Consumer preferences for price, color harmony, and care information of container gardens

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 380-384

  Mason, Shannon C ^a   Starman, Terri W ^a,c   Lineberger, R D ^a,d   Behe, Bridget K ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Floriculture ^*

^d Aggie Horticulture Network

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Container gardening; Internet survey; Likert scale; Web survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149114628     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.2.380     Document Type: Article

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