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Discover the origins, lore and meanings of botanical names with this lexicon of “pithy explanations of words that confront every plant tag reader” (The New York Times Book Review). For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to Bill Neal’s beautiful little book Gardener's Latin. 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. Learning to navigate the jungles of botanical Latin will not only make you an expert in identification, but also teach you a great deal about the plants themselves. Gardener's Latin leads you down the path from abbreviatus to zonatus, turning aside here and there to point out little-known horticultural facts and fables and the wisdom of gardeners from Virgil to Vita Sackville-West. Do you like your plants proceris (tall or long) or pumili (dwarf; low-growing; small)? Phoenicolasii (with purple hair) or pyriformes (shaped like a pear)? Does your vegetable garden favor esculenti (tasty; edible) plants, rather than emetici (vomit-causing) ones? Do you keep urticoides (nettle-like) plants out of the schoolyard garden, but tender the learning patch with anacanthi (thornless) seedlings? So don't plant a zibethinus (foul-smelling) or tragophyllus (having leaves with a goat-like odor) plant under your windowsill. Refer to this helpful, clear, and clever volume and all your gardening ventures will be simply mirabile (marvelous; astonishing).
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 of

gardeners from Virgil to Vita Sackville-West.

Gardener's Latin is a glossary of the Latin terms that appear on nursery tags and in gardening catalogs, and is filled with little-known facts and fables about plants and their names.

Author Neal has weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a glossary of the Latin terms that appear with increasing frequency on nursery tags and the pages of gardening catalogs. Includes garden lore and literature, such as why basil is the herb of dread and suspicion, and more. Over 2,500 entries. Two-color illustrations throughout.

A compilation of Latin terms that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers, with brief, clear definitions, and related lore which fills the margins of each page. Introduction by Barbara Damrosch. Beautifully produced--would make a lovely gift for any gardener. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR "Defines Latin terms used to describe and identify plants, and includes brief items of garden lore." -- Amazon.com viewed August 12, 2020