Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored by Lorraine Harrison Over and Under 7” x 7” x 2”

7” x 7” x 2”

Everybody Always

The world is quiet and shadowy

a fantastic collection of words without English counterparts

illustrator of Windows

Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored by Lorraine Harrison Over and Under 7” x 7” x 2”Since Latin became the standard language for plant naming in the eighteenth century, it has been intrinsically linked with botany. And while mastery of the classical language may not be a prerequisite for tending perennials, all gardeners stand to benefit from learning a bit of Latin and its conventions in the field. Without it, they might buy a Hellebores foetidus and be unprepared for its fetid smell, or a Potentilla reptans with the expectation