The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the landscape services occupation. Depending on the preparation and abilities of the individual student, he may enter the landscape area as (1) nursery worker, (2) landscape planter, (3) landscape maintenance worker, or (4) as a landscape designer or consultant. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Twenty-three duties are broken down into a number of tasks and for each task a table is presented, showing: tools, equipment, materials, objects acted upon; performance knowledge; safety--hazard; science; math--number systems; and communications. The duties include: mowing, renovating and establishing lawns; fertilizing, pruning, watering and mulching landscape plants; edging landscape beds; removing leaves, preventing winter damage, and controlling disease, weeds, and insects in landscape plantings; maintaining small engines, equipment, and hand tools; balling and burlapping trees and shrubs; wrapping, guying, and staking trees; caring for wounds on woody plant materials; preparing a planting bed; applying fertilizer and lime; and planting hedges, screens, ground covers, and trees. (BP)