Offers gardeners and horticulturists a listing of the botanical names of nearly six thousand plants

Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners: A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of Some Cultivated Plants

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

William T. Stearn

Gardening & Landscape Design

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Professor Stearn gives the meaning and origin of some 6,000 botanical names, selecting those most likely to be encountered by gardeners and horticulturists. No other single source provides so much etymological information for the gardener, much of it out of the way, all of it enlightened by a wealth of detail, the result of years of scholarship and original research. Also listed are 3,000 of the most widely accepted vernacular names, cross-indexed to their correct botanical names. Both the dictionary sections are prefaced by introductions: plant classification and binomial nomenclature are explained, and there are notes on the structure and pronunction of botanical Latin. There are also extensive bibliographies.

Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners : A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of Some Cultivated Plants

Reference

Cassell

First published in 1966, this is a guide to aspects of Latin usage in the botanical field and is a source of information for gardeners, botanists, scientific historians, systematic etymologists and classical scholars. Now in its fourth edition, it summarizes the grammar and syntax and covers the roots and origins of Latin and latinized geographical names, colour terms, symbols and abbreviations, diagnoses and descriptions, the formation of names and epithets, and more.

Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology and vocabulary

Words, Language & Grammar

David&Charles

Plant Portraits from the "Flora Danica", 1761-69

Mendip Press

Revised and enlarged by Professor W.T. Stearn, this major work first published in 1950 is still considered the classic book on the subject. It provides a survey of the development of botanical illustration from palaeolithic times to th highly scientific works of today.

The Art of Botanical Illustration

Arts & Photography

Wilfrid Blunt

Graphic Design

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