷藏苗木的流行减少了苗木的山地栽培。(5)随着花卉的专业化，园艺农民将水稻种植大规模地委托给少数农民。

Mountain cultivation of flower and vegetable seedlings such as cyclamen and strawberry, facilitates the germination of the crops in order to receive early frost. Horticultural farmers in lowland grow them in greenhouses and vinyl-sheet houses to harvest and sell the products in winter, especially for Christmas and New Year's Day. Thus, horticultural farmers enjoy high prices in this type of cultivation. The purpose of this study is to make clear the relations between big production area of flowers and vegetables and mountain cultivation of their seedlings from the geoecological and agricultural geographic viewpoints.Head Investigator studies the leading flower production area, Kounosushi in Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, and have the following results. (1) Marketing of the vegetable seedlings to urban dweller transferred the cultivation of flowers just after the World War II. (2)Flower cabbage, azaleas, cyclamen were gradually cultivated in the area by visiting and watching the advanced flower production area of Tokyo. (3)Horticultural farmers practice mountain cultivation of flower seedling at Senjogahara and Keichouzan reclamation settlements of Tochigi Prefecture and Karuizawa of Nagano Prefecture in order to promote the early marketing and enlargement of high quality production. (4) In Senjogahala, 1400 meters in altitude, entrusted the seedlings from lowland farmers, crops are changed from strawberry to flower. The change of strawberry varieties from Danner to Nyohou, and prevalence of seedling cooling storage at low temperature reduced the mountain cultivation of the seedlings. (5) With the specialization of flowers, horticultural farmers entrust the rice cultivation to a few farmers at large scale.