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Gardener's Latin: a lexicon

By Neal , Bill;Barbara Damrosch

Book information

Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN
1565123840, 9781565123847, 9781565127432, 9780945575948, 0945575947
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9918951 bytes)
Edition
1st pbk. ed
Pages
vii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a volume of select, brief, clear definitions.Gardener's Latin leads us down the path from abbreviatus to zonatus, turning aside here and there along the way for little-known horticultural facts and fables and the wisdom ofgardeners from Virgil to Vita Sackville-West.

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