抄録
Researchers of traditional nursery areas in the suburbs of metropolitan areas have reported that these areas are changing because of recent urbanization. In particular, the number of the nurseryman who pursues gardening as a side business increased in order to obtain more income. Although a few researchers have reported gardeners who pursues nurserywork as a side business, no one has get reported specialist gardeners.
But, there are many gardeners who are not experienced in growing garden plants. Essentially, the gardener exists in the boundary territory between agricurture and the service industry, while the work of the nurseryman is agricultural. And, in the distribution system, the gardener takes a middle position between the nurseryman and consumers. So, we can't investigate gardeners as a subset of the tree-planting indusury using only the approach of the traditional nursery area.
In this report we take up the gardening industry within the tree-planting industry, and investigate three problems in the Takayasu District and Ukyo-ku: 1) the formation process of gardening industry in both areas, 2) the change in distribution of gardener's offices and nurseries, 3) the production structure of the gardening industry.
We have got the following results: 1) In Takayasu, some farmers started gardening as a side job in the Meiji Era, and the gardening industry has grown ever since owing to housing booms. In Ukyo-ku, gardeners appeared in the Heian Period, and the gardening industry has grown ever since because of temples and shrines. 2) The scale of agricultural land per gardener is small, and gardeners depend on distributors and agricultural lands that have gone out of use, because of recent urbanization. 3) The Earnings rate of the gardening industry is high, and many gardeners are engaged in not only landscape gardening but planning and maintaining of gardens. One of the reasons that the gardening industry exists in the suburbs of the metropolis is the high earnings rate.
